Chloric Ether, a name sometimes given to Dutch liquid, or bichloride of ethylene, and also erroneously applied to chloroform by its discoverer, Mr. Guthrie of Sackett's Harbor. At present it is applied to the preparation of-ficinally known as spiritus chloroform!, and composed, according to the "United States Dispensatory," of one measure of chloroform in between eight and nine of strong alcohol. A "strong chloric ether," which consisted of one part chloroform and two of alcohol, was used by Dr. John C. Warren of Boston by inhalation, as an anaesthetic in some 50 cases, and was supposed by him to be safer than chloroform. But in fact it possesses no advantages over the more commonly used anaesthetics, and it is at present but little employed for that purpose. The officinal preparation is a convenient one for the internal exhibition of chloroform, the effect of which is perhaps slightly modified by the stimulant action of the alcohol it contains. Half a dram to a dram may be given (diluted with water) as a dose. If the British preparation of chloric ether, which contains much less chloroform than the American, be used, the effect of the alcohol will be more marked than that of the chloroform.

As a sedative and mild anodyne, chloric ether may be used with advantage in nervous restlessness, sleeplessness, and spasmodic affections, especially of the air passages.