Amyl Nitrite.
CHARACTERISTICS
Angina pectoris: face deadly pale, perspiration cold, pulse feeble and irregular, respiration hurried and short. Epilepsy, first state: face pale, pupils dilated, tonic spasms. Chloroform poisoning. Cocaine poisoning. Syncope. Fainting. Pain accompanied by spasms of the muscles of the oesophagus, diaphragm, stomach, bladder, etc.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Great pallor of the face, skin cold and clammy, vertigo.1 Respiration difficult and gasping alternately rapid and slow and then almost suspended2. Muscular relaxation, pupils dilated, eyes glassy and rolling.3. Distressing and irregular palpitation of the heart, or pulse small and slow.4. Epileptic convulsions.5.
DOSE
Amyl nitris. 2-5 drops ion aromatic spirits or by inhalation.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Again pectoris. Face deadly pale, cold perspiration, pulse feeble and irregular, respiration hurried and short.1-2-3-4. (Inhalation).
Epilepsy, first stage. Pale face, spasms of muscles of the eyes and face, pupils dilated, tonic spasms. 1-2-3-4-5 (Internally and by inhalation).
Spasmodic asthma. 1-2-4.
Chloroform poisoning. 1-2-3-4-
Cocaine poisoning. 1-2-3-4.
Neuralgia of the fifth nerve, and hemicrania where the face is blanched from spasm of the blood vessels. 1-4
Pain accompanying spasm of the oesophagus, diaphragm, stomach, bowels, bladder, etc.
Chill of intermittent fever may be abruptly arrested.1-2-4
Strychnine poisoning.5. (Three to five drops by the mouth).
Chordee.
Tetanus.5. (Five drops three times per day).
Trismus nascentium.5
Puerperal convulsions.5.
Infantile convulsions.5.
Syncope.1-2-3.
Faintness from anaemia and from pain 1-2-3.
