Ethylum nitricum

Ethyl nitrite · Human-made/chemical

Clarke

Ethylum nitricum suits conditions of vascular fullness with congestion to the head, hypertrophy of the heart, and vertigo. Compare with Glonoine and Amyl nitrite.

Key symptoms

Tendency to pitch forward
Sense of fulness in vessels of the brain
Headache and giddiness persisting after use
Extreme suffusion of the face
Excessive over-action of the heart
Rapid and painful respiration

John Henry Clarke

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900

Nitric Ether. C2 H5 NO3 (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, C2 H5 NO2, which is the principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).

Clinical

Heart, hypertrophy of. Vertigo.

Characteristics

This is one of the anæsthetics experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and later by B. W. Richardson. It has produced a few definite symptoms.

Relations

Compare: Glon., Amyl. nit.

2. Head

A tendency to pitch forward.─Sense of fulness in vessels of brain.─Much headache and giddiness for some time after its employment.

6. Face

Extreme suffusion of face.

19. Heart

.─Excessive over-action of the heart.─Rapid and painful respiration.

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