- Chloroform is the well-known anesthetic, the general effects of which in arresting sensation need no description.
- Unlike ether and nitrous oxide, which must be administered without air, chloroform vapor must have an abundance of air inhaled with it or asphyxia results.
- Its most noteworthy effect is the complete relaxation of all the voluntary muscles of the body.
- It may cause death by paralyzing the respiration or the heart.
- Its use is contrain dicated where there is brain softening, fatty heart, alcoholism or albuminuria.
- General anesthetic and anti-spasmodic.
- Complete muscular relaxation.
- Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous breathing.
- Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants., gastralgia.
- Great weakness, especially on right side.
- Limbs very tired from knees down.
- Much perspiration all over face and chest.
- Drowsy and dizzy.
- Dry lips and throat, dry tickling cough at night.
- FlatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind., food regurgitates.
- Sore and bruised feeling in stomach.
- Catching pain around heart.
- Sh arp paininrightchestwhen he takes long breath, shortness of breath on exertion.
- COMMENTS-Marcy cured with it a case of arachnitis ending in convulsions.
- It is especially indicated in deliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. where ex citement and violence predominate, desire to kill.
- ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of voluntary and involuntary muscles and special senses.
- Chloroform will dissolve g allstones and cases have been treated by the injection of Chloroform into the gallbladder.
- Symptoms were obtained by Dr. D. Macfarlan with the 6c potencyStrength level of a remedyThe dilution and succussion scale of a remedy (e.g., 6C, 30C, 200C, 1M), indicating its energetic concentration.
