Nowadays, I do not see paregoric mentioned on any schedules of drugs. Many pharmacists have never heard of it, although it ...

Although reasonably safe and effective when used exactly as directed, this derivative of opium can be inadvertently taken in ...

Could you kindly tell me about the current status of paregoric? Has it been banned by the Food and Drug Administration? Is it ...

Could you kindly tell me about the current status of paregoric? Has it been banned by the Food and Drug Administration? Is it available anywhere in the United States? I remember using this product ...

Other historical opium products include the alcoholic tincture of opium (”laudanum”), which is much more potent and dangerous ...

Now his time at the Tory helm is over, Rishi Sunak has turned his attention to a new venture: promoting the Coast to Coast ...

On the left in front of the Tree of Life, the figure of Love holds Dante's flaming heart; with closed eyes, Beatrice contemplates the Earthly Paradise. The red bird of death carrying an opium poppy ...

There’s a split-level garden to the rear of the house and if you fancy more outdoor space, residents enjoy direct access to ...

Scanty ground for a biography, one might think. Yet De Quincey’s opium habit was a story that absorbed many readers at the time. Taken as a ‘blue pill’ or in alcohol as laudanum, opium was an ...

The remarkable courtroom sketch was owned by the chief juror at the trial, Charles Thomson Combe, who died in 1904. It was used in The Illustrated Times, and shows the small figure of Madeleine ...

His opium addiction (he was using as much as two quarts of laudanum a week) now began to take over his life: he separated from his wife Sara in 1808, quarrelled with Wordsworth in 1810, lost part of ...

IT WAS one of the most famous trials in Scottish legal history, and Victorian society was shaken to its core. Socialite ...