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chloral hydrate

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knockout drops
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And the hospital had prescribed the maximum dose of chloral hydrate for the other child, allowing additional doses if needed.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2023

One-ounce doses of chloral hydrate per rectum should be given if the patient is violent or if muscular spasms are severe.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

When such eggs are treated with a weak solution of sodium cyanide or chloral hydrate, they return to the resting condition.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

Treatment.—Cause vomiting, with warm salt water, warm mustard water, lard, vaselin, etc.; sixty grains of bromide of potash and thirty grains of chloral hydrate by the rectum.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Strychnine is much less likely, however, to save life after poisoning by chloral hydrate, than chloral hydrate is to save life in poisoning by strychnine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various


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