On Subcutaneous Injection of Chloral in Asthma

is so striking, that I have no doubt when its use in this form is better known it will be eagerly sought for by those who are liable to attacks of the disease. The following is a case of this sort in which the effect was very strikingly manifested :? A scantily clothed woman was carried into the dispensary one cold morning and deposited on the floor, her painful efforts to breathe absorbing all her attention, and rendering her quite unable to give any account of herself; from her friends it was learnt that she had been suffering for some weeks past from more or less difficult breathing which had culminated in the present most severe attack some twenty hours previously. Solution of chloral containing three grains in twenty minims of water,