How To Use Paregoric In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can still buy the stuff today, albeit paregoric or whatever the magical ingredient was -free.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
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I didn't know one could even get paregoric any more.
Never thought I'd say I'm glad to be back at work but...
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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.
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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
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Opium tincture and paregoric are similar products that are both extracts of opium and are both primarily employed as antidiarrheal agents.
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Medications used in this approach include paregoric, tincture of opium, phenobarbital, benzodiazepines, and chlorpromazine.
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hot drops," and ruled paper to write letters on, and a little Bible, and a phial with hiera picra, and another with paregoric, and another with "camphire" for sprains and bruises.
The Guardian Angel
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Nonetheless, standard narcotic remedies like paregoric remained readily available into the early 20th century, and Benzedrine inhalers were marketed without prescription until the early 1950s.
Boing Boing
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Do not use teething lotions, powders, whiskey, or paregoric (because it has opium in it).
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hot drops," and ruled paper to write letters on, and a little Bible, and a phial with hiera picra, and another with paregoric, and another with "camphire" for sprains and bruises.
The Guardian Angel
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a phial with hiera picra, and another with paregoric, and another with
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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-- Take three cents 'worth of liquorice, three of rock candy, three of gum arabic, and put them into a quart of water; simmer them till thoroughly dissolved, then add three cents' worth paregoric, and a like quantity of antimonial wine.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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Paregoric, added to some cough drops, originally referred to a camphorated opium compound, now reduced to a harmless flavouring.
