A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic

Usage examples of phenacetin.

Doreen Betts had specified phenacetin instead of the common household remedy.

Between the time the prescription was made up and the day before, or a few days before, or a week before she died, she took forty tablets of phenacetin, leaving sixty in the bottle.

Or, to put it bluntly, some time before June second someone removed those sixty tablets of phenacetin and substituted sixty tablets of aspirin.

He went to his room and took off his coat, wondering whether a phenacetin would cure his headache or merely make him sick.

Certain drugs are unobtainable, but the British have lost none of their old enthusiasm for medicine-taking, and the consumption of aspirin, phenacetin, etc.

Ask for a pain-killer and they give you something with a bit of codeine and a trace of phenacetin as though it were morphia, and practically make you sign the poison book.

In addition to these, we have sent half a ton of phenacetin and about seven tons of absorbent cotton-wool.

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.

Sarah explains that she's been taking three Bex powders a day for thirty years and the phenacetin has had an insidious effect which has been chronic for some time but has now reached end-stage kidney failure.

Then about half-past three Mother said she'd got a headache-that was the onset of the stroke but she didn't know that, she put it down to the paint-and would he fetch her a couple of her phenacetins from the bathroom.

Then about half-past three Mother said she'd got a headachethat was the onset of the stroke but she didn't know that, she put it down to the paintand would he fetch her a couple of her phenacetins from the bathroom.