Ethylum Nitricum
By John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
Nitric Ether. C 2 H 5 NO 3 (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, C 2 H 5 NO 2 , which is the principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).
Clinical
Heart, hypertrophy of / Vertigo
Characteristics
This is one of the anæsthetics experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and later by B. W. Richardson. It has produced a few definite symptoms.
Relations
Compare: Glon., Amyl. nit.
2. Head
A tendency to pitch forward. Sense of fulness in vessels of brain. Much headache and giddiness for some time after its employment.
6. Face
Extreme suffusion of face.
19. Heart . . Excessive over-action of the heart. Rapid and painful respiration.