All i know is from movies.
you know how they put a cloth on you and you just go to sleep? how does that work? can you just hold your breath until they think youre downed and just fight them off?
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Are you talking about chloroform?
Well, it doesn’t and it’s just a movie trope. You would need to breath through a chloroform-soaked rag for five minutes to fall unconscious.
It doesn’t.
Instantly rendering somebody unconscious by holding a chloroform-soaked rag to their face is nothing more than a movie-making fantasy.
In movies they’re taking liberties with the function of the drug chloroform. You inhale vapors on the rag, and it makes you dizzy. In real life, chloroform does not quite work like that – it takes a long time of direct exposure to pass out. Yeah, you could stop breathing, but you’d have to stop breathing for the five minutes you’d have to be held down.
guessing you mean chloroform.
it’ doesnt work like that, contrary ot what moives and tv show it doesnt act THAT fast, it would take a significant amount of exposure ot even have mild effects and its more immediate danger is that it can make you stop breathing entirely.
in the time it has a chance ot knock you out you had plenty of time to stop the exposure.
First off, it’s a movie so the specifics are greatly fudged.
Second, the piece of cloth is soaked in Chloroform (CHCl3) which can be used to knock someone out if inhaled. We used to use it for surgery but there were side effects and better drugs for that came along.
In addition to it being a fake movie trope, in real life, a sufficient dose of anesthetic to quickly and reliably knock a person out administered outside a controlled medical setting has a good chance of killing them. One of the only times “knockout gas” was used in real life was in 2002 when Chechen terrorists took 850 people hostage in theater in Moscow. The gas Russian authorities used to knock out the hostage takers killed almost 100 of the hostages.
Sidenote: knocking a person unconscious by hitting them with a blunt object is real, but it is also dangerous and causes a major concussion at best, and serious brain damage or even a delayed death from internal bleeding at worst.
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