Citation

O'Connell P. The Chicago medical journal and examiner 1879; 39(4): 379-382.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1879)

DOI

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PMID

37617428

PMCID

PMC9842285

Abstract

On Thursday evening, August 14, 1879, R. S.. aged 27, single, spare habit, and healthy, purchased a fluid ounce of chloroform. For a few weeks previous he had been despondent, and drank rather freely of both alcohol and absinthe. In three letters, pronounced to be in his handwriting, to as many different persons, he expressed a determination to commit suicide. It is not known what use he made of the chloroform. He is supposed to have taken it internally

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