How To Use Opium In A Sentence
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His great-uncle started the business in the mid-19th century when he moved to Bradford from Turkey to trade in opium for the pharmaceutical trade, wheat, barley, fur and mohair.
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Paracelsus created the narcotic opium, which he called laudanum, for his patients.
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Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies.
Les Miserables
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From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
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He believed that British shipping was licensed and that the opium ships were vessels which had evaded licensing.
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Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
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Gold medals are the new opium of the people.
Times, Sunday Times
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For severe cases, the prescription nasal spray ipratropium (Atrovent) may help, though it can cause bothersome side effects including headache; nasal dryness, irritation or bleeding; and sore throat.
Q&A: What's causing my post-dinner runny nose?
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Oats, millet, opium poppies, and flax were also being cultivated by the end of the Neolithic period.
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Now rare earth elements with exotic names such as europium and tantalum hold the key to hybrid cars, wind turbines and crystal-clear TV displays - that is, if a looming supply shortage doesn't stop innovation in its tracks.
The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
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The presence of these foreign substances in the eye, in connection with the salt spray and irritating atmosphere, greatly aggravated the ophthalmia, and resolved it into a chronic affection, which ultimately resulted in entropium.
The Dog
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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He's going to opium dens where he's part of a gang as a hired assassin who carries a tommy gun in a violin case.
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Payment was commonly in cast-off clothes, food scraps, alcohol or opium dregs.
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Everything from fluorescent light bulbs to laptop and iPhone screens relies on small but critical amounts of europium to generate a pleasant red color and terbium to make green.
Testing Their Metals
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In 1853, Bayard Taylor, the most celebrated travel writer in antebellum America (and the subject of chapter 8), was able to visit several of China’s largest coastal cities because, after the Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) made such excursions possible by opening up additional ports to foreign intercourse.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
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If this does not work the second step is to continue these drugs and add a weak synthetic opium imitator such as codeine or oxycodone.
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After all, in some parts of the world opium is smoked on a regular basis.
Sound Politics: Health Effects Of Pot Get Short Shrift: Bummer, Man
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Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel?
THE IRATE NATION
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Opium, and other strong stupefactives, do coagulate the spirit, and deprive it of the motion.
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The uncle's wife is moved into the town house where she smokes opium on her bed every day.
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Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) is the source for the natural and semisynthetic narcotics.
Notes and Definitions
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-- A NEW York physician has related a case in which inhalation of very dry persulphate of iron, reduced to a palpable powder, entirely arrested bleeding from the lungs, after all the usual remedies, lead, opium, etc., had failed.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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The chief plants furnishing the drugs of commerce, and which enter largely into tropical agriculture, are the narcotic plants, especially tobacco, the poppy for opium, and the betel nut and leaf; as masticatories -- but there are very many others to which the attention of the cultivator may profitably be directed.
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
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Company ships were forbidden to carry opium, thus avoiding difficulties with the Canton authorities.
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Over the next half-day, opium will seep out through these holes in the form of a milky sap that can be scraped off the side of the pod.
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You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.
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Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave.
Flashman And The Dragon
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Yet by the end of the nineteenth century - the apogee of the Victorian Age - the moral justification for the empire and the scientific knowledge of the effects of opium use could no longer ensure that this drug trade would go unchallenged.
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I request that if he has brought any form of opium with him he will give it to me, and we enter into a stipulation that he will come to me for any opiate or other alleviative which he may desire.
The Opium Habit
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The opium poppy is also larger.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War in 1842, ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain, required the Chinese to pay $21 million indemnity, and opened the so-called treaty ports of Shanghai, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo to foreign trade.
The Last Empress
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Its anticholinergic ancestor, ipratropium or Atrovent was taken twice a day.
Spiriva and Stroke-FDA's warning may be too much (or too soon) information
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Well, he did take opium.
Times, Sunday Times
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From alcohol they progress to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
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The Portuguese imported both tobacco and opium, and supplied a cheap instrument for addicts, the pipe.
