chloral

• But to make his decline the consequence of the use of chloral, even when it was finally become habitual, as some do, is absurd. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
• ‘In the laboratory to which I shall send Laura’s bottle, the frog will be narcotised and its stomach washed out and chloral or bromide left in situ . —  Winking at the Brim - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 48: 1974
• He drank the beer and the chloral which was in it and mercifully remembered no more. —  The Case of the Late Pig - Margery Allingham - Campion 08 - 1937
• Once she heard with real regret that Lenore had lost her memory, and chloral was hinted at as the cause. —  The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
• Some patent medicines contain chloral, bromide and hyoscymus, and they have a large sale, being bought by persons of wealth, who do not know what they are composed of and recklessly take them for the effect they produce 6. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage

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