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

As anodynes may be mentioned liniments and ointments containing salicylic acid or sodium salicylate in combination with laudanum, aconite, or chloral hydrate.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

By the early 1820's, the old English patent medicines, whether of dwindling British vintage or of burgeoning American manufacture, were as familiar as laudanum or castor oil.

From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.