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Paregoric   Listen
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Paregoric  n.  (Med.) A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; called also paregoric elexir.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Paregoric" Quotes from Famous Books



... alive and some paregoric lollypops!" cried Nurse Jane, as she looked at the three. "You ducks are all covered with red spots, too! You all ...
— Uncle Wiggily in the Woods • Howard R. Garis

... the bowels have been moved we should commence the exhibition of small doses of tartar emetic with squills and opium thrice a day. If the cough is very troublesome, give this mixture: Tincture of squills, 5 drops to 30; paregoric, 10 drops to 60; tartar emetic, one-sixteenth of a grain to 1 grain; syrup and water a ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... are drugs that relieve pain, often induce sleep, and refer to opium, opium derivatives, and synthetic substitutes. Natural narcotics include opium (paregoric, parepectolin), morphine (MS-Contin, Roxanol), codeine (Tylenol w/codeine, Empirin w/codeine, Robitussan A-C), and thebaine. Semisynthetic narcotics include heroin (horse, smack), and hydromorphone (Dilaudid). Synthetic narcotics include meperidine ...
— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency



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