medicine: bemegride

bemegride description








Bemegride (also known as Megimide) is a central Nervous System stimulant and antidote for barbiturate poisoning.

John Bodkin Adams case

For more details on this topic, see John Bodkin Adams#Gertrude Hullett.

Bemegride is notable in legal history as the drug suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams failed to prescribe correctly to his patient Gertrude Hullett. Hullett took an overdose of barbiturates on 19 July 1956 but Adams only gave her a single 10cc dose of bemegride three days later on the 22nd, despite having acquired 100cc for her treatment. Hullett died the next day on 23 July 1956. Adams was charged but never tried for her murder.

Animal use

Bemegride is also used to induce convulsions in experimental animals.

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