chloroformist

1. (medicine, archaic) One who uses chloroform as an anaesthetic.Examples: "But his whole account of the correspondence between the chloroformist, by profession, and our colleague is erroneous."; "This must be a result of the quality of the chloroform, of the quantity used in a given time, of the mental and bodily condition of the patient, of the care and skill of the chloroformist, and of the patience of the surgeon who has to operate; for if he be in a hurry, and pull out his watch, and if the chloroformist take the hint, and push the vapour suddenly, the patient is in imminent risk."; "In the Lancet cases the methods of giving the anaesthetic were almost uniformly dangerous even in the hands of the most expert and experienced chloroformist."archaic