A laboratory technician who doused a 17-year-old student's dust mask in chloroform, knocking her unconscious, was found guilty in a U.K. court Friday. Jared Shreeve, 41, from the London neighborhood ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

The man accused of killing 3-year-old Mariah Woods is alleged to have used chloroform. Chloroform was invented in the 1830s and among its original uses was in surgery as an anesthetic. The anesthetic ...

Her recollection she searched "chlorofrom" on Internet surprises prosecution. June 24, 2011— -- The surprise testimony by Casey Anthony's mother that she was the one who repeatedly looked up ...

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Judge says jury could begin deliberating on Sunday. July 1, 2011 — -- The prosecution in the Casey Anthony murder trial presented evidence that questioned the truthfulness of Cindy Anthony's ...

The detection of chloroform in the trunk of the car driven by Casey Anthony, along with evidence that she researched the chemical on the Internet, does not bode well for the mother of missing ...

A star pupil was knocked out and nearly killed after a school lab technician tricked her into wearing a chloroform-soaked mask. Sayeda Rahman, 17, was persuaded to cover her face after being told ...

A kidnapping scene in Tamil scene is seldom complete without the use of the grand, old chloroform trick. Typically, the kidnapper would douse his white (for some reason) handkerchief in chloroform and ...