Trional
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Trional (Methylsulfonal) is a sedative-hypnotic[1] and anesthetic drug with GABAergic actions[citation needed]. It has similar effects to sulfonal, except it is faster acting.[2]
History
[edit]Trional was prepared and introduced by Eugen Baumann and Alfred Kast in 1888.[3]
Cultural references
[edit]Appeared in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and other novels such as John Bude's The Lake District Murder as a sleep-inducing sedative; and in In Search of Lost Time (Sodom and Gomorrah) by Marcel Proust as a hypnotic. Sax Rohmer also references trional in his novel Dope.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Trional". Merck's 1907 Index. New York: Merck & Co. 1907. p. 448.
- ^ Sajous CE (1896). "General Therapeutics". Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences. 5. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis: A-156.
- ^ Drinkwater H (1924). Fifty years of medical progress, 1873-1922. New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 40.
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