Laudanum is a type of medicine that was used in the past to relieve pain or help people sleep. It is made from opium, which comes from a certain kind of poppy plant. Full definition
«Kubla Khan» supposedly dictated itself verbatim to Samuel Coleridge while he was passed out on laudanum at home and would have been indefinitely longer if someone hadn't banged on his door and broken his trance. (discovermagazine.com)
After Herne had pried her sliced hands off the bracing wire, he wrapped one of them with her handkerchief and the other with her flying scarf, then drove her to Dr. Cunningham, who stitched ten loops in her right and twelve in her left, and gave her a small bottle of laudanum for the pain. (bookbrowse.com)
A character uses laudanum on several occasions to relieve pain. (parentpreviews.com)