sulphazinsulfazinn.
Pharmacol.
A drug consisting of a suspension of one per cent purified sulphur in peach oil, given intramuscularly to induce fever.
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sulphazin1970
1970 Time 29 June 30/3 A Soviet drug called Sulfazin, which induces fever and temperature, is administered as a punishment.
1977 Lancet 23 July 185/1 There are reports of the use of sulphazin to produce a painful fever.
1979 H. Fireside Soviet Psychoprisons iv. 82 If a patient speaks out against such brutality, he is subjected to punishment by overdoses of drugs or injections of sulfazin that make it ‘painful for him even to stir’.
1981 M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. xii. 185 Sulfazin was one of the favorite narcotics of the KGB.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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