| 释义 |
Ritalin Pharm.|ˈrɪtəlɪn|
Also ritalin.
A proprietary name (orig. used in Switzerland) for the drug methylphenidate hydrochloride, a central nervous system stimulant related to amphetamine; methyl-α-phenyl-α-piperid-2-ylacetate hydrochloride, C14H19NO2·HCl.
The appearance of the word in trade-mark literature predated the introduction of the drug by a number of years.
1949Trade Marks Jrnl. 1 June 477/1 Ritalin... Pharmaceutical preparations for use in the treatment of the nervous system. Ciba Limited..manufacturers and merchants.—28th May 1948. 1949Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 16 Aug. 594/2 Ciba Limited, Basel, Switzerland. Filed July 9, 1948. Ritalin. Applicant claims ownership of Swiss Registration No. 107,093, dated Mar. 28, 1944. 1954Chem. Abstr. XLVIII. 8945 Ritalin..has a psychomotor excitatory effect, producing psychic stimulation and a coördinated increase in motility in exptl. animals. 1955Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. LXI. 101 This new drug, phenidylate—phenyl-(α-piperidyl)-acetic acid methyl ester (Ritalin)—is a synthetic preparation which could be described as a psychoanaleptic, a mental and physical stimulator which..seems to counterbalance the reserpine-depressing activity. 1970Daily Tel. 30 June 3/1 The United States Food and Drug Administration has urged doctors to exercise extreme caution in prescribing Ritalin because of the danger of addiction. Ibid. 3 Dec. 13 More than 200 youngsters regularly visited his surgery and home and were given National Health Service prescriptions for the ‘soft’ drugs drynamyl, ritalin and mandrax. 1976H. Ferguson Confessions Long Distance Acid Head 7 Apart from cannabis, I have used barbiturates,..procaine, ritalin, even apomorphine once. |