250 EFFECTS OF CHLORIDE OP HYDROCARBON. 
minutes, there was no more sickness or vomiting, and the 
pulse gradually sunk down to its natural standard ; and a 
few minutes after the cliild was expelled, and while the 
mother still slept, her pulse was counted at 80. Next day 
the mother and infant were both well, and she has made a 
good recovery. 
While these experiments prove the strong anaesthetic pro- 
perties of bisulphuret of carbon, they at the same time show 
its disadvantages. I have not alluded to another strong 
drawback upon its use, viz., its very unpleasant odour. '*It 
has (says Dr. Gregory) a peculiarly offensive smell of putrid 
C'dhh'dge,'^ — {Outlines of Chemisiry ^ p. 130.) By dissolv- 
ing various essential oils in the bisulphuret I tried to over- 
come this disagreeable defect, but without much success. 
None of the five aneesthetics which I have mentioned in 
the present communication, are, I believe, comparable with 
chloroform or sulphuric ether, either in their manageable- 
ness or m their effects. And the after-consequences which 
all of them tend to leave, are too severe and too frequent 
to admit of their introduction into practice. They are more 
interesting physiologically than therapeutically. — Pharm- 
Journ.'ffrom Monthly Journ. 
