Brompton cocktail of opioids both to combat the somnolence from the painkillers and to boost their pain-killing ability. However, a 1979 study in the "Canadian Medical Association Journal" found no statistically significant advantage in pain suppression, confusion, nausea, or drowsiness to the Brompton mixture versus a solution of morphine. 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
Isoamyl alcohol Isoamyl alcohol Isoamyl alcohol (also known as isopentyl alcohol) is a colorless liquid with the formula (CH)CHCHCHOH. It is one of several isomers of amyl alcohol. It is an ingredient in the production of banana oil, an ester found in natre and also produced as a flavouring in industry. It is a common fusel alcohol, produced as a major by-product of ethanol fermentation. It is also an ingredient of Kovac's reagent, used for the bacterial diagnostic indole test. It is also used as an antifoaming agent in the chloroform:isomyl alcohol reagent. Isoamyl alcohol is used in a phenol–chloroform extraction mixed