Bromine became the next big thing in 1857, followed by barbital, the first of the barbiturates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry of Calm] Reference

A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead after a night's exposure in some lonely spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Room] Reference

Sodium barbital - Sodium barbital is a short-acting barbiturate used intravenously to induce unconsciousness in patients about to undergo surgery.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

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 Whitmaniacal catalogue: they stuff up the cracks of their doors and quietly turn on the gas; they go into their back sheds or back kitchens and eat ant-paste or swallow Lysol; they drive their cars into dark alleys, get into the back seat and shoot themselves; they hang themselves in hotel bedrooms, take overdoses of sulphonal or barbital; they slip off to the municipal golf-links and there stab themselves with carving-knives; or they throw themselves into the bay, blue and placid, where gray battleships and cruisers guard the limits of their broad-belting nation-already reaching out in the eighties for the sugar plantations of Honolulu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claremont.org] Reference

(hepatic enzyme is not induced by pheno - barbital or 3-methylcholanthrene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference