Chlorum chlor.

Respiratory organs. Mucous membranes. Nerves. Skin. Glands.

Expiration. After midnight. Lying.

Motion. Open air.

Rapid emaciation. Constrictions.

Fears insanity or losing senses. Protruding eyes. Acrid coryza. Putrid aphthæ. Dry tongue. DYSPNŒA; CAN'T EXHALE. Spasm of glottis. Laryngitis. Laryngismus stridulus. Asthma of hay fever. Throat-pit; aching, tickling or whistling in. As if air were forced into upper chest (Sabi.). Sensitive skin. Easy sweat.

Antidote: Lyc. Related: Ars-io. Iod. Meph. Merc.

Chlorine Gas in Water

The marked effect on the respiratory organs, producing spasm of the glottis, is the chief symptom of the drug. Asthma to relieve the spasm of glottis. Useful externally and internally in gangrene.

Fear of becoming crazy. Marked loss of memory, especially for names.

Sooty, smoky nostrils. Coryza with sudden gushes of sharp, corroding fluid, making nose sore inside and about the alæ. Constriction, with suffocation. Spasm of the glottis. Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi. Loss of voice from damp air. Sudden dyspnœa from spasm of the vocal cords, with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small. Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration. (Mephit). Livid face. Prolonged, loud, whistling rales. Extreme dryness of tongue.

Chlorine water, when required of full strength, must be freshly prepared. Fourth to sixth potency.

Chlorine, the element. Cl. Solution.

Aphthæ. Asthma . Catarrh. Chlorosis. Cold. Convulsions. Croup. Dentition. Diphtheria. Gastritis. Hæmoptysis. Impotence. Laryngismus. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Sore-throat. Typhus. Ulcers.

Chlorum has been proved in the form of "Chlorine water, and has been tested clinically. It produces spasms and convulsions, coryza and catarrh. Laryngeal spasm is especially pronounced; the chief difficulty is in exhaling , can draw in the air well enough. Convulsive attacks on cutting eye-teeth. Mouth inflamed; ulcerated. Rapid emaciation. Acute rheumatic pains. Excessive sensitiveness of skin. Nettlerash, with fever. Cutis anserina. Skin dry, yellow, shrivelled. Malignant pustule and carbuncle. Typhoid state. The mental state is noteworthy. Fears he will go crazy; that he won't be able to make a living. Cannot remember names of people he sees, or if he sees the names cannot remember the person. E. Z. Bacon has recorded ( Med. Visitor , Dec., 1893) two cases of chlorine poisoning. The first was in a boy of five, who, after passing through diphtheria to apparent complete recovery, was suddenly seized with symptoms of croup: loss of voice, crowing inspiration, prolonged expiration; incessant dry cough; great restlessness, high fever, profuse perspiration. The symptoms were < lying on a lounge by the fire; > when lying in his mother's lap, and still more relieved by being carried about. During the previous illness Platt's chlorides had been placed in the room as a disinfectant, and it occurred to the doctor that chlorine vapour is much heavier than air. He himself lay down on the lounge, and in a few minutes felt the irritating vapour, and began to cough and hack. This soon passed away on sitting up. The removal of the chlorides had a remarkable effect on the child; cough and respiration were greatly relieved. But the relief came too late, as the cause was not discovered for several days, during which time the patient had become steadily weaker, and he died the same afternoon. The other case was that of an old lady who suffered from chronic bronchitis, and on January 2, 1892, developed an attack of laryngitis. In three days she was well; but the two subsequent weeks, on exactly the same day, a fresh attack occurred. The fact was, as the doctor discovered, his patient went to the back room, where chlorides were kept, every Monday to wash a few things she did not care to send to the laundry. The chlorides were banished, and though the washing was continued there were no more attacks of laryngitis. Dr. Bacon adds, that since giving up the use of disinfectants, other than plenty of fresh air, he has never had laryngeal complications in scarlatina or diphtheria, though his neighbours have had plenty. Whitman recommends chlorine water as an efficient palliative in a fit of asthma. He begins with 10 drops, then in five minutes 20 more, and then in another five minutes, half-a-teaspoonful, always in a little water. It greatly facilitates expectoration. In typhus fever Goullon, senior, recommends chlorine water, five drops every two or three hours until the tongue is dry. I have had excellent results from the 12th and 30th in nasal catarrh, and in breathlessness remaining after acute bronchitis. The symptoms are < from midnight to 7 a.m. (spasm of glottis). Lying down < nasal complaints. Inclination to lie down, with headache. Restless; < walking up and down. Sitting with sun shining on back = shuddering. Open air > chest affections; = running of tears. Damp air = loss of voice.

