CARBONEUM CHLORATUM.
Carboneum chloratum, Tetrachloride of Carbon, CCl4.
(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, [2]. ►
Full and hot sensation in head (after one hour and a half), [4].
STOMACH.
► Sinking and
nausea at the stomach (after one hour and a half), [2].
ABDOMEN.
► Feeling of
distension, [2].
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, [2].
HEART AND PULSE.
► The
depressing influence upon the heart greater than that of Chloroform, [1]. ► Failing in 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), [2]. ► The pulse becomes extremely feeble and weak, [1]. ► Pulse weak and rapid during
the greatest degree of anæsthetic sleep, [1].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
[10.] ► Great muscular lassitude and indisposition to move, [2]. ► Its primary
effects are similar to those of Chloroform, but it takes a longer time to produce the same
degree of anæsthesia, and generally a longer time to recover from it, [1].
FEVER.
► Sensation of heat
all through the system, [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness, with a sort of passive wish to proceed with the inspiration, but as if even this
were too much trouble, [2]. ►
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, [2].
SUPPLEMENT: CARBONEUM CHLORATUM.
Authority.
3, J. Y.
Simpson, M.D., Pharm. Journ., vol. vii, 1848, p. 516. ►
When the vapor is inhaled it causes so great irritation of the throat, that few can
persevere in breathing it for such a length of time as to induce anæsthesia. I have
latterly, however, seen it inhaled perseveringly until this state, with all its usual
phenomena, followed; and without excitement of the pulse or subsequent headache. When I
myself attempted to inhale the Chloride of hydrocarbon, it produced an extreme degree of
acrid irritation in the throat, which did not disappear entirely for many hours afterwards, [3].® 2000
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