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As the price of chloroform was one potent reason, particularly in pauper and country practice, for not using it so extensively as it might be employed, Dr Simpson remarked, that he had found many practitioners unaware of the cheapness with which the drug was now furnished. In his original pamphlet upon chloroform as a substitute for sulphuric ether, Dr Simpson had observed :?" I believe that, considering the small quantity requisite, as compared with ether, the use of chloroform will be less expensive than that of ether; more especially as there is every prospect that the means of forming it may be simplified and cheapened." These anticipations were now so far fulfilled that chloroform was at