The foregoing cases comprise all the instances I have seen recorded in which death appears to have been occasioned by the administration of chloroform, and not by other causes in operation about the same time. A few additional cases have indeed been referred to by different authors where death was probably caused by chloroform, but as I do not find that the details have been published, I cannot make them available in an inquiry respecting the cause and prevention of these accidents. In June 1852, Dr. Simpson alluded in the following terms to an accident from chloroform which had occurred near Glasgow:—“In this instance, chloroform was given by the practitioner for tooth extraction; but, I am sorry to add, none of the parties present were at the time in a condition to give any satisfactory evidence.”[125] A person, named Breton, a dealer in porcelain, died in Paris, in the early part of 1853, immediately after a few inspirations of chloroform, which was administered with the intention of removing a tumour of the cheek. An action was brought against Dr. Triquet and M. Masson for causing death by imprudence in this case; and at the trial which ensued, various interesting opinions were given, and the accused practitioners were ultimately exonerated.[126] I have not, however, met with any record of the symptoms which occurred in the case. In relating the case of death from chloroform, which occurred in his practice, to the Medical and Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, Dr. Roberts referred to another death from chloroform in tooth-drawing which took place in the neighbourhood from which his own patient came, just previously to October 1855; but I have not met with any account of the case so alluded to. Dr. Mackenzie of Kelso also alluded in the same Society, in the following year, to a death from chloroform which had occurred at Coldstream, and I do not know whether this was the case to which Dr. Roberts had alluded, or a fresh one. One of the surgeons to the hospital at St. Louis, who was lately visiting the medical institutions of London, informed me that there had been three deaths from chloroform at his hospital out of between six and seven hundred operations in which it had been administered. I did not learn the particulars of those fatal cases. There have been several cases in which persons have been found dead after inhaling chloroform when no one else was present, either for toothache or some other affection, but I have not included such cases in the above list, as they throw no light on the way in which death is occasioned. The simple way to avoid such accidents as those just alluded to, is for persons to abstain from inhaling chloroform, when no one is by to watch its effects. ALLEGED FATAL CASES OF INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM.