"SNEEZING WHILE UNDER CHLOROFORM."

Death under Chloroform

Psychogenic sneezing and yawning.

A DIVORCED Negro woman of about 40, complaining of violent spasms of sneezing and a compression sensation in the chest, was referred to me for diagnosis and to determine whether a causal relationship existed between her condition and the substances with which she worked. The claimant stated that she began sneezing on the first day that she worked with a gunpowder mixture. Occasionally the attac...

The history of sneezing.

progress with its repetitive nature depicting it as an uninterrupted spiral. The history of sneeze is however neither of these but rather represents a closed circle. In the Talmudic text, the Mishnah, 'sneeze' was described as a dialectic summation of a thesis and antithesis combining the bad with the good. Sneezing in this concept means a unity of the bad, fearful omen and the good 'salvation'...

Zolpidem-induced sneezing

INTRODUCTION Zolpidem, as an imidazopyridine, is a widely prescribed drug in clinical practice for short-term treatment of insomnia. Nevertheless, there have been a number of cases associated with the adverse effects of the stated drug recently. Further to the existing reports of adverse reactions to zolpidem, the current script is going to report a case in which zolpidem has induced acute repe...

Pneumomediastinum after sneezing.

A previously healthy 37-year-old man with an upper airway viral infection presented with a progressive onset of neck pain with odinophagia and pretracheal tenderness after repetitive sneezing efforts. Upon examination, cervical subcutaneous emphysema was the only finding. The chest radiograph confirmed the presence of pneumomediastinum. Cervical and chest CT scans performed during a Valsalva ma...