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Paregoric   Listen
adjective
Paregoric  adj.  Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Paregoric" Quotes from Famous Books



... is paregoric to be administered wholesale for colic. It contains an opiate, and should not be given without definite orders from a physician. And so as a parting word on "Why Babies Cry," we ask each mother to run over the following summary of the chapter, ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... the wood. This bottled drug-store whiskey is poison. I'd just as lief take paregoric. I drew this from my own 'bar'l' this morning. Don't imagine I'm a heavy consumer. A 'bar'l' lasts me a long time. I divide it around among my friends. Remind me to give you some to take home. Try one of those cigars; John Ware keeps ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson



Words linked to "Paregoric" :   camphorated tincture of opium, medicament, medication, medicinal drug



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