Trional

Poirot finished his search by opening the little cupboard above the washbasin and taking a rapid glance at its contents-a sponge, face cream, powder and a small bottle labelled trional. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1933)

Kazmah used to supply cocaine and veronal and trional and heroin, but those who wanted to smoke opium he sent to ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)

Sulphonal, trional, morphia, each tried in turn had no power to prevent him from dreaming. ❋ Unknown (1907)

"Kings has got their worries, too, but when it comes to laying awake nights trying to figure out whether them designers somewheres in France is going to turn out long, full skirts or short, narrow skirts for the fall and winter of nineteen-nineteen and nineteen-twenty, Mawruss, I bet yer the entire collection of kings, active or retired, doesn't got to take two grains of trional between them." ❋ Montague Glass (1905)

Macbeth's case is a model of wisdom and discretion: the specialist that Queen Cordelia summoned to prescribe for her father, after giving him trional, or something of that nature, was careful to have his return to consciousness accompanied by suitable music. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)

I offered her some trional, and then -- I just lingered. ❋ Karl Anderson (1901)

On reaching the dome at 2 a.m., he had taken four tabloids, each containing 0·324 gramme of trional, and had drunk the glass of hot milk which Simon always left him in case he should want it. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

And I explained to her that Diaz had taken at least six doses of my strong solution of trional. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

So presently I took trional, X grs., and dozed off till morning. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

Quinine for the regular morning and evening doses, sulphonal and trional for insomnia, ether for injections in case of anemia after hemorrhage, morphine for delirium, citrite of caffeine for weakness of the heart, tincture of valerian for the tympanites, bismuth to relieve nausea and vomiting, and the crushed ice wrapped in flannel cloths for the cold pack in the event of hyperpyrexia. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)

He let her give him some trional to make him sleep, and then she went off to her bed again. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Now I must really have a trional and get some rest. " ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)