Rhodanide - 27-10-2016 at 04:42
Edit: Should have been created in reagent and apparatus acquisition, sorry!
Hey all, good afternoon.
I have gone to a foot doctor for a few things the past few years, and there's been a bottle of Ethyl Chloride that's used for numbing by evaporative
cooling.
It looks like this: http://cdn.shopmedvet.com/images/large/RXETHYL-FINE.jpg
I want it, but can't find it anywhere besides what it's sold as. Ethyl Chloride by Gebauer.
Is there anywhere else I can find this? Is this type of bottle sold under a specific name? I'm not as interested in the contents as I am the bottle
itself. Help, pls?
-Azide
[Edited on 27-10-2016 by Tetra]
[Edited on 27-10-2016 by Tetra]
Bert - 27-10-2016 at 09:21
eBay, of course! 
http://m.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-CANADIAN-ETHYL-CHLORIDE-P...
And several other interesting spray dispensers too.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Gebauers-Ethyl-Chloride-Anesthesia...
zed - 27-10-2016 at 14:07
Such bottles are used for a physical therapy technique called "Spray and Stretch". Freons used to be materials employed. Alas, I think no more.
Those Freons were either outlawed or rendered prescription. I have a few such bottles laying around the house, but couldn't in the current legal
climate, transfer them. They are still charged with coolant. And, while in the old days, I could buy and own them, without being an MD., that
might not be the case now. Says "Prescription Only" on the bottle, but once upon a time....that really just meant legitimate use. Now? Who
knows?
Ask your foot doctor to save you an empty. It could happen.
PS....I checked. Here is a link to current sale guidelines.
http://www.gebauer.com/sprayandstretch
[Edited on 27-10-2016 by zed]
[Edited on 27-10-2016 by zed]