Citation

No Author(s) Listed. Buffalo medical and surgical journal 1884; 23(6): 277-278.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1884)

DOI

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PMID

36663553

PMCID

PMC9401277

Abstract

What are the remedies to be employed in acute chloral poisoning? They are especially those designed (i) to sustain the action of the heart, such as ammonia and brandy; (2) to keep up the breathing by artificial respiration, if needed; (3) to keep the patient warm; and (4) to use electricity as a cutaneous stimulant. Thus far you would treat a case as an ordinary one of narcotic poisoning. But is there any remedy that will coun teract the depressing effects of the chloral upon the nervous centers, and particularly the respiratory center? ,Yes; the remedy for this purpose is strychnia, which antagonizes the chloral. It may be used as we gave it here, hypodermically, one-sixtieth of a grain every three hours at first; and it would have been given oftener, but it was not needed. Strychnia, therefore, is indicated as the physiological antidote. It stimu lates the centers which have been depressed by the chloral. When recovery takes place, it is usually rapid...

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