Nikethamide is a stimulant which mainly affects the respiratory cycle. Widely known by its former trade name of Coramine it was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses before the advent of endotracheal intubation and positive-pressure lung expansion.
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