Faraday to William Robert Grove   20 March 1848

R Institution | 20 March 1848

My dear Groves

Who was the Medical Man that attended Mrs. Groves1 in her confinement and was he the same that administered the Chloroform2. I ask for the sake of a niece of mine[.]

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

1
Emma Maria Grove, née Powles (d.1879, age 68, GRO). Married Grove in 1837. See DNB under William Robert Grove.
2
The use of chloroform in childbirth had been introduced in London in November 1847. See Smith (1847).

Bibliography

SMITH, Protheroe (1847): “On the use of chloroform in midwifery practice”, Lancet, 2: 572-4.

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