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• n  a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic
  chloroform was the first inhalation anesthetic
• v  anesthetize with chloroform
  Doctors used to put people under by chloroforming them

• Southbend's wells have been polluted by such chemicals as chloroform and xylene, while a black, oozing tar has bubbled upward into driveways and garages.
• But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether.
• His mother, apparently a suicide, was found one morning with chloroform-soaked cotton over her face.

• trichloromethane

News & Articles

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• Jaycee Dugard Memoir Dubbed 'Child Porn,' Claims Sex Offender
  Peter Braunstein, a former newspaper editor serving an 18-year sentence for impersonating a firefighter and assaulting a co-worker whom he'd drugged with chloroform, claimed Jaycee Dugard's "A Stolen Life" has been labeled "child pornography" by the New York State Department of Corrections.        
  June 27, 2013 - ABC News
• Dugard Memoir Dubbed 'Child Porn,' Claims Sex Offender
  Peter Braunstein, a former newspaper editor serving an 18-year sentence for impersonating a firefighter and assaulting a co-worker whom he'd drugged with chloroform, claimed Jaycee Dugard's "A Stolen Life" has been labeled "child pornography" by the New York State Department of Corrections.        
  June 26, 2013 - ABC News

Quotes

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• Dr Michael Baden in WFtv.com
  That would indicate that chloroform has to be considered as a cause of the baby's death,Dr. Baden said.
• Mark Twain in Economist
  Mark Twain, less charitably, called the Book of Mormon "chloroform in print".