On certain physical and chemical properties of solutions of chloroform in water, saline, serum, and hæmoglobin. A contribution to the chemistry of Anæsthesia.—(Preliminary communication.)

Abstract

Abstract The number of substances which have been shown to possess more or less well-marked anæsthetising properties reaches some hundreds, and hence it is obvious that the action cannot have a different explanation in each case, but rather depends upon some general type of interaction between the anaesthetic and the active part of the cell, which is the cell-protoplasm.