Conacher I D
Anaesthesia. 1985 Nov;40(11):1103-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1985.tb10611.x.
The Reverend Doctor Robert Laws (1851-1934) followed in the footsteps of David Livingstone to Central Africa. At the beginning of a long and distinguished career as a medical missionary in Christian service to the country that has since become the Republic of Malawi, he was a prime mover in the setting up of a mission station at Cape Maclear, on the shores of Lake Malawi (formerly known as Lake Nyasa and closely associated with the discoveries of Doctor Livingstone). There, on 2 March 1876, Laws used chloroform to produce surgical anaesthesia when he operated on a young African male who had a cystic tumour above his left eye.
罗伯特·劳斯牧师博士（1851 - 1934）追随大卫·利文斯通的脚步前往中非。在他漫长且卓越的职业生涯初期，作为一名医疗传教士投身于后来成为马拉维共和国的这片土地的基督教服务中，他是在马拉维湖（原称尼亚萨湖，与利文斯通博士的发现紧密相关）湖畔的麦克利尔角建立传教站的主要推动者。1876年3月2日，在那里，劳斯为一名左眼上方患有囊性肿瘤的年轻非洲男性实施手术时，使用氯仿进行了外科麻醉。
