laudanum

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But then so did the telephone, the railway, internal combustion, photography, laudanum, mirror glass, fire, television, gunpowder, the crossbow, distillation, the slingshot, the bridge high across a foaming ghyll.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2016

Geraldine Chaplin brandishes a whip, Charlotte Rampling swigs laudanum, Mathieu Amalric inhabits an "elevator apartment," and Maria de Medeiros is an absurdly gullible mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2016

Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be a mistake to ascribe the paralysis of Coleridge's powers of constructive imagination exclusively to laudanum.

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I did not give you laudanum, but a harmless mixture instead, and followed you to see if my surmise was correct.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Libbey, Laura Jean