406 Appendix. 



Statement of Prof . Ives. 



Dear Sir — I have witnessed the effect of the chloric ether, with 

 which you were so kind as to furnish me, and in some other instances 

 where you had furnished individuals who wished to try its effect. 



I have given it to a female, 60 years of age, who had been subject 

 to severe paroxysms of pain in the chest and difficulty of breathing, 

 called asthma. The paroxysm, for which I gave the chloric ether, 

 was thought more severe than any she had had before ; she took the 

 remedies, as she had ordinarily taken them, previous to the use 

 of the chloric ether, without very obvious effect. The chloric ether 

 was given in doses of half a tea-spoon full, once in two hours, for twelve 

 hours. It was given in the course of the night, and in the morning 

 the patient was very much relieved, more suddenly than she had been 

 in any previous illness of the kind. The patient and the friends at- 

 tributed the speedy and effectual relief to the chloric ether. It ap- 

 peared to me that the ether was the efficient article that had produced 

 the relief. 



Mr. D. W. with pulmonic disease, has inhaled the chloric ether 

 to obviate general debility and difficult respiration. The article has 

 been effectual to obviate those symptoms, its immediate effect beside 

 giving relief, is that of giving a pleasant sensation. 



I have given the chloric ether to children in the ulcerated sore 

 throat. A child of Mr. P. was attacked with ulcerated sore throat, 

 (called scarlet fever ; Rosalia of Dr. Good,) this child died on the 

 fifth day. This child took no chloric ether, indeed, it was so de- 

 ranged that it was difficult to administer any medicines. A brother 

 of the same child attacked with similar disease, had deep ulcers in the 

 throat, and high fever with derangement. The chloric ether was given 

 every two hours in doses of thirty drops, diluted with an ounce of 

 water ; the child was at all times ready to take this medicine, and it 

 was continued until the fever abated. The child began to mend after 

 the fifth day. The ether was thought to allay the irritation in the 

 nervous system, abate the heat of the skin, and to have a good effect 

 upon the ulcers in the throat. 



This patient recovered very rapidly. 



1 have given the chloric ether in several other cases of scarlet fever 

 in cases of adults, giving it in doses of a tea-spoon full, diluted with 

 water. I have been pleased with the operation of this ether, it is dif- 

 fusible in its action like the other ethers, it posseses the peculiar prop- 



