chloral hydrate

And the hospital had prescribed the maximum dose of chloral hydrate for the other child, allowing additional doses if needed.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2023

One-ounce doses of chloral hydrate per rectum should be given if the patient is violent or if muscular spasms are severe.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

When mixed with water, chloral hydrate causes a considerable degree of cold; and, as with camphor, small fragments of it placed on the surface of water exhibit gyratory movements.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Treatment.—Cause vomiting, with warm salt water, warm mustard water, lard, vaselin, etc.; sixty grains of bromide of potash and thirty grains of chloral hydrate by the rectum.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

This done, Rich returned the chloral hydrate to the shelf, and took down another bottle labelled quin. sulph. sol.

From The Bag of Diamonds by George Manville Fenn