paregoric

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At 10, she would scrape opium-based paregoric powder from old medicine bottles.

From Washington Times

The administration of alcohol to infants, of gin and whiskey, of essences of peppermint and anise, to relieve colic or induce sleep, and the dosing with opiates like paregoric, are also well-established causes of idiocy.

From Project Gutenberg

"I trust I shall not be paregoric to him," said Pillgrim.

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The mighty monarch, whose renown Fills up the stately page historic, Has howled to waken half the town, And finished off by gulping down His castor oil or paregoric.

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She said that if she couldn’t get him, she should take the professor, for he was just as handsome and could talk about something beside paregoric and postmortem examinations.”

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