Brompton cocktail Brompton cocktail Brompton cocktail — sometimes called a Brompton mixture, Brompton's cocktail — is an elixir meant for use as a pain suppressant, and dosed for prophylaxis. Made from morphine or diacetylmorphine (heroin), cocaine, highly-pure ethyl alcohol (some recipes specify gin), and sometimes with chlorpromazine (Thorazine) to counteract nausea, it was given to terminally-ill individuals (especially cancer patients) to relieve pain and promote sociability near death. A common formulation included "a variable amount of morphine, 10 mg of cocaine, 2.5 mL of 98% ethyl alcohol, 5 mL of syrup BP and a variable amount of chloroform water." An alternative formulation
Tert-Butyl alcohol Tert-Butyl alcohol tert"-Butyl alcohol (TBA), also called tert"-butanol or "t"-butanol, is the simplest tertiary alcohol, with a formula of (CH)COH (sometimes represented as "t"-BuOH). It is one of the four isomers of butanol. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is a colorless solid, which melts near room temperature and has a camphor-like odor. It is miscible with water, ethanol and diethyl ether. "tert"-Butyl alcohol has been identified in beer and chickpeas. It is also found in cassava which is used as fermentation ingredient in certain alcoholic beverages. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is derived commercially from isobutane as a coproduct of propylene oxide production. It can also