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Zabíbah is a preparation of hemp florets, opium and honey, much affected by the lower orders, whence the proverb: Temper thy sorrow with Zabibah.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In lock jaw, and in all convulsive conditions in which opium is prescribed in stupefactive doses.
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Heroin is synthesized from opium, which is made by treating morphine with acetic acid.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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It looked a bit'like an opium den.
The Sun
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Also, coffee plants are hardier than opium poppies.
Illegal Crop Is Swapped for Legal One in Mexico
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As the criminal had a quartan fever, Fallopius wished to investigate the effects of opium on the paroxysms.
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The camp would also have taught farming techniques to try to wean people off growing opium.
The Sun
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I am pumped full of drugs: methadone, morphine, opium, marijuana, the whole lot.
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These people know nothing more than how to smoke their dope, grow their opium, and buy more weapons.
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We decline the chief's offer of a toot on his opium pipe - I'm not sure if I need things to be any stranger than they already are - and head back to camp.
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It, like the opium , will hocus your nerves, blur your eyes and confuse your mind.
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The western flank of this high frontier is the Golden Triangle, legendary for its opium crop and warlord law.
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Easing the transition, the FDA said two other CFC-propelled products, one that uses a combination of ipratropium and albuterol and another that uses pirbuterol, may stay on the market until Dec. 31, 2013.
FOXNews.com
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Paregoric, added to some cough drops, originally referred to a camphorated opium compound, now reduced to a harmless flavouring.
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The ancient Egyptians cultivated opium poppies, however the use of opium was generally restricted to priests, magicians, and warriors, and was associated with religious cultism.
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its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
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To treat malaria, military physicians normally recommended venesection - draining 20 ounces of blood, about 10 percent of an adult's supply - sometimes supplementing that with doses of mercury or opium, and in one case applying freshly killed pigeons to the soles of patients 'feet.
Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War
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This manuscript reviews the history and pharmacognosy of opium, and describes the chemistry, pharmacology, and therapeutic uses of the major opium alkaloids.
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The sleepy Celestial seasons had gone flowering their way to paradise, and the opium-smuggler and her sycee silver lay safe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quicksand.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Despite looking fabulous in a deerstalker and maintaining a healthy interest in opium, I am not Sherlock Holmes.
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_ Elliptical incision for entropium; _b. _ wedge-shaped incision for ectropium.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry.
A Bit of Punctuation
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This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself.
The Opium Habit
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The camp would also have taught farming techniques to try to wean people off growing opium.
The Sun
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There was usually a fixed rate of exchange between the two coinages, though this was upset when opium poured in and silver flowed out, causing a scarcity of the latter.
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The consumption of opium, the one dissipation of the Chinese till now unadded to the three or four of the Caucasian, is said to be extending.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons.
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The alkaloid was first synthesized by Pictet and Gams in 1909, and as the amount of papaverine obtained from opium is small, the synthetic route remains the source of this compound up to the present day.
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Growing opium is legal, btw, at least as far as federal law goes (and as far as growing it ....) ....
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drawing Lines in the Commerce Clause Debate on Health Care Reform
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“In the central provinces of China, especially in Hubei and Hunan, nearly every government organization has come to depend on opium revenue for maintenance,” said one authority, citing figures from a particular locality in which one picul approximately 140 pounds of opium cost $400.
The Last Empress
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Although he replied that he did not even know what opium looked like, his bags were emptied and searched.
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The wildlife zoologist Richard Harris says the poaching was as vital to the local economy as opium cultivation in Afghanistan or coca growing in Colombia.27 Just as in those cases, the blame for the illegal trade ultimately rested with rich Western consumers who buy expensive shahtoosh shawls.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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The isolation of morphine from opium takes advantage of the amphoteric nature of the alkaloid, since morphine is a phenolic amine.
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Such a convulsion is the struggle of gradual suffocation, as in drowning; and, in the original Opium Confessions, I mentioned a case of that nature communicated to me by a lady from her own childish experience.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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Early indications suggest Afghanistan could see a further increase in opium production in 2007, the report said.
