Brown glass, circle based, jar with black plastic screw cap and paper label. Containing 100 Seconal Sodium brand of quinalbarbitone sodium tablets. Quinal barbitone is a short acting barbiturate and was used in simple insomnia and in anxiety It was also used as pre-anaesthetic medication of children. Each of these tablets are 'Enseal tablets' which are coated with a vegetable fibre wax-mixture and thus timed to disintergrate in four to seven hours.
Details
- Category:
- Materia Medica & Pharmacology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A664684
- type:
- bottle and quinalbarbital
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
