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laudanum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tincture of opium |
| Type of | opiate |
Examples of laudanum
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Now, laudanum is essentially the earliest version of a sort of general painkiller.
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Williams's reported heavy use of laudanum may have been a contributing factor.
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Lizzie is introduced to laudanum by Emma Brown to alleviate her stomach pain.
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Dental problems left Washington in constant pain, for which he took laudanum.
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On the trip, Severn refused to let Keats take laudanum and hid the bottle.
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I'm now waiting for the return of laudanum as a painkiller and bleeding.
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Laudanum was cheaper than beer and regarded as scarcely more harmful.
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Hugely gifted, he was also scatterbrained, unreliable and, at the end, addicted to laudanum.
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Lizzie becomes increasingly hysterical due to her laudanum use and Rossetti's philandering.
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- Narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient
- Laudanum (also known as Tincture of Opium) is an alcoholic herbal preparation containing approximately 10% powdered opium (the equivalent of 1% morphine). It is reddish-brown in color and extremely bitter to the taste. ...
- A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug
- To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own; and that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others. You should cultivate determination. To prevent others from taking this drug, indicates that you will be the means of conveying great joy and good to people. ...
- Mixture of opium and alcohol used as a tranquilizer, pain-killer, or to induce sleep.
- A hydroalcoholic tincture containing ten percent opium. The first medicinal form of opium, laudanum was widely used through the 19th century for a variety of diseases and to quiet fretful babies and children, for it was available without a prescription. Among its addicts were S.T. Coleridge, E. ...
- Any medicinal preparation with opium as a primary ingredient.
- Opium in a solution of alcohol. It was both the "valium" and the ether of its day.
- [16] Laudanum, the name of a tincture of opium, a forerunner of modern heroin and crack, was coined by the 16th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus. ...