Archive 2007-06-01
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He also identified certain plants with pharmacological action such as mandragora or nightshade, opium and henbane and gave various recipes for inducing both anesthesia and analgesia before surgery.
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In the Mangrove creeks we found Telescopium, Pleurotoma; and heaps of oyster-shells, for the first time on our journey.
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
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Take of lard 7-1/2 drms., creosote 10 drops, solution of subacetate of lead 10 drops, watery extract of opium 1 grain; mix.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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Home grown herbs would have included coriander, dill, thyme, opium poppy and summer savoury.
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Assistants held the patient securely and some sedation such as mandrake root or solution of opium was given, a concoction which probably stiffened the surgeon's resolve rather than mollified the patient.
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In the opium from eight divisions of the agency, he found the quantity of morphia to range from 1¾ grains to 3½ grains per cent., and the amount of the narcotine to vary from ¾ grain to 3½ grains per cent., the consistence of the various specimens being between 75 and 79 per cent.
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
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For a lay person, inhaled medicines are often linked to smoking or opium inhalation and is, therefore, perceived as addictive.
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The opium peptide should be relative with the onset of pruritus and Vidal disease.
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Traditionally, low-grade heroin is refined from Afghan opium.
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He was this actor who went out and partied all night, went to bed with three women at once and he hung out in opium dens, and places like that.
Director Joe Johnston Interview THE WOLFMAN; Says the DVD/Blu-ray Will Have 17 Minutes of Extra Footage – Collider.com
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Regarding analgesics, he was remarkably current: ‘The most powerful of the stupefacients is opium.’
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In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a "drug-free world" and to "eliminating or significantly reducing" the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
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Opium and laudanum are both stimulating and stupefactive.
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From the Opium War in 1840, China suffered the colonialist aggression for almost 110 years.
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Misawa also debunked the view that substitute crops need to be more profitable than illegal opium.
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The analysis also looked at ipratropium, an older medication also marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim under the brand name Atrovent.
Drug to Treat Lung Disease Shows Risks
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We all know that Marx said that religion was the "opium of the people", but it could be argued that worshiping Jesus is less harmful to poor people than taking meths, heroin or crack.
Huckabee Mounts Counterattack Against Romney Over Paroled Rapist Story
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The true gum opium, and laudanum, which is its tincture, are derived from Eastern
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Opiates - drugs like codeine and morphine that contain or are derived from opium - are considered low-grade narcotics.
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The alkaloids in poppy include morphine, narcotine and codeine - the reasons why opium is used most frequently as a sedative.
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The country is devolving into a "narco state" with about 60 per cent of its income derived from opium.
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He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel.
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The milky fluid is scraped off the pods and hardens into a brown gum that is raw opium.
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This wasn't the boy who seemed to be high on opium every time I met him.
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And one of the things she did to help herself during this period was to take laudanum, which is a kind of opium derivative.
John Stuart Mill: A Biography
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Opium is the brown, gummy exudate of the incised, unripe seedpod of the opium poppy.
Notes and Definitions
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Anti-cholinergic drugs, such as ipratropium bromide dilate airways.
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He had evidently lived in varied cities and very motley societies, for some of his cheerfullest stories were about gambling hells and opium dens, Australian bushrangers or
The Complete Father Brown
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The historic popularity of opium, and of late of the coal-tar products (phenacetine and acetanilide), in the beginning of an acute illness, is largely based on the power which they possess of dulling pain, relieving disturbances of the blood-balance, and soothing bodily and mental excitement.
Preventable Diseases
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After the Opium War of 1840, China was gradually reduced to a semicolonial and semi - feudal society.
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The use of opium was not criminalized until fairly recently.
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Fowler smokes opium as casually as one might toke on a cigarette.
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A precious opium-eating den, with a boudoir for hire and an elegant powder room, this hangout is lavish and otherworldly.
