Some Diseases Cancer, Pregnancy

Cancer Laboratory tests showed ether in May have the potential to cause cancer, but whether it produces the substance of animals is not known.

Pregnancy.
Drugs have caused congenital malformations and fetal death in chicken embryos in the experiment, but the impact on humans is not clear. Women's exposure to the industry that is more likely to suffer spontaneous abortion. Ether passes from pregnant women to the fetus, but not exposed to chronic and acute medical exposures known to cause birth defects.



Care baby seems unharmed by susu of women using ether. Additional information. "Petroleum ether" ether and medicine is a different matter.

Additional scientific information can be found at:
Connell, K.H. "Drinking in Ulster ether." Quarterly Journal Studies on Alcohol 26 (1965): 629-53.



Nagle, D.R. "Anesthetic Addiction and intoxication: A Historical and Contemporary Survey." International Journal of Addictions 3 (1968): 25-39.

Strickland, R.A. "Ether drinking in Ireland." Mayo Clinic Proceedings 71 (1996): 1015.