paregoric

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Then she went downstairs for cotton-wool and paregoric, and she ministered to Comfort's aching tooth; but no cotton-wool or paregoric was there for Comfort's aching heart She sobbed so bitterly that her mother looked alarmed.

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  1. noun A camphorated tincture of opium, taken internally for the relief of diarrhea and intestinal pain.

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  • You don't want to have to take paregoric, do you No-o-o, but I want e take Mamma said you couldn't have any. —  The Right Knock A Story
  • An array of doctor's tinctures, gargles, and tonics, stood on one side, while on the other were a number of home-made concoctions in disused wine-bottles, such as a paregoric cough-mixture, and a cooling draught to be taken the first thing in the morning, which last pretended to be lemonade, but in reality contained a number of medicinal powders. —  About Peggy Saville
  • This will naturally turn the bowel movements dark Under no circumstances should any other medicines be given without the physician's knowledge, as it is at such times as this that many "would-be friends" advise laudanum, paregoric, and other opiates. —  The Mother and Her Child
  • I prefer Wagner to squills, and compared to the delights of Mozart, Hayden and Offenbach those of paregoric are nit Still rambling, eh?" —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
  • The camphorated tincture of opium (paregoric) is required in doses of from two to twenty drops, depending upon the age of the child and the severity of the case, if there is much pain, but great caution should be exercised in administering the preparations of opium to children. —  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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  1. Late Latin parēgoricus, soothing, from Greek parēgorikos, from parēgorein, to talk over, soothe, from parēgoros, consoling : para-, beside; see para-1 + agorā, agora; see agora1.

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  1. = French parégorique =Spanish paregόrico =Portuguese Italian paregorico, from Late Latin paregoricus, from Greek παρηγορικός, soothing, from , παρήγορος, consoling, from παρά, beside, + ἀγορεύειν, speak in an assembly, from ἀγορά, assembly: see agora.
 

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