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Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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The drug barons guarantee opium prices, taking away uncertainty involved in growing wheat.
The Sun
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Aurora felt the opium haze enfold her -- lifting, freeing, numbing.
PAINT THE WIND
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The area is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade.
The Sun
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The transition from De Quincey's childhood to his opium-experiences is as natural, therefore, as from strophe to antistrophe in choral antiphonies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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The government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines.
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To harvest opium from a poppy, a farmer waits until the last petals of the flower have fallen off and then lances the seed pod, taking care not to cut too deep.
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Following the Opium War, China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and foreign powers stepped up their aggression against China," he added.
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Morphine, for example, is prepared by allowing opium to putrefy; and the process for preparing leucin, a substance which contains 10.72 of nitrogen, is to bring cheese into putrefaction.
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
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To be sure I did, to calm down the pain; and that was what I call laudanum and Mr Briscoe here calls opium.
Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
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The lords spend money freely, and the Old Master and the Old Mistress add on to the expenses with concubines and opium.
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It would take raw opium out of the supply chain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heavily armed clippers, any one of which could have dealt with a whole fleet of Chinese war junks, were spreading opium up the entire Chinese coast.
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Deer also avoid plants that people consider medicinal and poisonous: foxgloves (the plant source of the cardiac drug digitalin), poppies (the plant source of opium), daffodils, and lily-of-the-valley.
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A member of the borage family, common heliotrope is one of about 250 Heliotropium species, but it is the only one widely grown in gardens.
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My memory does not serve me so as to enable me to state, whether the Acdazeer's visit to Java was before or after the promulgation of the law prohibiting ships with opium and warlike stores entering any of the ports of Netherlands India; but I think it was _before_ that regulation was made public.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
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Iran accounts for the largest quantity of heroin, opium and morphine seizures worldwide each year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children of habitual opium-eaters or narcotists inherit an unmistakable taint.
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The chemical examination of different soils in connection with their opium-producing powers, presents a field for profitable and interesting inquiry; nor is the least important part of the investigation that which has reference to variations in the proportions of the alkaloids (especially the morphia and narcotine), which occur in opium produced in various localities.
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
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If people choose to ingest opium, heroin, cocaine, crack, marijuana, or any of the dozens of uppers, downers, and hallucinogens in common use, let them.
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Gul said he was singled out in the reports because of American fears that he will expose U.S. "cavities" -- corruption, poor planning and complicity in the opium trade -- in the Afghan conflict.
Document leak part of U.S. plot, says Pakistani ex-general with ties to Taliban
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Jenkins, is eloquent exceedingly upon the _narcotine_ of fashionable life: declares that its soothing influences were unequalled by vapour of purest mundungus, or acetate of morphia, or even pill of opium, blended intimately with glass of _eau-de-vie_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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Tree species include Acacia raddiana, Balanites aegyptiaca, Maerua crassifolia and Capparis decidua; herbaceous species are Panicum turgidum, Cassia italica, Pergularia tomentosa and Heliotropium bacciferum.
Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
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We learn also that he smokes opium and hangs out in disreputable neighborhoods where he presumably takes drugs and employs the services of prostitutes.
Archive 2007-02-01
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This year, Afghan poppies yielded 56 kg of opium per hectare, which is a 15 percent increase over 2008 and five times more than what opium farmers yield in the Golden Triangle of South-east Asia.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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For undergraduate chemistry it was required that one could recite the whole thing from memory, to know that iridium lies at the foot of cobalt, that europium is sandwiched between samarium and gadolinium.
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We were monitoring everybody, from the opium farmer in the Bekaa to the end-customer in Detroit or Los Angeles.
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The insides of energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs are coated with tiny amounts of two such elements, terbium and europium.
U.S. urged to safeguard supply of 'energy-critical elements'
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Opium and other narcotic addictions were rampant among the upper classes.
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After all, Coleridge had not drunk ayahuasca, he had taken tincture of opium.
