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Barbiturates
Beginning in the early 1900s, decades before Miltown or benzodiazepines, barbiturates broke ground as a synthetic sedative for everyday people. Popular sedatives in the 19th century had included chloral hydrate, bromides, and paralde-hyde, which were variously limited by foul taste, ...
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