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A drug, popular as a narcotic and anodyne, composed of chloroform, morphia, tincture of Indian hemp, prussic acid, and other substances.
Trade-name of the synthetic narcotic drug diethylsulphonemethylethylmethane, CH3(C2H5)C(SO2C2H5)2, resembling sulphonal.