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
Then I began to think of the laudanum, and wet cloth, I told thee of long ago; and to call myself in question for a tenderness of heart that will never do me good.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
He writes that a miner gave $24 in gold-dust for a box of seidlitz powders; another paid a dollar a drop for laudanum to cure his toothache.
From Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman
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