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Chloroform on a handkerchief: Putting a myth to sleep A kidnapping scene in Tamil scene is seldom complete without the use of the grand, old chloroform trick. A still from Mumbai express. By Gopinath Rajendran. Now we are on Telegram too. Follow us for updates. Does it really work like that in real life? And if so, how? The following four answers to these questions are the best on the internet.
Using chloroform to knock someone out in a matter of seconds is entirely fiction. Chloroform is basically an anesthetic—but one that is no longer used due to the fact that it can seriously damage your liver and heart. Even with perfect dosing, it would take at least 5 minutes of breathing it to knock someone unconscious. There are two parts to explaining how it works: Chloroform is a volatile liquid. This means that it wants to evaporate into a gas very quickly and thus you inhale it.
Ever try and add water and oil together? But if you try and mix different oils together, they mix quite well. Hollywood creators were quick to create this image of a powerful weapon, which can sedate an adult man within seconds — that is how the era of damp cloths started. If you sneaked up on someone and pressed a damp, sweet-smelling cloth to their faces, you would get kicked in the guts.
And probably not just once. Scientists estimate that it would probably take around 5 minutes for an adult person to become unconscious from breathing though a cloth with chloroform on it. That is a long time, which would be filled with fighting. In fact, this method of sedating your victims is quite dangerous — you will eventually get tired from holding that cloth and you will be facing an angry person after he sets free. But we already mentioned that chloroform was used as a weapon in a lot of criminal acts before — how was that possible?
Well, chloroform was rarely used alone — usually it was matched with other drugs or alcohol. Furthermore, in many cases victims agreed to take chloroform as a recreational drug or were tricked into taking it orally. It is easy to overdose on chloroform, but some people died from simply swallowing their tongues and suffocating.
That is why skilled anaesthesiologists were needed to use chloroform in clinical settings. So, to sum up, chloroform works nothing like you see in movies. It is a slowly working substance, which takes minutes to kick in.
Chloroform is also dangerous for both the victim and the attacker — it is really not the best choice for criminals. Additional comments optional. You can offer your link to a page which is relevant to the topic of this post. February 11, May 1, January 31, January 11, June 30,
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