Carboneum Chloratum

Carboneum chloratum, Tetrachloride of Carbon, CC14. (A colorless liquid, soluble in alcohol.)

Authorities. 1, Sir J. Y. Simpson, Pharm. Journ., 24, 416; 2, Nunneley, Brit. Med. Journ., 1867 ; both are statements of the effects of the vapor.

Head

Full pulsation in head and limbs

Full and hot sensation in head (after one hour and a half)

Stomach

Sinking and nausea at the stomach (after one hour and a half)

Abdomen

Feeling of distension

Respiratory Organs

Since inhaling the vapor, a relaxed condition of the bronchial mucous membrane, with expectoration every morning of three or four lumps of carbonaceous mucus, and some during the day, has altogether disappeared, and the little irritation of the membrane has also gone

Heart and Pulse

The depressing influence upon the heart greater than that of Chloroform

Failing iu the action of the heart, which became weak, and not more than forty-eight per minute, with great lassitude in the limbs (after one hour and a half)

The pulse becomes extremely feeble and weak

Pulse weak and rapid during the greatest degree of anesthetic sleep

Generalities

Great muscular lassitude and indisposition to move

Its primary effects are similar to those of Chloroform, but it lakes a longer time to produce the same degree of anaesthesia, and generally a longer time to recover from it

Fever

Sensation of heat all through the system

Sleep and Dreams

Sleepiness, with a sort of passive wish to proceed with the inspiration, but as if even this were too much trouble

Bad night, with little continuous sleep till morning ; lay half dreaming, with a hot skin, a swimming feeling in the head, nausea at the stomach, a very dry tongue sticking to the palate, a taste of the Tetrachloride, and a weak pulse, with a feeling like sea-sickness ; restlessness, with a disinclination to move