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acetanilid

n. (alternative form of acetanilide English)

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acetanilid

n. a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic [syn: acetanilide, phenylacetamide]

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Never take any sleeping powders except upon the advice of a physician, for the majority of these sleeping powders contain some harmful drug, as morphine, codeine, phenacetin or acetanilid.

In the end, a reporter for Collier's magazine, together with a government chemist, finally exposed the elixir as an addictively lethal blend of chloroform, cocaine hydrochloride, acetanilid, and botanicals.