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Seconal Pharm.|ˈsɛkənæl, -əl| Also seconal. [f. secondary a. + allyl.] A proprietary term for secobarbital. Also, a tablet of this.
1935Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 July 727/2 Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis... Seconal. For products of secondary amyl allyl barbituric acid and the sodium salts thereof..useful as hypnotics. Claims use since Apr. 11, 1935. 1937Jrnl. Amer. Pharmaceut. Assoc. XXVI. 1248 It was concluded that ‘Seconal’ had a shorter duration of action and that its minimal anesthetic dose and minimal lethal dose were smaller than those of ‘Sodium Amytal’. 1938Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Feb. 218/1 Seconal. 1950E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees ii. 11 He was also anxious to lie down and take a seconal. 1958‘A. Bridge’ Portuguese Escape xiii. 217 She swallowed some Seconal with a gulp of water. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 214 Drugging myself into sleep with an overload of seconal. 1965G. Marx Let. 12 Oct. (1967) 68 At 8 we take two Seconals, three aspirin and a shot of LSD. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 176 ‘What did you give him?’ ‘Half a Mandie, a Seconal—I can't remember—and two Mogadon, I think.’ |