Ethyl-nitrate
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. IV, p. 228
• Nitric ether, C^H^Onos (not to be confounded with Nitrous ether, CjHjONO, which is the principal ingredient of Sweet spirits of nitre).
For use, Inhalations of vapor.
Authorities. 1, Sir J. Y. Simpson, effects of 50 or 60 drops inhaled. Monthly Journ. of Med. Science, 1848, p. 741; 2, Benjamin W. Richardson, general effects of inhalation, Brit, and For. Med.-Chirurg. Review, 1867, pt. 2, p. 259.
Head
A tendency to pitch forward
A sense of fulness of the vessels of the brain
Sensations of noise and fulness in the head are, in general, excessive
Much headache and giddiness for some time have usually followed its employment
Face
Extreme suffusion of the face
Respiratory Organs
Rapid and painful respiration
Heart
Excessive overaction of the heart
Generalities
Insensibility (after a few inspirations)
The effects cease after the agent is withdrawn more quickly than when Nitrate of amyl is employed; but for intensity of action, up to the period of full action, the Ethyl is as powerful as the Amyl