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Chloralism   Listen
noun
Chloralism  n.  (Med.) A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chloralism" Quotes from Famous Books



... which you describe yourself as having swallowed must have amounted to at least eighty grains of the pure hydrate. This would of course have reduced you to a partial state of insensibility, gradually going on to complete coma. In this semi-unconscious state of chloralism it is not unusual for circumstantial and bizarre visions to present themselves—more especially to individuals unaccustomed to the use of the drug. You tell me in your note that your mind was saturated with ghostly literature, and that you had long taken a morbid interest in classifying and ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various



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