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| {{anchor:s10}}In 1852, I had an opportunity of witnessing the effect of a strong accidental inhalation of chlorine gas by an adult. {{anchor:s11}}The same phenomena of comparatively, free, but <span grade2>crowing</span> inspiration, and of absolutely obstructed <span grade2>expiration</span> presented themselves, the face became extremely livid, convulsive movements of the extremities began, and the patient became partially comatose. {{anchor:s12}}I administered ammonia by olfaction, the spasm relaxed, and consciousness returned along with normal respiration. | {{anchor:s10}}In 1852, I had an opportunity of witnessing the effect of a strong accidental inhalation of chlorine gas by an adult. {{anchor:s11}}The same phenomena of comparatively, free, but <span grade2>crowing</span> inspiration, and of absolutely obstructed <span grade2>expiration</span> presented themselves, the face became extremely livid, convulsive movements of the extremities began, and the patient became partially comatose. {{anchor:s12}}I administered ammonia by olfaction, the spasm relaxed, and consciousness returned along with normal respiration. | ||
| - | {{anchor:s13}}These experiments show a power in chlorine, to produce the following condition, "Spasm of the glottis, which interferes but little with inspiration, giving to it a crowing sound, but which prevents expiration. {{anchor:s14}}During the continuance of the spasm, the respiratory acts consist of a succession of crowing inspirations, each followed by an ineffectual effort at <span grade2>expiration,</span> the whole serving to inflate the chest to a most painful extent, and attended at last, by turgescence of the face, and more or less complete coma, with or without convulsive movements of the extremities, and during which the spasm relaxes. | + | {{anchor:s13}}These experiments show a power in chlorine, to produce the following condition, "Spasm of the glottis, which interferes but little with inspiration, giving to it a crowing sound, but which prevents expiration. {{anchor:s14}}During the continuance of the spasm, the respiratory acts consist of a succession of crowing inspirations, each followed by an ineffectual effort at <span grade2>expiration,</span> the whole serving to inflate the chest to a most painful extent, and attended at last, by turgescence of the face, and more or less complete coma, with or without convulsive movements of the extremities, and during which the spasm relaxes." |
| {{anchor:s15}}In the proving of chlorine, in Vol. II, of the <span grade2>Neues Archiv,</span> a similar effect is indistinctly indicated. {{anchor:s16}}Pareira says "if an attempt be made to inhale undiluted chlorine gas, it produces <span grade2>spasm of the glottis.</span> {{anchor:s17}}Twice I have suffered severely from the accidental inhalation of it; and each time it gave the sensation of constriction of the air tubes, such as might be produced by a spasmodic condition of the muscular fibres of the bronchial tubes." The peculiar nature of the chlorine spasm, viz. that it affects expiration almost exclusively, is not mentioned by Pareira. | {{anchor:s15}}In the proving of chlorine, in Vol. II, of the <span grade2>Neues Archiv,</span> a similar effect is indistinctly indicated. {{anchor:s16}}Pareira says "if an attempt be made to inhale undiluted chlorine gas, it produces <span grade2>spasm of the glottis.</span> {{anchor:s17}}Twice I have suffered severely from the accidental inhalation of it; and each time it gave the sensation of constriction of the air tubes, such as might be produced by a spasmodic condition of the muscular fibres of the bronchial tubes." The peculiar nature of the chlorine spasm, viz. that it affects expiration almost exclusively, is not mentioned by Pareira. | ||
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