Kerosolene - General symptoms

GENERAL

General

One of the lighter (probably the lightest) products, obtained by distillation from the crude oil obtained from Albatite from Nova Scotia, Kerosolene being the trade name given by the "Downer Kerosene Oil Company," Boston, Mass.

nearly or quite identical with "Gasolene," the lightest oil from Petroleum ^petroleum.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Moderate convulsions (after each of three trials),

More muscular rigor than usual in favorable anaesthesia,

He immediately succumbed to its influence,

Quickly went off to sleep,

They become partially or wholly insensible, but rapidly recover when brought to the open air, and in ten or fifteen minutes are able to resume their employment,

Wholly insensible,

Complete insensibility, lasting several minutes, with some diminution of the volume of the pulse,

Became totally insensible; on being withdrawn he expressed himself as having had a very fine "drame,"

Asphyxia, with its attendant spasm,

The insensibility to surrounding impressions was complete, although the eyes were not closed; pinches and the prick of a pin were unnoticed,

Entire insensibility to external impressions.

a sort of numbness is felt at first, and anaesthesia to pricks and pinches occurs long before the person is insensible.

it has not produced sleep as occurs from the use of Chloroformium ^chloroform, but a kind of trance in which the mind is still active.

it acts purely as a sedative,.

The first impression is sudden, powerful, and pleasant.

almost immediately I passed into a state of pleasurable insensibility, which at no time was perfect.

at least there would be responses to the prick of a pin, and the muscles were not quiet, although afterwards I had no recollection of any such thing.

I grasped the napkin on which the kerosolene was found with my teeth so strongly that it could hardly be taken away.

the stimulus of the vapor penetrated the whole frame, even to the tips of the fingers,.