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Picasso had a brief flirtation with opium and hashish, during the Rose and Blue periods, but soon abandoned them.
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Aurora felt the opium haze enfold her -- lifting, freeing, numbing.
PAINT THE WIND
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M. M.gendie has often injected into the veins of an hydrophobous dog as much as five grains of opium without producing any effect; while a single grain given to the healthy dog would suffice to send him almost to sleep.
The Dog
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I have pointed out the existence in opium of a convulsive poison congeneric with brucia.
The Opium Habit
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Through rare elements like black hemlock extract and the smell of raw opium, with tuberose absolute, tonka bean, treemoss and animalistic notes like synthetic castoreum and cistus ladanum you get the lingering impression of warm and radiant flesh.
Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion
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The eye, as well as the lids, became inflamed; the latter, being puffed up and contracted on their edges, were necessarily drawn inwards from the tension of the parts, and double entropium was thus produced.
The Dog
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In 1924 Congress effectively outlawed heroin, which, like smoking opium, was associated with vice and crime.
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In any case, the vast bulk of opium is grown in three areas – Wardak, Kandahar and Helmand, where the local control elements, whether Taliban or not, derive power from their drug income.
Wonk Room » Holbrooke Emphasizes Agricultural Development In Afghanistan
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But we have to remember that in the nineteenth century opium was a painkiller.
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Vice thrived in its most sordid and elegant forms, from squalid opium dens and off-the-street brothels
to the decorum and plush luxuriance of the so-called French restaurants.
Frank Norris
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In the big house, there are also special rooms for smoking opium, playing mahjong and even fishing.
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The opium poppy is also larger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.
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Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
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The study was focused on matrix effects, spectrum interference and background of the spectral lines of other rare earth elements in europium oxide matrix, and the optimum condition was selected.
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They inveighed against slavery, concubinage , foot binding, arranged marriage, cruel punishments, and the use of opium.
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Coffee, tea, and cocoa are all staples of the Fair Trade movement, and like opium, they're drugs - the strongest drugs the grocer can sell without having to check for documentation of your age.
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Ochres and ochrey earths; oil-cloths of every description, of whatever material composed; oils of every description, animal, vegetable and mineral, not otherwise provided for; olives; opium; orange and lemon peel; osier or willow, prepared for basket-makers 'use.
Tariff of the Confederate States of America : approved by Congress, May 21, 1861 : to be of force from and after August 31, 1861,
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But I am posturing here, I suppose, when all I should be saying is that plot is not the opium of the artless masses…
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_ -- Opium itself cannot be directly detected, but we test for morphine and meconic acid.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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some of these drugs have been derived from opium and others have been produced synthetically
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In the Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley, farmers grew hashish and opium as staple export crops.
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It is in order to write that so many poets have tried to live the reveries of opium.
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Barnes has described the appropriate pharmacology of tiotropium for the treatment of COPD.
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_subsultus_ -- that involuntary twitching and cramp in the muscles of the limbs and abdomen which often characterizes this form of the opium malady, by degrees gets lulled as under a charm, and it may not even be necessary to repeat the dose in two and a half hours to remove it so entirely that the patient gets ten or fifteen minutes of refreshing sleep.
The Opium Habit
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He had evidently lived in varied cities and very motley societies, for some of his cheerfullest stories were about gambling hells and opium dens, Australian bushrangers or Italian brigands.
The Father Brown Omnibus
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A narcotic drug that contains opium, its derivatives, or any of several semisynthetic or synthetic drugs with opium-like activity.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
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The gangster gabbed about bribing a congressman and his opium smuggling business, which along with his other revelations could have put him back in prison.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Is there enough chromium, cobalt, helium, and manganese - not to mention erbium, europium, and gadolinium - on the planet to last indefinitely?
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Rare-earth phosphors such as europium and yttrium are in demand to tweak the color of compact fluorescent light bulbs and LED displays.
Malaysia Stalls New Project
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For example, the mare basalts were depleted in aluminum and europium, whereas the anorthosites were loaded with aluminum and enriched in europium.
