Other names and synonyms
carbn-chl.Description Source
Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF AllenPharmacological Group
Additional facts
Carboneum chloratum, Tetrachloride of сarbon, сAYUSES (A colorless liquid, soluble in alcohol).
Head, face, and ears
Full pulsation in head and limbs. Full and hot sensation in head (after one hour and a half).
Gastrointestinal tract
Sinking and nausea at the stomach (after one hour and a half).
Abdomen.
Feeling of distension.
Abdomen.
Feeling of distension.
Chest 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 had also gone.
Cardiovascular system
The depressing influence upon the heart greater than that of сhloroform. 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). The pulse becomes extremely feeble and weak. Pulse weak and rapid during the greatest degree of anaesthetic sleep.
Common symptoms
Great muscular lassitude and indisposition to move. Its primary effects are similar to those of сhloroform, but it takes a longer time to produce the same degree of anaesthesia, an generally a longer time to recover from it.
Fever
Sensation of heat all through the system.
Sleep
Sleepiness, with a sort of passive wish to proceed with the inspiration, but as if even this were too much trouble. вad 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.