Peritrate

[ per-i-treyt ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of pentaerythritol tetranitrate.

Example Sentences

Acting under orders from the Federal Drug Administration, a U.S. marshal last week visited a wholesale drug dealer in Queens, N.Y., asked if there was any Peritrate on the premises.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the FDA admits that the drug relieves the savage pain of the heart disease, it denies that Peritrate effects any actual cure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, in a recent advertising campaign, Warner-Lambert asks the question, "Is Peritrate life-sustaining?" and seems to answer it affirmatively by presenting charts based on a study by Dr. Alexander Oscharoff, head of the adult cardiac clinic at Queens Hospital Center.

From Time Magazine Archive

The charts indicate that heart patients treated with Peritrate stand a 22% better chance of being alive two years after a heart attack than those who were given a placebo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Oscharoff himself says: "At no time did I claim that Peritrate is the lifesaving, dramatic drug that the advertising makes it."

From Time Magazine Archive