Health Sciences · Hospital for Sick Children
A blue and white cardboard package contains a brown-tinted glass bottle with a white plastic cap and a blue and white label. The box also contains a paper instruction sheet.
The opening at the top of the box is damaged.
Accession Number: 2025.sk.18
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Primary Materials: Glass
The label includes the following information: “Reg. Vic. 4871”, “HH310 A”; “43512/3”
Dimensions (cm): Height = 10, Max diam. = 8.
Trichloroethylene is a anesthetic marketed as Trilene. Trichloroethylene was introduced as an non-combustible inhalation anaesthetic in the 1940s. It was a light anesthesia generally used for pain relief.
Its disadvantages included the fact that it could not be used with soda lime carbon dioxide absorbers, commonly used in anesthesia breathing circuits; the combination produced a neurotoxin.
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Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK.
Date of Manufacture: Mid 20th c.
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