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Metrazol

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Met·ra·zol  (mtr-zôl, -zl, -zl)
A trademark used for the drug pentylenetetrazol.
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Noun1.Metrazol - a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant; larger doses cause convulsions in shock therapy; Metrazol is a trademark
medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine - (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease


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He first used potentially toxic camphorated oil injections, and later tried pentylenetetrazol, commercially known as either Cardiazol or Metrazol, but neither succeeded.
Then came the shock treatments: insulin, metrazol, and electroshock; lobotomy, which won the 1949 Nobel Prize; and then the drugs.
The poem describes some of Solomon's exploits: who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy, and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational therapy pingpong and amnesia, (I.
 
 
 
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