_Treatment._--Stomach-tube and free lavage; cold affusion; drawing
forward tongue; artificial respiration; galvanism and suspension with
head downward. Inhalation of nitrite of amyl; strychnine hypodermically.
_Fatal Dose._--When swallowed, from 1 to 2 ounces.
_Method of Extraction from the Stomach._--By distillation at 120 deg. F. The
vapour, as it passes along a glass tube, may be decomposed by heat into
chlorine, hydrochloric acid, and carbon--the first shown by setting free
iodine in iodide of starch, the second by reddening blue litmus-paper,
and the last by its deposit.
_Tests._--Taste, colour, weight; burns with a green flame; dissolves
camphor, guttapercha, and caoutchouc.
=Iodoform.=--Poisoning may result from its use in surgery. It produces
delirium, sleepiness, and coma. It may lead to mental weakness or optic
neuritis.
XXXV.--CHLORAL HYDRATE
It was formerly largely used as a hypnotic, and many fatal consequences
ensued. It is prepared from alcohol and chlorine.
_Symptoms._--Deep sleep, loss of muscular power, diminished or abolished
reflex action and sensibility, followed by loss of consciousness and
marked fall of temperature.
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