Introduction
Methylene bichloride, H2I2. (Chloroform is Methylene trichloride.).
General Symptoms
The anaesthesia having been carried very deeply, the tongue of the patient was retracted into the throat, and after pulling it forward there was a free secretion of saliva, followed by an eructation, and about a dessert spoonful of fluid from the mouth; this might have been excited by the irritation communicated to the throat in pulling up the tongue, or it might have been from the anaesthetic (in one case). Bilious vomiting (in one case, ten hours after operation for vesico-vaginal fistula). Anaesthesia in half a minute. Anaesthesia in less than half a minute. The shortest time in which anaesthesia was produced was twenty seconds, in a child; the longest two minutes and a half, in a man, aged twenty-four; the shortest time which it was maintained was forty seconds, the longest thirty-five minutes. In each case, the transition from the first to the third degree of narcotism was very brief; when the anaesthesia, which was complete in an average of five minutes, was well established, it was easily prolonged for six, and even seven minutes without re- administering the vapor, and when recovery began to show itself, very brief re-administration quickly reproduced the insensibility; the period of narcotism averaged from thirty- five to forty-five minutes; in one case after the operation, the patient continued twenty-seven minutes in unbroken sleep, and then awoke with entire consciousness; in one case it allowed the lady to drop to sleep precisely as in natural sleep, and to wake with all her senses aroused as after natural slumber. After two or three convulsive gasps, the patient expired.
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.