Chloral is a powerful drug that has been much resorted to by unthinking persons to produce sleep.

There are also numerous varieties of commercial disinfectants now in popular use, such as Platt's chlorides, bromo-chloral, sanitas, etc., which have proved efficient germicides.

anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.

'Yes, she does; but she has been ordered chloral.

I told him that that was strange, for you were taking chloral.'

She had thought it over, and had decided that it would be unendurable to live any longer, and had borne many a terrible insomnia so that she might collect sufficient chloral to take her out of her misery; and now, as she sat thinking, she remembered that she had never, never been happy.

The moment she got into her room she wrote the following note: 'I have taken an overdose of chloral.

Having hung up her dress, she fetched a chair and took various doses of chloral out of the hollow top of her wardrobe, where she had hidden things all her lifesweets, novels, fireworks.

Through much suffering, thought and sensation were, to a great extent, dead in her; and, in a sort of emotive numbness, she laid her candlestick in its usual place on the chair by her bedside; and, sitting up in bed, her night-dress carefully buttoned, holding the tumbler half-filled with chloral, she tried to take a dispassionate survey of her life.

Then she felt she must go, and without hesitation drank off the chloral.

She had no more chloral.

Between nine and ten o'clock the same evening Kent was walking the floor of his room, trying vainly to persuade himself that virtue was its own reward, and wondering if a small dose of chloral hydrate would be defensible under the cruel necessity for sleep.

I am obliged to keep something, sulphonal or chloral, by me, on purpose.

"After you had taken your dose of chloral?" "No, before.

" During the evening Rossetti asked him to remove to London and invited him to his house; at the same timeit may be to prepare him for their common lifehe showed him, to Caine's horror, what a slave he had become to the chloral habit.

Her hostess, careless through familiarity with it, had given her a dose of one of the chloral mixtures "to let her have a good night's sleep"; but instead it had sent her into hysterics, and she was calling wildly for her mother to come and take her home.

I recommended him to try chloral, then a nearly new remedy which I had used by prescription with excellent effect for my own sleeplessness, and which I always carried with me.

No doubt chloral was ultimately one of the agencies of his prostration, though not of his death, but he did not have recourse to it until his power of recuperation from overwork had begun to fail;

and, when he had become accustomed to the effect of the chloral, he took it as the means of a form of intoxication, a form well understood by those who have had any experience, personal or by observation, in the use of the drug.

But to make his decline the consequence of the use of chloral, even when it was finally become habitual, as some do, is absurd.

And at that time he had not yet contracted the habit of taking chloral.

With reference to this fact, the author, in 1885, made experiments with alcohol and strychnine, and continued his researches in the use of chloral and aconitine with results favorable to the method employed, which is as follows: The minimal fatal dose of a given poison was selected, and found to be in a certain relation to the body weight.

The author succeeded in rescuing animals poisoned by alcohol, strychnine, chloral, and aconitine.

CHLORAL, a colourless narcotic liquid, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol; treated with water it produces chloral hydrate.

CHLORAL, a colourless narcotic liquid, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol; treated with water it produces chloral hydrate.