LAUDANUM

lôdˈənəm, tincture, or alcoholic solution, of opium, first compounded by Paracelsus in the 16th cent. Not then known to be addictive, the preparation was widely used up through the 19th cent. to treat a variety of disorders. Many literary and artistic figures, including Coleridge, Poe, Moussorgsky, and De Quincey, are known to have been addicted.

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books on: Laudanum  - 1115 results

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The Moonstone
Book by Wilkie Collins; Press of the Readers Club, 1943
Subjects: East Indians--England--Fiction, England--Fiction, Jewelry Theft--Fiction, Police--England--Fiction
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Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol. 3
Book by Earl Leslie Griggs, Samuel Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Clarendon Press, 1959
Subjects: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--1772-1834--Correspondence, Poets, English--19th Century--Correspondence
...fortnight I have been obliged to take Laudanum almost every night. On 8 November of...year he took between 60 70 drops of Laudanum to relieve a severe attack of neuralgia...Poole that he was taking 25 drops of Laudanum every five hours. If we accept his own...
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The Moonstone
Book by Wilkie Collins; Oxford University Press, 1928
Subjects: Detective And Mystery Stories, English
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Victorian Romantic
Book by Oswald Doughty; Yale University Press, 1949
Subjects: Drama, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel--1828-1882
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The Moonstone
Book by Wilkie Collins; Pyramid, 1950
Subjects: Fiction
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journal articles on: Laudanum  - 99 results

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Dr Smellie's Prescriptions for Pregnant Women
Journal article by Robert Woods; Medical History, Vol. 52, 2008
Subjects: William Smellie
...immediately swallowed 15 drops of liquid laudanum in a teacup full of mintwater; and I...LD 23) Laud. Liquid, gut. xv. liquid laudanum Confect. Fracast. 3ij. M. Diascordium12...nutmeg water Laud. Liquid, gut. x. liquid laudanum Syr. e Meconio. ...ss. syrup of white...
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Damsels, Dulcimers, and Dreams: Elizabeth Barrett's Early Response to Coleridge
Journal article by Robin L. Inboden; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 46, 2008
Subjects: Barrett, Elizabeth--Criticism and interpretation, English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, English poets--Criticism and interpretation
...begun her lifelong opium habit, using laudanum to ease pain and bring on sleep. As her...opium. (8) Whether or not the use of laudanum actually inspired "opium dreams" that...addition of alcohol to opium (constituting laudanum) might cause such vivid dreaming, as...
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Troubling Fields: The Opium Poppy in Egypt
Journal article by Joseph J. Hobbs; The Geographical Review, Vol. 88, 1998
Subjects: Egypt--Environmental aspects, Narcotics--Egypt, Opium poppy--Egypt
...discomfort he consumed an anodyne, probably several swallows of laudanum (a tincture of opium), the panacea of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...his creativity. By 1800 the poet was swallowing two liters of laudanum a week, and his writing ceased (Scott 1969). As it did with...
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Clouds of Glory: the Ruling Passion as Key to the Artist
Journal article by Anca Vlasopolos; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 8, 1980
Subjects: Flowers & plants, Love, Poetry, Poets
...green waters reflect the green bottle of laudanum which occupies Coleridges thoughts and...all three grow irritated by the lack of laudanum-Coleridge drank it all, Wordsworth needs...gloomy atmosphere-takes a green bottle of laudanum from Saras ear. Again, he sees himself...
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The Rocky Road to a "Drug Free Tennessee": A History of the Early Regulation of Cocaine and the Opiates, 1897-1913
Journal article by Jeffrey Clayton Foster; Journal of Social History, Vol. 29, 1996
Subjects: Narcotic laws--History, Narcotics--Social aspects, Tennessee--Social aspects
...and charged that "morphine, opium, and laudanum are poisons, and will kill with as much...Faheys bill to "opium, morphine, and laudanum," also introduced a measure restricting...old widow and mother who began using laudanum to palliate a uterine condition and to...
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magazine articles on: Laudanum  - 42 results

