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Hypnotics and Sedatives

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111 images from works
  • Welcome to the new day : morning freshness assured after restful sleep with Doriden.
  • For prompt but short hypnosis.
  • Sea cual fuere la indicación para el uso de la fenotiazina : usted encontrara que Siquil es mejor, mas inocuo... mas potente... mas facil de administrar / Squibb.
  • Veronal : neues vorzügliches Hypnoticum.
  • Boyer. : Eau des carmes : 16, Mark Lane London : beware of conterfeits.
  • The 'ideal' sedative at last? : Sedaltine : safe, non-barbituric, sedative, muscle relaxant, anti-tensive ; in stress and insomnia / Clinical Products Ltd.
  • When you prescribe 'Aventyl' for depression you take a load of two minds.
  • "Doctor, I feel awful" : once, she might have been diagnosed as "anxiety state" : 'Aventyl' lightens the troubled mind.
  • The 'ideal' sedative at last? : Sedaltine : safe, non-barbituric, sedative, muscle relaxant, anti-tensive ; in stress and insomnia / Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Sedaflorina / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.
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Works from the collections

216 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Soma Research Association

    | Date: c. 1968-1969 | Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/385
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Books

    Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

    Kuhn, Cynthia. | Date: [1998], ©1998
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Manchester Council for Voluntary Service

    | Date: c.1986 | Reference: SA/DRS/B/2/130a
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Ephemera

    Lanes Kalms : this leaflet tells you some important things about Kalms tablets / G.R. Lane Health Products.

    G.R. Lane Health Products. | Date: 1995
    • Books

    On the sedative powers of the Datura stramonium / [James Begbie].

    Begbie, James, 1798-1869. | Date: 1862
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Related topics

Drugs
Drug Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Inhalant Abuse
Cannabis
Heroin
Ethanol
Amphetamines
Narcotics
Rehabilitation

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