Ethyl Nitrate

Nitric ether, C 2 H 5 ONO 2 . (not to be confounded with Nitrous ether, C 2 H 5 ONO, which is the principal ingredient of Sweet spirits of nitre).

For use , Inhalations of vapor.

Authorities. 1 , Sir J. Y. Simpson, effects of 50 or 60 drops inhaled, Monthly Journ. of Med. Science, 1848, p. 741; 2 , Benjamim W. Richardson, general effects of inhalation, Brit. and For. Med.-Chirurg. Review, 1867, pt. 2, p. 259.

A tendency to pitch forward, [2] . A sense of fulness of the vessels of the brain, [2] .

Sensation of noise and fulness in the head are, in general excessive, [1] .

Much headache and giddiness for some time have usually followed its employment, [1] .

Extreme suffusion of the face, [2] .

Respiratory Organs.

Rapid and painful respiration, [2] .

Excessive overaction of the heart, [2] .

General Symptoms.

Insensibility (after a few inspirations), [1] .

The effects cease after the agent is withdrawn more quickly than when Nitrate of amyl is employed; but for intensity of action, up to the period of full action, the Ethyl is a powerful as the Amyl, [2] .