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laudanum
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lau·da·num
/ ˈlôdn-əm; ˈlôdnəm/
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an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller.
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Laudanum/Stormcrow: "Sacred Death".(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Magazine article from: Thrasher; 7/1/2009; 327 words
; LAUDANUM/STORMCROW "Sacred Death" Split 12" EP (20 Buck Spin)--The ultimate...of sludge death crust noise. First off: two fine lengthy choice outs by Laudanum. They're the grand opus of doomed noise insurgent metal. As for Stormcrow...
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Madness, love and laudanum
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB). This fiction was preferable to Rossettis last vision of Lizzie: horribly thin, blue from drinking laudanum, a suicide note pinned to her nightgown. Franny Moyles riveting Desperate Romantics is stamped with such moments. Theres...
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Laudanum.(RICKTER SCALE OF DOOM)
Magazine article from: Thrasher; 5/1/2008; 298 words
; Invoke 7-inch (PyratePunx RecordsMy favorite Oakland trio of doom returns with the highly requested, recorded version of their bludgeoning song "Invoke." Their first release. The Apotheker, still shines as a monolithic giant of the underrated band of sludge monarchs.
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THE BEST GHOSTLY SPINE-CHILLERS ; Tales And Mysteries Of Laudanum (no cert)
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 12/6/2006; 249 words
; THREE short cinematic adaptations of tales of horror from the 19th century American Gothic poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe. Susannah York stars in The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1966), the first eerie tale, followed by The Imp Of The Perverse, above, (1975) and The Tell-Tale Heart
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VICTORIAN VALUES Forget images of staid Victorians drinking tea and enjoying nights around the piano. In a new book, Matthew Sweet reveals they liked nothing more than a pipe packed with opium, hashish in their chocolates and cocaine running around their brains. Even Mrs Beeton was a laudanum pusher
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; Three days after Christmas 1889, a 64-year-old man coughed his last in a lodging house under the arches of the London and Blackwall Railway. He was taken to Ratcliff mortuary, a low building behind the graveyard of St George's-in-the-East, Shadwell, where he lay on the slab for a week. The coroner
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Drugs and inspiration.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Venice Treacle, Mithridate, Sydenham Laudanum, Dr. Bate's Pacific Pill, London Laudanum, and so on" (Hayter, 1968: 25). In...household had some, usually in the form of laudanum--that is, mixed with alcohol--and...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Everyone did it; History of narcotics.('The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000')(Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/24/2001; 700+ words
; ...because he was shocked by the quantities of laudanum (opium in alcohol) sold by country...IV's "ungovernable" affection for laudanum (and cherry brandy) horrified the increasingly...middle classes: he needed 100 drops of laudanum before he could face Lord Aberdeen...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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BOOKS: Drugs rain down on his parade; Baudelaire in Chains - a portrait of the artist as a drug addict, by Frank Hilton, Peter Owen pounds 22.50. Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/24/2004; 700+ words
; ...quickly become the sport of syphilis, laudanum, drunkenness and indigence.' It has...ebb of existence by a combination of laudanum abuse and poverty. 'What a frightful...dealer who supplied the poet with enough laudanum for three or four weeks. Stomach pains...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Probe into woman's death; STEVEN MOORE delves into the News Letter archives and discovers some of the items that made headlines on this date earlier this century. These articles will run daily until the year 2000.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 10/27/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...his wife was habituated to the use of laudanum. She had never said that she would do...house, and found a bottle labelled, ''Laudanum - poison.'' Mr McNaught, chemist...He found symptoms in the stomach of laudanum poisoning, but there was no smell of...
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COMMENTARY: 'Castlevania' offers bite of Gothic culture, history
News Wire article from: University Wire; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...to frequently prescribe a drug called Laudanum. The opium-based painkiller, an alcoholic...themselves to death. Even more women used Laudanum to pale their complexions and ease the...of menstruation. Shelley herself used Laudanum, along with other poets and writers...
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laudanum
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
laudanum XVI — modL. laudanum , Paracelsus's name for a medicament for which he gives a pretended prescription of costly ingredients but which was early suspected to contain opium, whence the gen. application to opiate preparations; perh. alt. of LADANUM .
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opium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...papaverine and narcotine are not. A tincture of opium is called laudanum ; paregoric is a mixture of opium, alcohol, and camphor...but fears of its addictive potential have limited its use. Laudanum was used in the 1800s to promote sleep and alleviate pain...
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Opium
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
...and treat strangulated bowel obstruction. Sydenham developed laudanum, a preparation of opium dissolved in sherry and flavored with...amounts of the drug that users were taking as compared with laudanum. Gradually, the addictive properties of opium and morphine...
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dentistry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...anaesthetics to abolish the pain of surgery. However, opium and laudanum (tincture of opium) were freely available ‘over...William) wrote: ‘ I had toothache in the night. Took laudanum .’ In 1844, an American dentist, Horace Wells...
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Dover's Powder
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...century practitioner and teacher, who originated the formula for Laudanum, another early and popular opium-based medicine. Dover...Sydenham and thereby his acquaintance with the benefits of laudanum (an alcoholic tincture of opium). Dover's ingenious use...
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