Other names and synonyms
aeth-n.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Nitric Ether. с2 H5 NO3 (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, с2 H5 NO2, which is the principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).
Nosology
Heart, hypertrophy of. Vertigo.
Typical features
This is one of the anaesthetics experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and later by в. W. Richardson. It has produced a few definite symptoms.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Glon., Amyl. nit.
Head, face, and ears
A tendency to pitch forward. Sense of fulness in vessels of brain. Much headache and giddiness for some time after its employment.
Extreme suffusion of face.
Extreme suffusion of face.
Cardiovascular system
Excessive over-action of the heart. Rapid and painful respiration.