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That man gave her a dose of opium.
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With minimal discretion, sly-looking men lounge amidst bricks of hash and balls of opium.
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It is the opium of the people.
Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
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In an age where wars for oil and opium are waged under the disguise of altruism and democracy, works by those like Petty serve as prods to the sane.
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Love is the emotional opium of the mind, and the bread and butter of the heart and soul, people can hardly live without love. Dr T.P.Chia
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They are connected with the opium economy and impose forced labour on the communities.
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In the 10th century, in Andalusia, Al-Zahrawi devised the forceps, speculum and bonesaw, pioneered inhalant anaesthetics in the form of sponges soaked with cannabis and opium, and even described the first syringe.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review
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Magnets made with neodymium power cellphones and wind turbines, cerium is used to polish flat-screen monitors, and europium puts the red in cockpit displays and televisions.
Highfliers Find Lower Orbit
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Medicinal extracts and preparations of all kinds, including proprietary or patent medicines, but exclusive of quinine or preparations of quinine, opium, gange, and bhang.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
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Behrend 9.321 observed an opium exanthem, which was attended by intolerable itching, after the exhibition of a quarter of a grain.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Indeed, the last mentioned of these two drugs obtains over the mind a power which may be compared to that of opium, and is, moreover, liable to occasion the disease known as chloralism, by which the system ultimately becomes a complete wreck.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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In 1804, while at Oxford, he had begun to take opium, and from 1812 he became an addict.
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They gave bangles for African slaves, opium for the silver of China and beads for the gold of the Incas and Mayas of South America.
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Do the words " opium of the masses " carry any resonance for you?
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These suggestions were based on evidence that showed that opium was addictive.
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Tiotropium is in a class of drugs called anticholinergic bronchodilators, which prevent the airway spasms that can make breathing difficult.
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It was difficult to believe that his subjection to opium could much longer resist the stings of his own conscience, and the solicitations of his friends, as well as the pecuniary destitution to which his _opium habits_ had reduced him.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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It may be that the last new anodyne, which is warranted to have all the virtues and none of the ill-effects of opium, had also come to the end of _its_ tether.
Somehow Good
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The area is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade.
The Sun
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They were basically protocols for taking hashish, mescaline and opium.
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During the nineteenth century, laudanum, made from a tincture of opium, was a popular sleeping aid, but it was known to be fatal in large doses.
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During the mid-19th century, opium and opium related-drugs were very widely available and commonly used, as well as a dangerous drug based on mercury called calomel.
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To grow the opium that this heroin with came from, a harmer probably earned about $300.
CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2007
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Medications used in this approach include paregoric, tincture of opium, phenobarbital, benzodiazepines, and chlorpromazine.
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According to the Christian Science Monitor, this year also produced a bumper opium crop in addition to a good wheat harvest.
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It would seem more appropriate to pull out of Afghanistan and make it abundantly clear that the next time an attack against the US is traceable to folks who were trained or in anyway supported by folks in Afghanistan, we will obliterate Afghanistan and defoliate its opium poppies.
War Czar for Bush to Keep His Job - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The Southern ones, the so-called ionic clays from which the higher atomic numbered rare earths, europium, dysprosium, and terbium are produced, can run so that they have a 30% gross margin.
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She took laudanum for this, as was the fashion, a habit that brought her to the attention of a fellow poet, the opium addict Coleridge.
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The refinement of raw opium yields other drugs, such as morphine.
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Police discovered ten bottles of barbiturate and amphetamine capsules plus some tincture of Opium in front of the offices in a plastic carrier bag.
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‘Optimism,’ he writes, paraphrasing Marx in jest, ‘is the Opium of the people!’
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Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades.
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One reads, "$eason In Hell", a nod to poet Arthur Rimbaud and his love of escape and opium.
Gordy Grundy: The Next Cable Series Pitch: Freeman and Lowe
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Examples of anticholinergic drugs include atropine and ipratropium (Atrovent).
