Ever since my recovery from the fever I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.
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Laudanum
//ˈlɔːdənəm//
Synonyms for "laudanum" (84 found)
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14 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лауданум noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Catalan
2 entries- làudan noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
- làudanum noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Czech
1 entries- laudanum noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Finnish
1 entries- laudanumi noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
French
1 entries- laudanum noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Galician
1 entries- láudano noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
German
1 entries- Laudanum noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Irish
1 entries- ládanam noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Italian
1 entries- laudano noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Latin
1 entries- laudanum noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Portuguese
1 entries- láudano noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Spanish
1 entries- láudano noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
Tagalog
1 entries- lawdano noun (the tincture of opium once widely used)
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Whatever else was wanting to a wise man's happiness, —of laudanum I would have given him as much as he wished, and in a golden cup.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Laudanum, a derivative of opium, was the name given to a secret remedy concocted by the occultist Paracelsus, in the sixteenth century.
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