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Latin, Aethylis Chloridum (Gen., Aethylis Chloridi)
Eng., Ethyl Chloride. A colorless liquid.
Employed to produce local and general anesthesia. It is used as a general anesthetic when only a brief period of unconsciousness is desired, or when rapid effect is wished. It is often used at the beginning of anesthesia, and then followed with ether.
As a local anesthetic it acts by rapid evaporation from the surface on which it is sprayed; heat is removed and the part may be rapidly frozen.
Ethyl Chloride is on the market in bottles, but the most con-
1 Hughes: Practice of Medicine.
Aethylmorphinae hydrochloridum. alcohol. 55 venient package for general use is that equipped with a device that permits any part to be used as a spray and the balance retained.
See Opium, p. 239.
 
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