Several deaths have been attributed to chloroform which were due to other causes, or where the cause of death is a subject of great doubt. A gentleman, named Walter Badger, twenty-two years of age, the son of one of the coroners for the county of York, died instantly at Mr. Robinson’s, the dentist’s, in Gower Street, on June 30th, 1848, whilst commencing to inhale chloroform with the intention of having some teeth extracted. The inhaler employed consisted of a face-piece to enclose the mouth and nostrils, and containing a sponge on which the chloroform (ʒiss) was placed. This, according to the evidence of Mr. Robinson and his female servant, who was present in the room, was held not nearer than an inch and a half from the face for less than a minute, and the patient made the remark that the chloroform was not strong enough; Mr. Robinson requested him, as he had done before, to have the operation performed without chloroform, but he again declined; and Mr. Robinson then took away the face-piece and asked his servant to reach the bottle, intending to put more chloroform on the sponge, to replace that which he believed had been lost by evaporation. Just after removing the face-piece, and before any fresh chloroform was poured out, the head and hand of the patient dropped, and he did not show any further sign of life. I found, on making trial of the kind of inhaler which Mr. Robinson employed, that it is impossible to inhale enough of the vapour to produce any appreciable effect, unless it is applied so as to touch the face. At the distance of an inch no effect is produced, even in five or ten minutes; and therefore I expressed my opinion, soon after this accident, that it was not caused by the chloroform, which properly speaking the patient did not inhale.