Thorazine

The great drummer Hera has left his band for a “self-regarding minimalist duo” called Thorazine, but she agrees to play one final show — if the Earl, her ex, manages to turn up.

The nursing homes sedated the “captives,” as the Los Angeles Times called them, with Thorazine and collected government checks for their stays.

The Times hailed the drug’s “humanitarian and social significance,” and Time magazine compared Thorazine to the “germ-killing sulfas,” groundbreaking drugs developed in the 1930s and 1940s to fight off bacterial infections.

Chlorpromazine, also known as Thorazine, is the only drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat hiccups, although some clinicians also may use anti-seizure medications to try to control them.

In that case, he responds, “I’ll leave you a bottle of Thorazine.”