In the beginning of 20 th century it was still widely used as an anaesthetic, which made it easier for criminals to acquire some of this substance. 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.
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