Patients will not feel pain during surgery so will not die of shock. Doctors are now able to dig deeper into the patients body and perform complicated surgery.
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What new developments did this lead to?
The inhaler to regulate dosage was invented by Snow (technology). Surgeons skills improved to cope with the new procedures they could do
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What opposition was there?
Hannah Greener died from it and people thought chloroform had caused this. God said child birth should be painful.
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What was previously used and what was bad with it?
Ether. Made patients vomit, irritated lungs, highly flammable
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What were the disadvantages of chloroform?
affected the heart so some young and healthy people died, difficult to get the dosage right, effects remained in the body for some time after administration, could not tell if the person was still alive
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