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Barbiturates

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Images about Barbiturates

15 images from works
  • For prompt but short hypnosis.
  • Noctinal butabarbital sodico Frosst : hipnotico inofensivo de acción rapida y sedativa : intensificador de los analgesicos, sin efectos secundarios / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; representantes para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • Sedation and hypnosis with Lilly barbiturates.
  • Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • Noctinal butabarbital sodico Frosst : hipnotico inofensivo de acción rapida y sedativa : intensificador de los analgesicos, sin efectos secundarios / Charles E. Frosst & Co. ; representantes para Cuba: Distribuidora Cubana.
  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • For prompt but short hypnosis.
  • Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
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Works from the collections

26 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Alberta Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Commission (AADAC) (part 1)

    | Date: 1973-1994 | Reference: SA/DRS/D/3
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

    | Date: 1958
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist

    Spilsbury, Bernard | Date: c.1880s-c.1950s | Reference: PP/SPI
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Dr Elizabeth ("Betty") Tylden (1917-2009) and Dr George Douglas Morgan (1899-1985

    Tylden, Dr Elizabeth (1917-2009), MA, MB BCh, MRCPsych, FRSM, MEWI | Date: 1930s-1990s | Reference: PP/TYL
    • Ephemera

    Drug advertising ephemera. Box 34.

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Related topics

Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug Industry
Hypnotics and Sedatives
Analgesics
Ethanol
Drugs
Cocaine
Crime
Cannabis
Hypnotics and Sedatives

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