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Miltown

American  
[mil-toun] / ˈmɪlˌtaʊn /
Pharmacology, Trademark.
  1. a brand of meprobamate.


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Meprobamate is an anti-anxiety medicine marketed under the brand names Miltown and Equanil.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 2022

Behind this action lies a growing disillusionment with Miltown on the part of many doctors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: Does this fence we're "learning to walk" by any chance parallel the road to Miltown?

From Time Magazine Archive

The backlog of unfilled orders is at once the pride and despair of Wallace Laboratories in New Brunswick, N.J., makers of Miltown, and Philadelphia's Wyeth, Inc., which calls the same drug Equanil.

From Time Magazine Archive

A numbed dreariness descended on the house, everyone moving in slow motion in the gloom of Miltown and recent events.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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