Compare: Mephitis (inability to exhale); closely resembles Bromine, and, less closely, Iodine. Nat. mur. (sore-mouth); and other chlorides. It is an antidote to: Hydrocyanic acid and Sulphuretted hydrogen. It is antidoted by: Sulphuretted hydrogen, Albumen, Lycopod. (impotence); Plumb acet. (blood-spitting and pleurisy). it follows well: Phos.

Apprehension. — Irritability, inclined to anger. — Forgets names and persons. — Effects of excitement. — Coma, fainting with cold, viscous sweats.

Painful aching in vertex and down l. side, with inclination to lie down. — Warm sweat breaks out on forehead while coughing.

Running of tears < in open air. — Suddenly numerous fantastic images appeared before the eyes, disappearing with lightning-like rapidity.

Coryza with headache. — Sneezing, violent; in morning. — Dryness in nose. — Nose smoky or sooty. — Corrosive feeling in corners of nose. — Sudden running in drops of sharp corroding fluid, with tears in eyes, dry tongue, palate, and fauces. — Thin coryza, soon changing to yellow, copious mucus. — Loss of smell.

Face swollen, with protruding eyes. — Face pale, often greenish. — Heightened colour.

Sensation as if teeth were too full; as if injured by acids. — Teeth black.

Tongue black. — Tongue as if burnt. — Mouth dry. — Very acid saliva. — Aphthæ. — Putrid odour from mouth.

Dry. — Sore from uvula to bronchi. — Choking sensation; inability to swallow.

Acid stomach and other gastric troubles (in workmen exposed to fumes of chlorine, and who eat chalk for it). — Desire to vomit when coughing, without nausea.

Diarrhœa: in the morning; with dry mouth, after the eruption appears in typhus. — Stools of bright blood. — Hæmorrhage in typhus, blood black, coagulated, or thin, smelling like carrion.

Sudden impotence and aversion to sexual intercourse.

Aphonia from damp air. — Great difficulty in articulating or breathing. — Spasms of glottis; air enters easily, but cannot be expelled. — Feeling as if rima glottidis were stiff, as if composed of an iron ring. — Sudden tightness of chest. — Expiration easy, inspiration a little difficult and accompanied by râles (this is less characteristic than the opposite). — Any attempt to cough = spasm of the glottis. — Desire to cough from tickling and sensation of rawness behind thyroid cartilage, but the cough is abortive, as he cannot expel the air from the chest. — A continuous little dry cough. — At each cough a spot in chest (region of r. bronchus) feels sore, as if the cough jarred and hurt it. — Phlegm raised with difficulty; soon collects again. — Cough with spitting of blood; with pleuritic pains. — Sensation of warmth in respiratory organs. — Sensation in lower and inner third of r. lung as if it were ruptured and as if air escaped from lung into pleural cavity at each inspiration.

Heart's action much increased. — Râles frequent.

Chilliness and crawls; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. — Burning, dry heat, with anxiety and raving. — Genial glow all over, with night-sweat. — Cold sweat. — Viscous sweat. — Typhus.

Mind tranquil and active.
Apprehension.
A horrible state of mind, fears he will go crazy, fears he cannot make a living.
Everything seems in confusion.
Cannot remember names if he sees people, and when seeing the names does not remember the person.
Quiet delirium in alternation with the greatest restlessness and desire to run away. θ Typhus.
Restless desire to walk about, as if whole attention must be centered on act of respiration.
Intoxicated feeling with sopor and great nervous irritation ; dry mouth and diarrhœa. θ Typhus.
Inclined to anger.
After excitement. θ Spasmus glottidis.

Disposition to faint. θ Typhus.
Vertigo and stupor.
Coma, fainting and cold, viscous sweats. θ Typhus. θ Scarlatina. θ Measles.
θ Variola.
Partially comatose during suffocative attack.
Partial unconsciousness, followed by free respiration and deep sleep.

Rush of blood to head.
Painful aching in vertex and down left side, with inclination to lie down.

Warm sweat breaks out on forehead while coughing.

Dull and glassy expression of eyes. θ Spasmus glottidis.
Staring eyes.
Dimness before eyes.
Running of tears < in open air.
Eyes protrude with coryza, sunken face and spasmodic cough.
Purulent ophthalmia.

Singing in ears.
Deafness. θ Typhus.

Dryness in nose before coryza.
Nose smoky or sooty. θ Typhus.
Corrosive feeling in corners of nose.
Nose completely stopped.
Sudden running in drops, of a sharp, corroding fluid, with tears in eyes, dry tongue, palate and fauces.
Nose discharged mucus freely.
Water dropped from left nostril, did not burn or excoriate skin.
Coryza with headache.
Fluid coryza very soon changes to yellow, copious phlegm.
Evening coryza, morning sneezing.
Severe sneezing.
Nasal complaints < lying down.

