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Laudanum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laudanum was a wildly popular drug during the Victorian era. It was an opium-based painkiller prescribed for everything from headaches to tuberculosis. Laudanum's biggest clam to fame however was its use by the romantic poets. Many of the Pre-Raphaelites (Among them Lord Byron, Shelly and others) were know to indulge.
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Laudanum, Edward D. Depew & Co., about 1880-1900 Laudanum, a solution of opium and alcohol, was commonly used as a painkiller and a sedative in 19th- and early 20th-century America.
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Famed "opium-eaters" such as Thomas DeQuincey were actually consuming laudanum — a mixture of alcohol and opium derivatives. Because of its easy, inconspicuous consumption, many Victorian writers and artists chose to satisfy their "yens" for opium by taking it in the laudanum form.
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It would have been better for me had they not done so, for I was naturally so tired-out at night that I could not sleep, and knowing that sleep would come easily with a little laudanum, One thing I would like to know, and that is -- whether you could tell that I had not left off laudanum that day we called.
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(lôd´ n m) (KEY) , tincture, or alcoholic solution, of opium, first compounded by Paracelsus in the 16th cent. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2007 Columbia University Press.
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In Praise of Laudanum PDF One of the elements of dramatic tension in the wonderful Master and Commander series of books is the relationship between the brilliant and resourceful ship’s surgeon, Dr. Maturin, and the laudanum with which he self-medicates.
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laudanum n. A tincture of opium, formerly used as a drug. [New Latin, perhaps alteration of Medieval Latin labdanum , labdanum In the 16th century, Paracelsus experimented with the medical value of opium. He decided that its medical (analgesic) value was of such magnitude that he called it Laudanum,
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