I had one patient on a 12 hour flight from Hawaii to the US who had not been sufficiently sedated before the flight, but soon began to utter obscenities loudly for most of the flight, even after I gave him a
paraldehyde injection (the protocol recommended for the most extreme situation).
paraldehyde for her as a massaging gel, which smelt strongly of
As one or two doctors testified,
paraldehyde should never have been give to Davis--it had been seriously discredited many years ago as a treatment for alcoholism and god knows what else.
In the late 19th century, chloral hydrate and
paraldehyde, with characteristics similar to alcohol, were introduced into medical practice as sedatives.
On the 12th day medication was changed to chloral and
paraldehyde by gastric tube, with recovery following the last spasm on the 21st day.
The drugs administered to 17 patients included chloroquine, novalgin,
paraldehyde, procaine penicillin, and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine.
P List (a) U List (b) Epinephrine (adrenaline) P042 Chlorambucil (Leukeran) U035 Nicotine P075 Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan, Neosar, Procytox) U058 Nitroglycerine P081 Daunomycin (Dauorubicin, Cerubidine) U059 Physostigmine P204 Diethylstilbestrol U089 Physostigmine salicylate P188 Melphalan (Alkeran) U150 Warfarin > 0.3% P001 Mitomycin C (Mutamycin) U010
Paraldehyde U182 Phenacetin U187 Reserpine U200 Saccharin U202 Selenium sulfide U205 (e.g., dandruff shampoos) Streptozocin (Zanosar) U206 Uracil mustard U237 Warfarin (Coumadin) < 0.3% U248 (a) Representative P-listed drugs (some have other uses).