Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read
Crisalida, Salvador Dali and the Game Changing Drug

Like most folks I’d never heard of the drug Miltown, and was never aware of a Salvador Dali painting entitled Crisalida that promoted this drug.
The pharmaceutical name is Meprobamate invented by Frank Berger in the 40s and marketed as Miltown by Wallace Laboratories and Equanil by Wyeth including many other companies. It was the most popular minor tranquilizer but was replaced by the benzodiazepines, and all the others existing…

