PAREGORIC

pârˌəgôrˈĭk, alcoholic solution of opium and camphor first prepared in the 18th cent. Because of the constipating effect of opium, paregoric has been used to control diarrhea. It was formerly a constituent of many cough elixirs.

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books on: Paregoric  - 194 results

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These Are Our Lives
Book by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia; The University of North Carolina press, 1939
Subjects: Southern States--Social Conditions
...and she did. She give me a big dose of paregoric and it eased me right away. Fact is...out of a two or a four ounce bottle of paregoric. And lady, for awhile them days was...Then come along the narcotic laws and paregoric got hard to git. By that time a half...
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Drugs and Drug Policy in America: A Documentary History
Book by Steven R. Belenko; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Drug Abuse--Government Policy--United States--Sources, Drug Abuse--United States--History--Sources, Narcotics, Control Of--United States--Sources
...besides the drug itself, laudanum, paregoric, sulphate of morphia and, occasionally...punctures of the injecting instrument. Paregoric is also largely used as a stimulant...quite common, having quite displaced paregoric in the nursery. The basis of what is...
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The Medical Malpractice Myth
Book by Tom Baker; University of Chicago Press, 2007
Subjects: Actions And Defenses--United States, Insurance, Physicians' Liability--United States, Physicians--Malpractice--United States
...opium tincture camphorated, commonly known as paregoric, but the pharmacist gave her opium tincture...twenty-five times the amount of morphine as paregoric. This means that taking a paregoric-size dose of laudanum can be fatal. As the...
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Drugs in America: A Social History, 1800-1980
Book by H. Wayne Morgan; Syracuse University Press, 1982
Subjects: Drug Abuse--United States--History
...and their names are Godfreys Cordial, Paregoric, and Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup...and also the most easily obtainable, paregoric." 51 Many addict-memoirists thought...nursery," as William Rosser Cobbe called paregoric. 52 Similar and stronger apprehensions...
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Our Theatres in the Nineties - Vol. 1
Book by Bernard Shaw; Constable and Company Limited, 1932
Subjects: Acting, English Drama--19th Cent--History And Criticism, Fiction, Theater--England--London
...second childhood!" He gets a bronchial attack and gasps for paregoric, which Miss Hughes administers with a spoon, whilst our...tearful smiles. "Is there another living actor who could take paregoric like that?" The sun shines through the window: the old...
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journal articles on: Paregoric  - 11 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
...3/5; II 180). * I prescribed a paregoric soothing draught to allay the violence...flooding should return, to swallow the paregoric draught already prescribed; in which...syrup of saffron I also prescribed a paregoric pain relieving draught to be taken at...
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Innocent Addicts, Dope Fiends and Nefarious Traffickers: Illegal Drug Use in 1920s English Canada
Journal article by Catherine Carstairs; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 33, 1998
Subjects: 1920-1929, Attitudes, Canada, Canadian history, Drug abuse, Drug addiction, History, Language, Laws & regulations, Literary criticism, Narcotics, Social conditions & trends
...put behind penitentiary walls and drug users were finding it difficult to obtain their drug of choice. Many were turning to paregoric or codeine as a substitute." Many Chinese drug users had been deported and, with the number of Chinese in Canada declining...
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Why Do Babies Cry?
Journal article by Aletha Solter Phd.; Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology Journal, Vol. 10, 1995
...would sleep. Popular preparations containing opium were readily obtained from pharmacists under the names of "Laudanum," "Paregoric," and "Godreys cordial." Many infants became addicted, while others died from overdoses (Kitzinger, 1989). Nowadays...
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"When You Got True Dirt You Got Everything You Need": Forging an Appalachian Arcadia in Fred Chappell's Midquest
Journal article by George Hovis; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Appalachian Region--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chappell, Fred--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Farm life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Midquest (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...list of cousins in their "natural" states includes drunks, womanizers, a "Jackleg" preacher, and a great aunt named Paregoric Annie who would beg for drug-money by removing her glass eye and asking for assistance in replacing it. Fred idealizes...
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Robert Browning's "Saul"; Strains through the Array
Journal article by Joseph A. Dupras; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 49, 2011
Subjects: Browning, Robert (British poet)--Criticism and interpretation, Browning, Robert (British poet)--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Saul, King of Israel--Portrayals
...including an irreducible, daemonic force. Brownings dramatic lyrics tie an intercalated biblical passage about temporary paregoric measures to scriptural verification of Davids relationship with "the Christ" (2 Samuel 7.8-16 and Acts 2.25-36...
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magazine articles on: Paregoric  - 16 results

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Lawsuit Alleges Fatal Paraegoric Mix-up
Magazine article by Carol Ukens; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, March 18, 2002
Subjects: CVS Corp, Drug overdose, Drug stores, Litigation, Narcotics, Prescription drugs, United States
...tincture, which is commonly known as paregoric. Donna Marie Altieris physician wrote...contains 25 times as much morphine as paregoric. The next day, she took one dose then...tincture of opium camphorated instead of paregoric. "The primary culprits are the pharmacy...
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Letters
Magazine article; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, June 17, 2002
...The letter published in your May 6 issue referring to the paregoric lawsuit discussed working conditions that are "potentially...excuses I am responding to your March 18 article about the paregoric mixup, which led to a patient fatality. It is not better...
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Vietnam: Twilight for the Troopship
Magazine article by David Grover; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, February 2004
...medical care; although the source of the epidemic was never located, we did not have to divert anywhere else in search of paregoric. The venture to Vietnam proved several things, to me if not to the Navy. One was that the Navy was not particularly talented...
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Letters
Magazine article; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, May 6, 2002
...broyles@bgfh.com Demand better conditions I have quite a bit to say about your March 18 article "Lawsuit alleges fatal paregoric mix-up," but Ill try to keep it short. I used to be a pharmacist for CVS in Connecticut and would "float" through most...
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Careless Pharmacists Can Face Manslaughter, Lawyer Warns
Magazine article by Judy Chi; Drug Topics, Vol. 142, April 20, 1998
Subjects: Manslaughter, Medical malpractice, Pharmacists, United States
...Liverpool, England, when a pharmacist was charged with criminal homicide for dispensing a vial of laudanum, instead of paregoric, to a child, who died. Several criminal suits have been filed against pharmacists in the United States. In a 1947 case...
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newspaper articles on: Paregoric  - 2 results

 
 
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Underground Railroad's Poignant Connections; D.C. Area Boasts Many Links to Freedom Route
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 3, 2006
...300 souls, including members of her own family, to the Northern states or to Canada armed with a pistol and a bottle of paregoric (to keep the babies quiet.) Of course, Maryland was just one part of a route where the only border that really mattered...
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To the Ends of the Earth; Television
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 30, 2005
...privileges on the boat, including the services of a manservant who returns him to the real world by means of draughts of paregoric. What are its properties? enquires the much revived young man. Opium, sir, replies his man. As the long voyage progresses...


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encyclopedia articles on: Paregoric  - 2 results

 
 
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Paregoric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAREGORIC par gor ik, alcoholic solution of opium and camphor first prepared in the 18th cent. Because of the constipating effect of opium, paregoric has been used to control diarrhea. It was formerly a constituent of many...
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Opium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...narcotine are not. A tincture of opium is called laudanum ; paregoric is a mixture of opium, alcohol, and camphor. Effects and...promote sleep and alleviate pain; codeine suppresses coughing; paregoric stops diarrhea. Medicinal opiates were freely available in...


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