Sentences with word «laudanum»
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.
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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.
A character uses laudanum on several occasions to relieve pain.
We must treat the pain, and the best way to do that is to prescribe Wilshere with laudanum.
Narcotic drugs, such as laudanum, could be added to the feeder to «soothe» the baby.
The history of addiction involving laudanum and other opioid painkillers — America's first epidemic of opioid addiction occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century — may have worried many physicians considering this new crop of drugs.
Price blames everything he sees on laudanum withdrawal, and to remember his dead wife, he has a bullet with «together forever» written on it.
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Some types of lettuce, such as iceberg lettuce, contain laudanum which can be harmful when consumed in large quantities.
She is an agoraphobic who has learned to handle her panic attacks through the use of laudanum, from which she is now «clean».
What they don't count on is that Price is a laudanum addict haunted by visions of his late wife, who killed herself (yes) with a gunshot.
Addicted to laudanum, the good doctor is haunted by demons of his own, and soon discovers there's more than a well - paying job waiting for him at Winchester manor.
But then Price, who nurses a laudanum addiction and a traumatic gun - related backstory of his own, begins to see things, too.
This despite a solid, hardworking cast and a starring role by the Winchester House itself — seen in lingering drone shots from the air and from location footage.Spring 1906: In San Francisco, the decadent, laudanum - fancying Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is recruited to assess the sanity of the reclusive heiress Sarah Winchester (Mirren), the 51 - percent owner of the Winchester rifle company.»
The story revolves around Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke), a psychiatrist in San Francisco with a painful past and a present addiction to laudanum.
As he stocks up on medicines and laudanum to feed his own opium addiction, Sumner receives an ominous warning: The captain of the Volunteer, Arthur Brownlee, has a bad track record, a beggar tells Sumner.
Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild.