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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

Justice Department charged that two of them had conspired to monopolize the $40 million-a-year market for meprobamate, better known as Miltown or Equanil.

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

All roads ashore may lead toward Miltown, but the buoyant water works its own tranquilizing magic.

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