Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics

The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics was formed in 1875 at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh. A "large committee of notables, headed by Professor [Joseph] Lister" "to enquire into the report upon the use in surgery of various anaesthetic agents and mixtures of such agents". However, they did not succeed, but a subcommittee consisting of Davind Newman (a Pathological Chemist to the Western Infirmary) Joseph Coates (Pathologist to the Western Infirmary) and Professor McKendrik (Physiologist at Glasgow University) became known as the Glasgow Committee and began work in 1877.

They recommended the use of dichloroethane (ethidene dichloride).^[1]

References

Chloroform committees and commissions
1847	(Chloroform first used)	Antique bottles of chloroform
1864	Chloroform Committee Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society See also: Clover bag
1877	The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics British Medical Association
1888	First Hyderabad Commissions Surgeon-Major Lawrie of the Bengal Medical Service appointed by the Nizam: Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI See also: Lawrie's Apparatus
1889	Second Hyderabad Commission (Surgeon-Major Lawrie with T. Lauder Brunton FRS of St. Bartholomew's Hospital)
1891	British Medical Association Anæsthetics Committee British Medical Association
1893	The Lancet commissioned Dudley Buxton to implement a questionnaire to report deaths, the method of induction and the clinical stance of chloroform.
1901	The Special Chloroform Committee of the British Medical Association British Medical Association
1912	American Medical Association Committee on Anæsthesia (American Medical Association) - ban chloroform
The list shown in this table is referenced.to view its references see: Template:Chloroform committees and commissions.