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Methylenum Bichloratum

Methylenum Bichloratum
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Exclusively Documented in Allen

This remedy is documented exclusively in Allen's Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica. It does not appear in other classical references in this encyclopedia.

🎯 Acts primarily as a potent anesthetic agent affecting the central nervous system and respiratory function.
About: Methylene bichloride is a chemical compound historically utilized for its rapid anesthetic properties. Its clinical profile is derived primarily from observations of its effects during surgical procedures, focusing on the induction of deep sleep and respiratory impact.
👤 Constitution
•Not defined in the source material, as clinical data is limited to acute toxicological and anesthetic observations.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Rapid induction of anesthesia, often within twenty to thirty seconds.
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Transition from initial consciousness to deep narcotism is extremely brief.
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Deep sleep resembling natural slumber upon recovery.
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Respiratory failure or convulsive gasping in fatal cases.
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Post-operative bilious vomiting.
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Retraction of the tongue into the throat during deep anesthesia.
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Increased secretion of saliva following irritation of the throat.
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Eructation and fluid discharge from the mouth during anesthesia.
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Anesthesia can be maintained for extended periods without readministration.
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Recovery characterized by a return to full consciousness.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
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⚙️Generals
Used in clinical settings for the rapid induction and maintenance of deep anesthesia.
METHYLENUM BICHLORATUM. - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D. Main THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D. Presented by Médi-T METHYLENUM BICHLORATUM. Methylene bichloride, CH 2 Cl 2 . (Chloroform is Methylene trichloride.) Authorities. 1 , Dr. Richardson, Med. Times and Gaz., 1868, effects of inhalation
  • •2 , Dr. Burroughs, Br. Med. J., 1870, p. 515 ;
  • •3 , Bost. M, and S. J., 1870, fatal case ;
  • •4 , Gaine, Med. Times and Gaz., 1871, p. 232..
The anaesthesia having been carried very deeply, the tongue of the patient was retracted into the throat, and after pulling it forward there was a free secretion of saliva, followed by an eructation, and about a dessertspoonful of fluid from the mouth
  • •this might have been excited by the irritation communicated to the throat in pulling up the tongue, or it might have been from the anaesthetic (in one case), [1] ..
Bilious vomiting (in one case, ten hours after operation far vesico-vaginal fistula), [1] .
Anaesthesia in half a minute, [2] .
Anaesthesia in legs than half a minute, [2] .
The shortest time in which anaesthesia was produced was twenty seconds, in a child
  • •the longest two minutes and a half ;
  • •in a man, aged twenty-four ;
  • •the shortest time which it was maintained was forty seconds, the longest thirty-five minutes, [4] ..
In each case, the transition from the first to the third degree of narcotism was very brief
  • •when the anaesthesia, which was complete in an average of five minutes, was well established, it was easily prolonged for six, and even seven minutes, without readministering the vapor, and when recovery began to show itself, very brief readministration quickly reproduced the insensibility ;
  • •the period of narcotism averaged from thirty-five to forty-five minutes ;
  • •in one case after the operation, the patient continued twenty-seven minutes in unbroken sleep, and then awoke with entire consciousness ;
  • •in one case it allowed the lady to drop to sleep precisely as in natural sleep, and to wake with all her senses aroused as after natural slumber, [1] ..
After two or three convulsive gasps, the patient expired, [3] .
📚 Sources & References
✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaClarke's DictionaryPhatak's Concise MM

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