(190)Chlorination of Paraldehyde or Acetaldehyde to Chloral I

Chloral Hydrate and Paraldehyde as Drugs of Addiction

drug by a physician. Instead of giving their patients rational treatment, i.e., investigating fully the causes leading to sleeplessness and removing them, medical men often resort to the easier course of giving powerful chemical substances with a soporific action. Again, certain manufacturers of medicinal drugs employ on. their staff medical men and others who carry on an extensive propaganda b...

Intramuscular Paraldehyde

Effect of chloral hydrate and acetaldehyde on mitochondrial preparations from sweet potato.

The inhibitory effects of chloral hydrate and acetaldehyde have been studied on oxidations performed by mitochondrial preparations of sweet potatoes (Ipomea batatas). With a variety of substrates, chloral acts very like amytal but only between a fifth and a tenth as effectively; it affects those reactions which would be expected to depend on the oxidation of intramitochondrial DPNH, more than t...

Chloral and Chloral Hydrate

These substances were considered by a previous Working Group, in February 1995 (IARC, 1995). Since that time, new data have become available and these have been incorporated into the monograph and taken into consideration in the present evaluation.

Chloral and Chloral Hydrate