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Opium
Magazine article by A. Alvarez; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Spring 2001
Subjects: Opium habit--History, Opium--Social aspects
...usually mixed with alcohol in the form of laudanum, and used it as an analgesic for aches...toothache, and hysteria. Shelley drank laudanum to calm his nervous headaches, Keats...earliest "dark satanic mills" swilled laudanum on Saturday nights because it cost less...
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False History, Gas Chambers, Blue Smoke, and Cracked Mirrors
Magazine article by Brian Siano; The Humanist, Vol. 53, July 1993
Subjects: Antisemitism--Influence, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion
...critical, we mightve won. Lizzie Borden was acctually acquitted of murdering her parents, mainly because she was zonked out on laudanum while they were being chopped into cutlets. The famous story of how Thomas Huxley screwed Archbishop Wilberforce into the ground...
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"A Jelly Minus Its Mould"
Magazine article by Ben Downing; New Criterion, Vol. 17, June 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 (Book)--Reviews, Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 (Book)--Reviews
...Coleridge took a deep breath, opened his laudanum decanter, and collapsed. None of the...friend once met him stealthily scoring laudanum at his chemist while Byrons funeral cortege...erratic, and centrifugal long before laudanum made him more so. Coleridge reports of...
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Robert Browning's Private Life
Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, September 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Browning: A Private Life (Book)--Book reviews
...done. One central incident apart, Brownings life was not an exciting one. It was, frankly, dull. His abduction of the frail, laudanum over-dosed and addicted, forty-year-old, marcescent spinster of Wimpole Street was his apogee, and it has been so ceaselessly...
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George IV and Posterity
Magazine article by Steven Parissien; History Today, Vol. 51, March 2001
Subjects: England--Kings and rulers, George IV, King of England--Evaluation, Kings and rulers--Evaluation, United Kingdom--History, 1714-1901 (Hanoverians)
...years the ailing King simply withdrew into a fantasy world of laudanum and chinoiserie. It is sad that one of the most gifted of...bravely tried to decipher a consistent plan in the monarchs laudanum-and-cherry-brandy-fuelled protestations, seeing in Georges...
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newspaper articles on: Laudanum  - 79 results

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The Grave-Robbing, Wife-Swapping, Drug-Taking, Suicidal Madness Behind This Extraordinary Masterpiece ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 17, 2007
Subjects: Painters, Painters (Artists), Ruskin, John--Criticism and interpretation, Suicidal behavior
...the Victorian eras most popular drug, laudanum. Seven years later as the coffin lid...for which she took deadening amounts of laudanum, Lizzie withdrew into a world of her...fading fast. Beside her was an empty laudanum phial and pinned to her nightgown was...
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The Icing on the Fake; Critic's Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 29, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...birthplace of Welsh culture. Addicted to laudanum, the aspirin of the 18th century and...scarcely legible scribble. Also partial to laudanum was The Marvellous Boy Thomas Chatterton...was, in fact, an accidental overdose of laudanum and arsenic prescribed for the pox. Grains...
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Children's Books; Ivy by Julie Hearn. Oxford University Press. Pounds 5.99. Reviewed by Jayne Howarth
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 22, 2006
Subjects: Children's books
...good. But Ivys life is full of torment. She is addicted to laudanum, thanks to a terrifying episode in her childhood. She was snatched...keep her quiet, Carrotys boss, Fing Nolan, drugged her with laudanum. She eventually returned home, but no amount of the opiate...
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Was the Creator of Sherlock Holmes a Scheming Poisoner ?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 25, 2005
...It is alleged that, in 1907, Mr Robinson was poisoned with laudanum, administered by his wife Gladys under the instruction of Sir...remuneration for his efforts. He then suggested she should slip him laudanum, as he knew its symptoms were similar to typhoid. Mr Spiring...
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Viewpoint: My Shout
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 24, 2005
Subjects: Jones, Edward
...publisher George Thomson; Berlin scholar Samuel Spicker; celebrated harper and antiquary Edward Jones, and ex-stonemason, poet and laudanum addict Iolo Morgannwg (Edward Williams). Yet, without them, ultra-famous Beethoven would never have composed settings for...
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encyclopedia articles on: Laudanum  - 9 results

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Laudanum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAUDANUM lod n m, tincture, or alcoholic solution, of opium , first compounded by Paracelsus in the 16th cent. Not then known to be...
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Hypnotic Drugs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...drugs that induce sleep, sometimes called soporifics. In general, hypnotics are central nervous system depressants . Alcohol, laudanum (see opium ), bromide salts, and herbs such as valerian have been used as hypnotics. Barbiturates and benzodiazepines...
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Opiate Drug
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to relieve pain and induce sleep, they include codeine , morphine , the morphine derivative heroin , and, formerly, laudanum . Sometimes included in the group are certain synthetic drugs that have morphinelike pharmacological action. All opiates are...
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Opium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...papaverine and narcotine are not. A tincture of opium is called laudanum ; paregoric is a mixture of opium, alcohol, and camphor...but fears of its addictive potential have limited its use. Laudanum was used in the 1800s to promote sleep and alleviate pain...
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Sydenham, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...determine the nature of disease and introduced the use of such drugs as cinchona bark (containing quinine) in treating malaria, and laudanum in treating other disorders. See studies by J. F. Payne (1900) and D. Riesman (1926); K. Dewhurst, Dr. Thomas Sydenham...
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