Chloroformum

Chloroform is the well-known anesthetic, the general effects of which in

arresting sensation need no description. Unlike Ether and Nitrous oxide, which require to be

administered without air, chloroform vapour must have abundance of air inhaled with it, or

asphyxia results. Its most noteworthy effect is complete relaxation of all the voluntary muscles of

the body. It may cause death by paralysing the respiration or the heart. Its use is contraindicated

where there is brain softening; fatty heart; alcoholism; or albuminuria. Marcy cured with it a case

of arachnitis ending in convulsions. It is especially indicated in delirium where excitement and

violence predominate; desire to kill. Paralysis of voluntary and involuntary muscles and special

senses. Chloroform will dissolve gall-stones, and cases have been treated by the injection of

Chloroform into the gall-bladder.

Wild excitement, followed by complete insensibility—Sang comic songs; could

scarcely be persuaded to leave the piano.—Obscene language used under its influence, in two

provers.—Desire to kill.

Delirium where excitement and violence predominate. Head drawn down upon the shoulders, eyes opened and closed rapidly, pupils contracted; rapid convulsive movements of face, of muscles, of extremities.

Vertigo, rising from spine into occiput.—Whirling in head as if he would fall

• ▸forward.
• ▸—As if ground waving on closing eyes.
• ▸—Head drawn down on shoulders.
• ▸—Severe

bursting headache in forehead.—Headache with dizziness; with roaring in ears; with excessive

nausea and vomiting.

• ▸Conjunctiva insensible.
• ▸—Pupils dilated, insensible to light.
• ▸—Eyes turned up.
• ▸—Sight

gradually went out and returned gradually.—Dark points and bright streaks.—Small black points

float before eyes.—Large black spots; grey spots; float a few inches before the eye; follow the

motion of the eye.—Bright and dark points; sparks; flashes of light.

Burning in throat; scraping.—Violent scraping and coldness in fauces on inspiration.

Eructations—Burning in stomach; alternating with chilliness—Nervous

hiccough.—Nausea and vomiting, sea-sickness, or morning sickness, much acidity and great

distension of stomach and bowels with gas; abdomen tense; rumbling.

Constantly increasing retardation and weakening of action of heart and arteries.

• ▸Arachnitis.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Delirium tremens.
• ▸Gall-stones.
• ▸Muscé volitantes.
• ▸Paralysis

• ▸of sphincter vesic¢.
• ▸Puerperal convulsions.
• ▸Sick headache.
• ▸Smell, lost.
• ▸Taste, lost.
• ▸Tetanus.

Typhus. Vertigo.

• ▸Compare: Chloralum.
• ▸Antidoted by: Amyl.
• ▸nit.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸, Brandy; Ice in rectum.
• ▸/t

antidotes: Strychnine.

• ▸Ether Post-operative Bronchitis (Prof.
• ▸Bier).
• ▸Spiritus Aetheris Compositus.
• ▸--(Hoffman's Anodyne)--(Flatulence; angina pectoris.
• ▸Dose 5m to 1 dram in water).

Higher attenuations, or sixth. Phosphorus is the remedy to give in narcosis of chloroform.

Chloroform (CHLOROFORMUM)

• ▸General anaesthetic, antispasmodic.
• ▸Complete muscular relaxation.
• ▸Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous breathing.
• ▸Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colic, gastralgia.

Symptoms obtained by Dr. D. Macfarlan with the 6th potency.

• ▸Great weakness, especially on right side.
• ▸Limbs very tired from knees down.
• ▸Much perspiration all over face and chest; drowsy and dizzy; dry lips and throat; dry tickling cough at night.
• ▸Flatulence; food regurgitates; sore and bruised feeling in stomach; catching pain around heart.
• ▸Sharp pain in right chest when he takes long breath; shortness of breath on exertion.