Veronal

He watched Bones as he opened his medicine chest and shook out two little white pellets from a bottle marked "Veronal," and accepted them gratefully.

The Keepers of the King's Peace Edgar Wallace 1903

Never a man skilled at self-preservation, Birkeland began to drink too much whiskey, take large doses of Veronal (a highly addictive and damaging barbiturate prescribed for insomnia) and slide into a twilight of excessive work, paranoia and illnesswith no one to stop him.

A Conversation with Lucy Jago, author of The Northern Lights 2010

It was one of the reporters who held up an empty tube of Veronal.

Maigret Afraid Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1953

A vial of Veronal lay broken on the carpet where she had dropped it.

Maigret's Rival Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1944

Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.

Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

She took out of a drawer in her dressing-table a case of medicinal cachets marked "Veronal."

Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889