Dr Kerr, who had a surgery at the Williamwood Medical Centre in Clarkston, Glasgow, for 30 years, prescribed sodium
amytal to five other patients, although four of them did not suffer from insomnia.
Hence, drugs such as sodium pentothal and sodium
amytal hardly
Chemical and surgical techniques seemed to offer real possibilities for lessening the mental disorders of war: either by barbiturate sedatives such as sodium
amytal, coma-inducing insulin injections, electroconvulsive therapy and surgical intervention by leucotomy (William Sargant at Belmont), or by psychoanalytically inspired sessions of drug therapy (Michael Foulkes at Northfield).
Fisher said that the child denied that Jackson abused him until he was administered the drug sodium
amytal which is known to induce false memory.
It is small credit to Zopaclone, which I now take (after Sodium
Amytal, Mogadon, Mandrax and Halcion were, each in turn, considered too dangerous) that, come 2.30am, I am still groping for the last one or two courses, and it is strange how often the ones I forget are in the Midlands: Towcester, Stratford, Hereford, Worcester, Ludlow, Wolverhampton, Uttoxeter, Southwell, Nottingham .
An 'improved version', phenobarbital (Luminal) followed in 1912 and was later joined by the likes of pentobarbital (Nembutal), secobarbital (Seconal) and amobarbital (
Amytal).
The cases proceeded under the belief that when people are repeatedly brutalized, their memories can be completely repressed into the unconscious and later reliably recovered with hypnosis, dream interpretation, sodium
amytal, or other therapeutic "memory work." In fact, no credible scientific support has been found for such claims.
Donald Cooper, M.D., wrote to the editor in the July/August issue to "correct" the chronology of sodium
amytal related to an article about him in the preceding Saturday Evening Post issue.