uraliumn.
/jʊˈreɪlɪəm/ Medicine.
= ural n.2
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > hypnotic > specific drugs
codeine1833
codeia1834
chloral1838
paraldehyde1857
hypnone1886
chloralamide1889
sulphonal1889
uralium1889
ural1891
thymacetin1892
chloralose1893
chloretone1899
hedonal1900
veronal1903
Medinal1908
barbitone1914
barbital1919
Sedormid1928
benzodiazepine1934
hexobarbital1941
hexobarbitone1941
glutethimide1955
Placidyl1955
Mogadon1956
chlordiazepoxide1960
nitrazepam1965
flurazepam1968
medazepam1968
lorazepam1969
Rohypnol1971
flunitrazepam1973
triazolam1973
methapyrilene1974
Halcion1975
1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 609/1 Gustavo Poppi, a medical student of Bologna, recently described..the effects of a new hypnotic, which he proposes to call ‘uralium’.
1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 609/1 Uralium induces sleep more quickly..than any other known hypnotic.
1891 Lancet 3 Jan. 46/1 Uralium or chloral-urethane..has recently been carefully tested.
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