Chloroform Inhalations and Injections of Air in Ileus. By Merz.—
A girl, aged 27, up to the present time in good health, was suddenly
seized with stercoraceous vomiting without obvious cause. After nar-
cotics and mild drastic purgatives had been tried without avail, injec-
tions of air per anum were administered, with the effect of mitigating
her distress. Then chloroform was inhaled so as to produce complete
paralysis, when a rumbling or rolling of the bowels ensued, followed by
discharge of faecal-smelling flatus and copious evacuations; the patient
recovered.—Med. Times and Gaz., from Schw. C. Ztschr., 1853.