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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago

It's easy to knock someone out with chloroform, and many many other chemicals.

The hard part is getting them to wake up later

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 28 points 23 hours ago

As far as I know it's not that easy. The...test person has to take quite some breaths of it until it shows some effect

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Indeed. People don't just go limp, there is enough time to slip away. And you wake up pretty quick if you don't keep breathing it in.

Back when they actually used ether and chloroform as anesthesia, they had this little metal cage they'd put over the patient mouth to extend it away from the mouth, which would be wrapped in gauze and then have ether or chloroform dripping down to keep it going.

And if you try to speed it up by using more, you're likely to kill the patient since it depresses the central nervous system.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 points 21 hours ago

Exactly, the movie trope is very wrong in the mechanism of action. This is no schience meme

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

with chlorodeform

[-] Lucien@mander.xyz 4 points 23 hours ago

Pretty much any of the halogens will do this

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 16 points 21 hours ago

"Hey does this smell like chloroform to you?"

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 12 points 22 hours ago

Are we just ignoring the fingernail that looks like it got smashed with a hammer

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 points 19 hours ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 15 hours ago

Are we gonna ignore that fingernail looks like it was smashed with a jar of nail polish?

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago

liver more like lived

this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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