Bromidia is a vicious chloral preparation masquerading under a misleading name.
While the chloral content of Bromidia has been given considerable publicity, yet the preparation is used both by physicians and by the public without due consideration of its potent ingredient.
When chloral or a bromid is indicated the proper dose of each of these, if they are to be combined, should be determined for each patient.
In some experiments the hydrated chloralwas dissolved in water; in others, in 10 per cent.
There is no doubt but that physicians are responsible for the use and abuse of this chloral preparation by the public.
We can see nothing in the animal experiments or in the chemical composition which would suggest that Somnos would possess therapeutic advantages over an elixir of hydrated chloral of corresponding strength.
It should be borne in mind that this preparation contains no opium, morphine, chloral or habit-forming drugs .
Well, Sir Owen, she must have been doubtful if she had enough chloral to kill herself, for this is what I found.
Tobacco, opium, alcohol, andchloral are included in this class.
Opium and chloral belong to this class of medicines.
The use of opium and chloral produces even worse effects than the use of alcohol or tobacco.
Bromide of potassium 1/2 ounce with chloral 30 grains, repeated if necessary.
A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Chloral hydrate seems singularly efficient in producing the semblance of death,--so completely, indeed, as to deceive even the elect.
Dioscorides describes a wine, called morion, which was made from the leaves and the root of mandragora, and possessed properties resembling those of chloral hydrate.
Chronic poisoning by chloralis a most pernicious drug-habit.
Chloral is prepared by passing dry chlorine into absolute alcohol; the latter must be cooled at first, but towards the end of the operation has to be heated nearly to boiling.
The crude chloral is distilled over lime, and is purified by further treatment with sulphuric acid, and by redistillation.
Chloral hydrate has the property of checking the decomposition of a great number of albuminous substances, such as milk and meat; and a mixture of it with glycerin, according to J.
When mixed with water, chloral hydrate causes a considerable degree of cold; and, as with camphor, small fragments of it placed on the surface of water exhibit gyratory movements.
When heated with sulphuric acid it is converted into anhydrous chloral and chloralide, C6H2Cl6O3.
The alcohol is converted finally into a syrupy fluid, from which chloral is procured by treatment with sulphuric acid (see P.
Chloral may be estimated by distilling the hydrate with milk of lime and measuring the volume of chloroform produced (C.
The dose is from five to twenty grains or somewhat more, and it is often given in the form of the pharmacopoeial Syrupus Chloral, which contains ten grains of chloral hydrate to the fluid drachm.
In large doses chloral hydrate is a depressant to the circulation and the respiration, and also lowers the temperature.
The melting-point of pure chloralhydrate is 57 deg.
Strychnine is much less likely, however, to save life after poisoning by chloral hydrate, than chloral hydrate is to save life in poisoning by strychnine.
Others, attacking chloral, would maintain that while the bromide has slain its thousands, chloral hydrate has slain its tens of thousands.
As I remember the action of chloral hydrate somebody may lose consciousness and muscular power and sensibility.
Chloral hydrate--safe in the right hands and very efficient.
Taking another piece of paper he emptied into it the rest of the crystals from his pocket and, sorting out pieces of thickened lint and bits of tobacco, wrapped the chloral up securely.
Blascom's drink of whiskey had just enough chloral in it to deaden him and give his worn-out body the chance it sought; besides, he was not too certain of the effect of a full dose on a constitution as undermined as that of his friend.
Professor Tyndall died from an overdose of chloral administered in mistake by his wife Dec.
Chloral discontinued, and she slept naturally all night long.
She rapidly gained flesh and strength, and very soon I entirely stopped both chloral and morphia, and she never seemed to miss them.
The full schedule of diet was reached at the end of a fortnight, but the chloral and morphia were given up at the second day.
Footnote 27: The management of the morphia or chloral habit becomes much more easy under a milk diet, massage, and absolute rest, and I can with confidence commend their use in these difficult cases.
At the time I first saw her, she took thirty grains of chloral every night and three hypodermic injections of one-half grain of morphia daily.
If the throes are very violent, or the womb strongly contracted on the calf, it may be best to seek relaxation by giving chloroform, or 2 ounces of laudanum, or 2 ounces of chloral hydrate.
These failing, 1 ounce or 1-1/2 ounces of chloral hydrate in a quart of water may be given to check the pains.
