Ethylum Nitricum
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General
Ethylum Nitricum.
Nitric Ether. C2 H5 NO3 (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, C2 H5 NO2, which is the principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).
Clinical
Heart, hypertrophy of. Vertigo.
Characteristics
This is one of the anaesthetics experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and later by B. W. Richardson. It has produced a few definite symptoms.
Relations
Compare: Glon., Amyl. nit.
Head
A tendency to pitch forward
Sense of fulness in vessels of brain
Much headache and giddiness for some time after its employment.
Face
Extreme suffusion of face.
Heart
Excessive over-action of the heart.—Rapid and painful respiration.