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paregoric
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par·e·gor·ic
/ ˌparəˈgôrik/
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a medicine consisting of opium flavored with camphor, aniseed, and benzoic acid, formerly used to treat diarrhea and coughing in children.
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Lawsuit alleges fatal paraegoric mix-up
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 3/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...tincture, which is commonly known as paregoric. Donna Marie Altieri's physician wrote...contains 25 times as much morphine as paregoric. The next day, she took one dose then...tincture of opium camphorated instead of paregoric. "The primary culprits are the pharmacy...
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Can quality nutrition services by delivered without eam support?
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Sidebar] HEADS UP! [Sidebar] Opium vs. paregoric [Sidebar] Recently, a 51-year...tincture (about 50 mg morphine) instead of paregoric. After the dose, the patient became...graduate confused that with opium tincture. Paregoric is dangerously referred to by its synonym...
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Drugstore, then and now
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 5/2/2004; ; 371 words
; ...fellow and had a bellyache, I recall my mom telling my dad to go get some Paregoric, which was pretty effective. Years later, I found out why when I looked up Paregoric in a medical dictionary that declared it to be a derivative of opium. Maybe...
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W.D. King, Henry Irving's Waterloo.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...a goodly portion of Shaw's review, "Mr. Irving Takes Paregoric," and a chronology beginning in I792 and ending in 1966...confuses his newly-arrived grandniece by a generation, drinks paregoric--"rare stuff to cut the phlegm"--remembers the commendation...
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More about pinpointed pupils.(MEDICAL MAILBOX)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post; 11/1/2005; ; 573 words
; ...friend says that the old home remedy for diarrhea, paregoric, contains opium and caused small pupils, too. Is...Brown Louisville, Kentucky Your friend is right. Paregoric, also known as camphorated opium tincture, was once...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Letter: Ffisig lleol; LLYTHYRAU.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 10/8/2008; 336 words
; ...am ei hen nain yn Ardudwy, yn enwi'r ffisig lleol at beswch fel 'Squills a Paregoric'. (sgwils a paregorig yn Gymraeg!) Squills - winwyn y mor, a paregoric - i leddfu a lliniaru (alleviate and soothe) yng ngeiriadur W Richards, a Spurrell...
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Letters
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 6/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...The letter published in your May 6 issue referring to the paregoric lawsuit discussed working conditions that are "potentially...excuses I am responding to your March 18 article about the paregoric mixup, which led to a patient fatality. It is not better...
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 "Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)")
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Clogged Sinuses? Sign In, Please: Cold Medicine Goes Behind The Counter.
Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT); 10/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...1970s a customer signature was required for the purchase of paregoric, an opium-based medicine that was used to treat diarrhea in children and teething pain in babies. Paregoric has since been pulled from the market. Contact Hilary Waldman...
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Altered States: opium and tobacco compared *.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...shop in Sheffield, recalled his mother preparing a black cough mixture in the 1920s: "It contained aniseed, peppermint, paregoric (Camphorated opium tincture), laudanum, a stick of black liquorice, and a pound of black treacle. She called it `All...
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INNERVIEWS: 'I love being a pharmacist'
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...store except for maybe six weeks at Lynch's Pharmacy in South Hills. I just did little menial things there, like pouring paregoric from the gallon into little bottles. I didn't even know what a birth control container looked like. "I had gone to school...
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paregoric
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
paregoric , alcoholic solution of opium and camphor first prepared in the 18th cent. Because of the constipating effect of opium, paregoric has been used to control diarrhea. It was formerly a constituent of many cough elixirs.
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opium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...narcotine are not. A tincture of opium is called laudanum ; paregoric is a mixture of opium, alcohol, and camphor. Effects and...promote sleep and alleviate pain; codeine suppresses coughing; paregoric stops diarrhea. Medicinal opiates were freely available in...
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Addicted Babies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...x2014;for weight gain. If symptoms continue or increase, medication may be initiated. Common medications include Paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium), or Phenobarbital for opioid withdrawal; Phenobarbital or Diazepam for alcohol withdrawal...
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Addiction
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...been used in many forms for hundreds of years. Tincture of opium, or laudanum, was introduced in about the year 1500. Paregoric, a familiar household remedy today, dates from the early 1700s. Heroin, a derivative of opium, has become a common addictive...
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Enteritis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
...and abdominal and rectal pain or discomfort. Antidiarrheal drugs are usually prescribed, such as Kaopectate, Lomotil, Paregoric or Imodium. Additionally, bile salt-retaining drugs may also be indicated, such as cholestyramine. Bowel cramps may...
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