Ethylum Nitricum

by John Henry ClarkeA 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.

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