ETHYL-NITRATE.

ONO2 . (not to be confounded with Nitrous ether, C2H5

ONO, which is the principal ingredient of Sweet spirits of nitre).

For use , Inhalations of vapor.

Authorities.

1 , Sir J. Y. Simpson, effects of 50 or 60 drops inhaled, Monthly Journ. of Med. Science, 1848, p. 741; 2 , Benjamim W. Richardson, general effects of inhalation, Brit. and For. Med.-Chirurg. Review, 1867, pt. 2, p. 259.

HEAD

• A tendency to pitch forward, 2.
• A sense of fulness of the vessels of the brain, 2.
• Sensation of noise and fulness in the head are, in general excessive, 1.
• Much headache and giddiness for some time have usually followed its employment, 1.

FACE

• Extreme suffusion of the face, 2.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Rapid and painful respiration, 2.

HEART

• Excessive overaction of the heart, 2.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Insensibility (after a few inspirations), 1.
• The effects cease after the agent is withdrawn more quickly than when Nitrate of amyl is employed; but for intensity of action, up to the period of full action, the Ethyl is a powerful as the Amyl, 2.