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    What types of salt were used as sedatives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

    Question #102330. Asked by author. (Jan 14 09 2:48 PM)


    McFlyFave

    		Potassium bromide (KBr) is a salt, used as an anticonvulsant and a sedative in the 1800s.
    http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Potassium-bromide

    Jan 14 09, 4:32 PM
    author

    		This is correct.

    Also sodium bromide was used.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bromide

    Jan 14 09, 11:37 PM
    zbeckabee

    		Bromide compounds, especially potassium bromide, were frequently used as sedatives in the 19th and early 20th century. This gave the word "bromide" its colloquial connotation of a boring cliché, a bit of conventional wisdom overused as a sedative.

    Lithium bromide was used as a sedative beginning in the early 1900s, but it fell into disfavor in the 1940s when some heart patients died after using it as a salt substitute.

    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2424120#id330811

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromide

    Jan 14 09, 11:38 PM

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