A short-acting barbiturate that is effective as a sedative and hypnotic (but not as an anti-anxiety) agent and is usually given orally. It is prescribed more frequently for sleep induction than for sedation but, like similar agents, may lose its effectiveness by the second week of continued administration. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p236)
    

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Calcidrine syrup.

Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).

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

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

Calcidrine syrup.

Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).