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Definition of Hypnotics
1. hypnotic [n] - See also: hypnotic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnotics
Literary usage of Hypnotics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"MISCELLANY hypnotics AND THEIR DANGERS. Dr. Nestor Tirard (Lancet, April n, 1903).
In a treatise on some dangers of hypnotics the author draws the following ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"hypnotics. FOLSOM has given an excellent and practical outline of the use of
hypnotics. Their use is recommended in acute disease, particularly fevers, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"For example, small doses of opium, or of one or other of its preparations, relieve
pain, whilst larger doses act as hypnotics, causing deep sleep passing ..."
4. Essentials of materia medica, therapeutics and prescription writing by Henry Morris, Sir Henry Morris, Walter Arthur Bastedo (1906)
"What are hypnotics ? hypnotics. hypnotics are remedies which are administered to
induce ... Name the principal hypnotics. Opium and its alkaloids; chloral; ..."
5. A Text-book of materia medica, therapeutics and pharmacology by George Frank Butler (1908)
"hypnotics. The term hypnotics has been applied to a group of substances capable of
... A large number of these hypnotics are members of the methane series, ..."
6. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"hypnotics (sleep producers), sometimes referred to as soporifics or ... From the
viewpoint of the pharmacologist, hypnotics can not be classified as a ..."
7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"... as hypnotics.—Dr. Samuel Gamier, head of the Dijon Asylum, has followed up
his careful experiments of 1888 on ..."
8. A Compend of Dental Pathology and Dental Medicine: Containing the Most by George Washington Warren (1903)
"hypnotics (sleep) belong to the class of narcotics, but are capable of causing
sleep without any ... The hypnotics are opium, the bromides, chloral, etc. ..."
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