Librium Pharm.
(ˈlɪbrɪəm)
Also librium.
The proprietary name of a white crystalline compound, C16H14N3OCl.HCl, used as a tranquillizer.
| 1960 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 15 Mar. tm 90/1 Hoffman–La Roche Inc...Librium for psychotherapeutic agent. 1968 New Scientist 21 Mar. 623/2 Hostile tendencies can often be remarkably controlled by drugs, like Librium and diazepam, which are not sedatives, and which do not depress the general level of cerebral activity. 1970 Times 22 Sept. 10 In the first cafe he went into someone sold him six librium pills. ‘It was my sort of cafe, my sort of people—of course they had gear.’ 1972 T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1973) xvi. 228, I decided the pills Dolly had left with Julio were Librium. I use them when the shakes get bad. 1975 N. Mitchison All change Here ix. 92, I took a tablet of librium, but had the father and mother of a nightmare. |