A Chloroform Tippler

A woman suffering from the effects of a chloroform spree was arrested in New York the other day, and it was found that she Ís a eonfirmed chloroform tlppler. Dr. Oppenheimer of Bellevue hospital sald: ' ' Chloroform tipplers are rare, but not particularly so. The same effect may be produced more speedily by the use of hartshorn or ether. Patients that I have treated for the hartshorn habit teil me that that has the (iiückest effect of all. "It is quite possible for a woman to accustom herself to taking two ounces of chloroform a day, hut, like everything else, the time is pretty sure to come when she will take too much. Women are our worst cases. I suppose the effect of chloroform is similar to the effect of ether drinking, whioh is very prevalent in the north of Ireland. lts effect is speedy, and the recovery is equally surprising. A man inay be stupidly drunk at 12 and sober as a judge at 8."