How To Use paregoric In A Sentence
- Take of paregoric, liquorice and gum arabic, each an ounce, from fifty to one hundred drops of antimonial wine and two gills of hot water; mix them well together, and when cold, bottle, and cork it tight; take two tea-spoonsful at a time; if it should nauseate, give a smaller quantity. Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
- A delicious pampootie fool can be made quite cheaply as follows: 3 lb. of pampooties, 8 oz. of angelica paregoric, 1 imperial pint of sloe gin, 1 gill of ammoniated quinine, 9 oz. of rock salt. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914
- Oh for the good old days when it was acceptable to go to the druggist, whisper “paregoric” to him/her, and a few drops brought blessed silence! The Sound Of Crazy | Her Bad Mother
- In the supposedly drug-free past, children were put to bed with paregoric, old folks beatified themselves with Hadacol, and teetotal housewives contentedly glugged 80-proof women's trouble remedies. Michael Kaplan: Drugs: Losing the Longest War
- I once had an awful cold, and the old gentleman I worked for suggested equal parts honey, lemon, whiskey, and paregoric. Never thought I'd say I'm glad to be back at work but...
- He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same - among them, paregoric, laudanum, chamomile, and an otherwise unidentified bark tea.
- Calomel, which was used in conjunction with paregoric to treat diarrhea, later was found to be a deadly mercury poison that actually made the diarrhea worse.
- In the meantime, he had cast off his accursed plaything and leapt over the railings like a boxer over the paregoric ropes which would have garroted him had he not been both careful and proficient.
- You can still buy the stuff today, albeit paregoric or whatever the magical ingredient was -free. Archive 2010-02-01
- Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
