morphia

How To Use morphia In A Sentence

• A chief chemical feature, which distinguishes Bengal opium from that of Turkey and Egypt, is the large proportion which the narcotine in the former bears to the morphia, and this proportion is constant in all seasons. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• She drew a dose of morphia into a syringe.
• The doctor drew a dose of morphia into the syringe.
• Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
• The dying were given water or brandy and had their pain eased by morphia.
• From the "hypodermic" regulars, men and women, laying down their syringes to be filled with the soul-stealing morphia solution -- faded men and trembling women, down to the shattered wretch, with his pitiful twenty-five cents for a bit of "dope," no one with money was turned away. The Midnight Passenger : a novel
• About six months after the full position had been given, I saw him in a severe chill [evidently a withdrawal symptom caused by Halsted's seeking to give up morphine once again] and this was the first intimation I had that he was still taking morphia. Eminent Addicts « Isegoria
• The rest of the errands were much like others he had run in the past, except for one small item; among the other items Cameron wanted from the apothecary was a remarkable quantity of laudanum, and for the first time since Paul had known him, a small amount of morphia. Red dust
• Paul and Annie give her morphia to stop her pain.
• The fashionable devotee, in order to counteract this, either stimulates the system with alcohol, or exorcises the "fidgets" by the use of sedatives, such as chloral or morphia. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire