Metrazol

[ me-truh-zawl, -zol ]

Pharmacology, Trademark.

1. a brand of pentylenetetrazol.

Example Sentences

The first convulsive therapies in 1934 were induced not by electrical current but by medications, namely camphor and metrazol, that were injected into the muscle to cause brain seizures.

From Slate

“The hospital has pioneered in the use of insulin and metrazol, and also in the electric shock treatment, which has proved useful in shortening the average stay of patients,” the article read.

From New York Times

Metrazol, a synthetic drug so powerful that psychiatrists sometimes use it in shock treatments for schizophrenia, can sometimes shock into cooperation the heart and lungs of a split physiology like Edwin's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Davis was at the end of all his resources but one: metrazol.

From Time Magazine Archive

But then came insulin and metrazol, and now, in the last two years, have come two new drugs, chlorpromazine and reserpine, which are making thousands of supposedly hopeless cases of schizophrenia accessible to analytic techniques.

From Time Magazine Archive