Face pale and bloated. θ Spasmus glottidis.
Pale, dirty yellow, cadaverous color ; face puffed up.
Face high colored.
Child became livid. θ Spasm of glottis.
Face extremely livid, blue.
Ash-colored face. θ Typhus.
Swollen face, with protrusion of eyes, abundant discharge of mucus from nostrils.
Warm sweat broke out on forehead while coughing.

Lips, tongue and teeth brown, black and sooty. θ Typhus.

Sensation as if teeth were too full, or had been injured by acids.
Teeth black.

Tongue dry. θ Typhus.
Sensation as if tongue had been burnt.
Tongue black.

Dryness of whole buccal cavity. θ Typhus.
Abundant discharge of mucus from mouth and nose.
Salivation.
Soreness of mouth, fauces and œsophagus, as if tongue had been burnt ; as if he had been eating vegetable acids, or as if his teeth had been injured by acids.
Sore mouth.
Increased vascularity and minute ulcerations in mouth and throat.
Opening mouth to take food or drink produced spasm of glottis.
Putrid odor from mouth. θ Stomacace.

Dryness of throat.
Inability to swallow.
Throat sore from uvula to bronchi, including fauces and œsophagus.
Throat and chest sore, voice hoarse.
Any attempt to examine the throat produced spasm of glottis.
Reported to have had a favorable effect upon the diphtheritic process.

Loss of appetite. θ Spasmus glottidis.
No thirst with coryza, but cold water is very serviceable.

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A solution, freshly prepared, of Chlorine Gas in cold water, is dilute for internal use.

From the few observations hitherto made, it would seem that spasm of the glottis is the marked feature of the action of the dug on the organs of respiration.

Compare Bromine; other symptoms may be compared with Iodine.

Old appearance. ▶ Loss of fat. ▶ Quantity of chlorides in blood increased, while the carbonates and other salts were lessened. ▶ Consumption. ▶ Sensation at 3 A.M., as before severe sickness. ▶ Inclination to lie down during the headache. ▶ Disinclination to rise in morning, and ill humor. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Nervous sensibility. ▶ Sensibility diminished. ▶ Exercise in open air agreed with him.

Anxiety; he could not speak. ▶ Fear of becoming insane, with loss of memory, everything seems confused. ▶ Irritability; in morning. ▶ The difficulty in recalling names is worse, and of recollecting persons when he sees their names.

Aching during coryza; A., agg. after dinner; threatened; in left side before the shuddering, agg. after dinner, at 2 P.M., with necessity to lie down, amel. walking back and forth, a lighter attack next day at the same hour. ▶ Crawling shuddering at 11 A.M., agg. at the back, agg. sitting with the back to the sun, then fever. ▶ Disagreeable sensation when shuddering. ▶ Vertigo and stupefaction. ▶ Painful wearing sensation in vertex and down left side, with inclination to lie down. ▶ Pressure in occipital protuberance, with burning.

Protruding. ▶ Lachrymation; on waking; during coryza. ▶ Dim during fever. ▶ Fantastic images suddenly floated before the eyes and disappeared with lightning-like rapidity.

Ringing in right (and dullness in left, which had been deaf for forty years.).

Sticking. ▶ Burning pain, with tension and dryness, and in eyes. ▶ Eroded sensation in corners. ▶ Dryness; with irritation in windpipe to cough, and pressure on chest. ▶ Sneezing. ▶ Stoppage of left nostril. ▶ Coryza in evening, next morning violent sneezing; C. in evening, agg. lying, sudden dropping of corrosive water, with lachrymation and dryness of tongue, palate and fauces, without thirst, but cold water is agreeable, with stoppage of nose while it flows; C., with headache and fever; with copious yellow discharge. ▶ Discharge of mucus; of corroding water; dropping of water from left nostril; flow from right nostril his left is always stopped. ▶ Smell lost.

Pale, often greenish. ▶ Heightened color. ▶ Bloated.

Sensation of fulness in teeth. ▶ Tongue dry and red. ▶ Articulation difficult. ▶ Increased vascularity and minute ulcerations in mouth and throat. ▶ Mouth, fauces and œsophagus sore, as if the tongue had been burnt, as if he had eaten vegetable acids, or as if his teeth had been injured by acids. ▶ Much mucus. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Saliva altered in quantity and character; acid. ▶ Taste febrile in morning, amel. rinsing mouth; not food to tobacco, smoking bites the tongue and causes dryness in mouth.

Choking sensation. ▶ Soreness from uvula to bronchi; S., and in chest, with hoarseness. ▶ Inability to swallow.

Appetite less evenings. ▶ Desire for wine increased. ▶ Nausea. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Acidity. ▶ Inflammation. ▶ Warmth. ▶ Sensitiveness of epigastrium to pressure.

Bile altered; increased. ▶ Colic. ▶ Weakness of abdomen mornings. ▶ Diarrhœa; in morning; twice in forenoon.

