anodynes

• Wiggins's anodynes were just the ticket for glossing over difficult moments. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• At first we should administer a light physic and follow this up with sedatives and anodynes, as directed for contused wounds. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• This is also true of the mind--in which the unhappy proddings of conscience had better not be cured by anodynes or by evasion unless we are prepared to go deeply enough to make them disappear spontaneously. —  The Untroubled Mind
• Sedatives and anodynes are also essential to modify the circulatory forces, and to relieve pain. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• Infants are very susceptible to the effects of anodynes, even out of all relative proportion to other kinds of medicines. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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