Materia Medica
Chloroformum
Chloroform
General ancsthetic, antispasmodic. Complete mus- cular relaxation. Weak and quick pulse, shallow or stertorous breathing. Convulsions, nephritic or biliary colic, gastralgia. Chloroform.-- Symptoms obtained by Dr. D. Mac- farlan with the 6th potency: Great weakness, especially on right side. Limbs very tired from knees-down. Much perspiration all over face and chest; drowsy and dizzy; dry lips and throat; dry tickling cough at night. Flatulence; food re- gurgitates; sore and bruised feeling in stomach; catch- ing pain around heart. Sharp pain in right chest when he takes long breath; shortne
Head
Delirium where excitement and violence pre- dominate. Head drawn down upon the shoulders, eyes opened and closed rapidly, pupils contracted; rapid con- vulsive movements of face, of muscles, of extremities.
Dose
Higher attenuations, or sixth. Phosphorus is the reniedy to give in narcosis of chloroform.