Librium
Americannoun
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Librium was introduced in 1960 and promptly outsold its predecessors, the barbiturates, because it had fewer side effects.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2012
Marketing, essentially — which was first put into action with Librium, one of those evocative drug names that pharmaceutical companies invent.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2012
The Roche chemist who had originally stumbled upon Librium, Leo Sternbach, went back to the lab and tweaked the compound.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2012
Hoffmann-La Roche, for example, developed a tranquilizer with the generic name chlordiazepoxide, but sells it as Librium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though the firm became the first to synthesize vitamins, among other feats, it was the development of Valium and Librium in the early 1960s that made it a leading pharmaceutical company.
From Time Magazine Archive
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