Veronal

/ ˈvɛrənəl /

noun

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Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.

For those who have opium, cocaine, veronal, or heroin to sell can always find a ready market in London and elsewhere.

It is the sodium salt of the more or less favorably known hypnotic, Veronal (diethyl-barbituric acid).

Now this new and wonderful discovery is nothing but Veronal-sodium (sodium diethyl-barbiturate) under another name.

I went; and, drugged with veronal, I slept—slept dreamlessly—for fourteen hours.

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