Frequent desire to urinate, but the urine is passed only in moderate quantities. ▶ Urine increased. ▶ Urine possesses bleaching properties; loses the power to redden litmus-paper. ▶ Sudden impotence, even sexual aversion.

▶ Spasms of glottis; of vocal cords. ▶ Irritation of epiglottis; of larynx and bronchi. ▶ Constriction, with suffocation. ▶ Inflammation, and of lungs; of bronchial mucous membrane. ▶ Bronchial catarrh. ▶ Warmth. ▶ Loss of voice; from damp air.

Some brilliant cures and laryngismus stridulous have been cured by the internal administration of a dilute solution of Chlorine Gas.

Cough; irritation to. ▶ Violent. ▶ Spasmodic. ▶ Paroxysms evenings as if he would have a cough, as if the pharynx were raw or becoming so. ▶ Whistling-wheezing. ▶ Dry, with at each cough soreness in a spot in region of right bronchus. ▶ In exhausting fits, with expectoration. ▶ With spitting of blood. ▶ With expectoration of thick, white, frothy mucus. ▶ Constant, with sensation as if bronchi were filled with thick, tenacious mucus, no relief from expectoration, with sweat on forehead, it seemed as if the effort to raise the mucus would empty the stomach, yet no nausea is felt. ▶ Expectoration; of mucus.

▶ Sudden dyspnœa from spasm of vocal cords, with staring eyes, blue face, cold sweat covering body, pulse small and soft, temperature sinking; D., with sensation of a band around lower third of chest. ▶ Suffocation; in paroxysms, often followed by catarrh; with violent cough, sensation of cramp in muscular fibres of bronchi, increased mucus, often with spitting of blood. ▶ Inspiration comparatively free but crowing, with obstructed expiration, livid face, convulsions of limbs and partial coma; inspiration unimpeded, but expiration impossible from closure of rima glottidis, inspiration crowing, the lungs becoming inflated to a painful degree, it seemed as if air might pass through walls of chest more readily than by larynx, face turgid and livid, partial coma; inspiration easy but insufficient, with short, rattling-crackling râle, expiration difficult, prolonged, insufficient, with prolonged, loud, whistling râles (a combination of many sounds), and each pulsation of heart gives a crescendo diminuendo effect to them; inspiration difficult and attended with râles. ▶ Whistling râles, which are quite loud on forced expiration. ▶ Anxious respiration. ▶ Respiration and heart's action increased.

In typhus the diluted Chlorine water has been given, especially when the tongue was extremely dry; it seems to relieve the profound prostration, the subsultus tendinum and extreme dryness of the tongue.

Hæmoptysis; and consumption. ▶ Pain. ▶ Contraction. ▶ Oppression, not amel. in open air; O. of lungs, agg. left. ▶ Affection of lungs, agg. right. ▶ Inflammation of lungs and air-passages. ▶ Sensation in lower and inner third of right lung as if ruptured, a feeling as if the air escaped into the pleural cavity at each inspiration, at each inspiration a râle at the quasi-ruptured place. ▶ Soreness internally, amel. cough.

Frequent. ▶ Diminished.

Jerking of muscles, drawing head backward.

Stiffness. ▶ Weakness of lower.

▶ Cutis anserina; and dry, yellow and shrivelled. ▶ Red and painful, becoming swollen and thickened as in facial erysipelas; with bruised sensation, then itching and desquamation. ▶ Accumulation of blood in capillaries, with heat. ▶ Determination of blood, with papillæ close together, which suppurate and vesicate or desquamate, agg. on back, loins, breast, abdomen and arms. ▶ Tetters. ▶ Inflammation and ulceration. ▶ Desquamation. ▶ Urticaria febrilis. ▶ Nettle-rash, white wheals in clusters, surrounded by diffuse redness. ▶ Minute vesicles all over skin, on the shoulders their bases nearly touch, then red and livid spots. ▶ Sensitiveness. ▶ Smarting. ▶ Sticking. ▶ Stinging, then symptoms as from cantharides, then soreness and bruised sensation, then itching and cuticle coming off in thick scales, as in psoriasis. ▶ Stinging as of nettles. ▶ Stinging as of insects, with sweat, rush of blood to skin, sometimes pimples or vesicles; intermittent S. as of insects here and there, on arm, back, abdomen and lower limbs. ▶ Itching; with increased sensibility.

Late falling asleep after every excitement, the following days early sleepiness.

Shivering; in evening in a warm room. ▶ Cold shudders over anterior surface of arms from 10 or 11 A.M. to 2 P.M., and over back and thighs, with dimness before eyes, then fever. ▶ Heat; when eating and afterwards, with irritability while drinking wine and coffee; of skin. ▶ Sweat; in sleep at night; critical.