Two ounces chloral hydrate, given by injection, should induce sleep in 20 minutes, and the operation may proceed.
As anodynes may be mentioned liniments and ointments containing salicylic acid or sodium salicylate in combination with laudanum, aconite, or chloral hydrate.
Chloroform or ether may be given by inhalation, or chloral hydrate (1 ounce) may be given in water by the mouth.
One in particular has made thousands, and likely tens of thousands, of chloral drunkards, dethroned the reason of as many more, besides having killed outright very many.
Among them may be named ether, chloroform and chloral hydrate, three of the most indispensable agents known to science, and the employment of alcohol is essential to their production.
At the same time, another rabbit is treated in precisely the same way, but, simultaneously, a dose of chloral is injected into another part of the body.
Chloral is a powerful drug that has been much resorted to by unthinking persons to produce sleep.
Chloral hydrate not only possesses these qualities, but it also is an antiferment and a pain reliever.
In intractable cases a large dose of chloral hydrate (1 ounce in a quart of water) or the inhalation of chloroform and air (equal proportions) to insensibility may secure a respite, during which the missing members may be replaced.
Chloroform or chloral hydrate, 3 drams, may be substituted if more convenient.
An ounce of the chloral hydrate will certainly relieve the spasm when given internally, but the cramp may return soon after the effect has passed off, which in many cases it does very quickly.
One-ounce doses ofchloral hydrate per rectum should be given if the patient is violent or if muscular spasms are severe.
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Chloral occupies the first place as a hypnotic for young children.
Two grains of chloral hydrate and two grains of potassium bromide with ten minims of syrup of orange, given just before bedtime, will bring sound sleep to a child of a year old.
Lastly, if chloral and bromide cannot break the insomnia, and the condition of the child is becoming distressing, we can almost always succeed if we combine the prescription with an ordinary hot pack for twenty minutes.
Calcium bromide, in doses of from two to four grains, according to age, three times daily, is generally successful with or without the addition of chloral hydrate in small doses.
He said the chloral he had taken daring the journey was upon him, and he could not see.
I judge I've taken more chloral than any man whatever: Marshall says if I were put into a Turkish bath I should sweat it at every pore.
It was not, however, for some years after he began the use of it that chloral produced any sensible effects of an injurious kind, and meantime he pursued as usual his avocation as a painter.
Chloral hydrate and alcoholic stimulants are less vigorous, and cannot be long tolerated by the stomach, especially if there be a gouty diathesis behind the disease.
Having very little power, in moderate doses, to depress the action of the heart, it is preferable to chloral hydrate in cardiac diseases and debility.
For this purpose it may be given in a solution like that of chloral hydrate.
A laryngeal catarrh may excite spasmodic croup--a disorder speedily relieved with chloral hydrate.
Chloral hydrate may also be safely employed in the first and second stages of meningitis; but if given in full doses near the close of the second stage it sometimes seems to hasten the appearance of coma.
Chloral and the bromides are of comparatively little value in all cases where there is considerable depression of the vital forces.
If any evidence of cerebral hyperaemia be observed, it is well to give chloral hydrate and the bromides.
Chloral hydrate is exceedingly useful, but should be given in milk, and as seldom as possible, for fear of adding to the injuries already sustained by the stomach.
Night terrors and screaming fits should be calmed with chloral hydrate and the bromide of sodium.
Hyoscyamus, belladonna, chloral hydrate, and compound spirit of ether, are frequently useful.
A combination of chloral hydrate, sodium bromide, and morphine forms one of the most generally useful hypnotic compounds ever employed.
Alcohol and chloralhydrate must then be given in large and frequent doses.
Liebreich has given the medicine in drachm doses, and recommended it as an hypnotic superior to chloral hydrate.
One of my patients once took by mistake ninety grains of chloralat a single dose.
With it should be associated other remedies, like hyoscyamus and chloral hydrate, in order to procure sleep.
For the first time that week there was no need of the bitter lash of chloral hydrate to beat back the bloodhounds of wakefulness.
The thing I had unmistakably tasted was chloral hydrate.
The mere thought of any such maneuver was too much for me--the foolish hope that a homeopathic little pill of chloral would put me under the table, like any shopgirl lured from a dance-hall!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chloral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
