laudanum

IPA: ɫˈɔdʌnʌm

(pharmacology) A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.

Examples of "laudanum" in Sentences

The true gum opium, and laudanum, which is its tincture, are derived from Eastern
Paracelsus created the narcotic opium, which he called laudanum, for his patients.
"To be sure I did, to calm down the pain; and that was what I call laudanum and Mr Briscoe here calls opium."
A tin of Blue Pills, so labeled, and a bottle, not labeled, but recognizable, of black draught-laudanum, that is.
Meanwhile, the tansy powder would do Clifford no harm, and the laudanum was a proper treatment for this acute period.
And one of the things she did to help herself during this period was to take laudanum, which is a kind of opium derivative.
As to the tincture of opium (commonly called laudanum) THAT might certainly intoxicate if a man could bear to take enough of it; but why?
'Is not it shocking to think,' continued she, after she had swallowed it, 'that in laudanum alone I find the means of supporting existence?'
Perhaps this wet cloth in the original, is what we now call laudanum; a potion that overspreads the faculties, as the wet cloth did the face of the royal patient; and the translator knew not how to render it.