Usage examples (5)

• Bromine became the next big thing in 1857, followed by barbital, the first of the barbiturates.
• A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead after a night's exposure in some lonely spot.
• Sodium barbital - Sodium barbital is a short-acting barbiturate used intravenously to induce unconsciousness in patients about to undergo surgery.
• In "The Jumping-off Place," about San Diego as the nation's suicide capital, epitome of native anguish and exhaustion, he concludes with a black parody of the all-American...