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I spare all technical summary of the case, sufficient to say that this was one of the rare instances in which the mind, totally unhinged, is restored to its balance by sixty drops of laudanum taken fasting, with a squeeze of lemon, after violent exercise on an empty stomach.
But if no medical assistance be at hand, the application of volatile liniments to the part affected, a clyster with a little laudanum in it, or the warm bath, may be tried with advantage.
What's he beside your own flesh and blood, I say again." "Why does my own flesh and blood do such wicked tricks to an Irish soldier? Why does it give poison to an Irish soldier?" "Poison, Jen? You needn't speak so ghost-like. It was only a dose of laudanum; not enough to kill him. Ask Pierre."
I now took only one thousand drops of laudanum per day and what was that? A latter spring had come to close up the season of youth. My brain performed its functions as healthily as ever before. I read Kant again, and again I understood him, or fancied that I did. Again my feelings of pleasure expanded themselves to all around me.
Afraid that he would find nothing he wanted down there, he determined to stuff his portmanteau full; he crammed into the corners sugar, packets of chocolate, that he might try to deceive if needful the anguish of a fasting stomach, took towels thinking there would be few at La Trappe, prepared a stock of tobacco and matches; then besides books, paper, pencils, ink, packets of antipyrine, a phial of laudanum, which he wrapped in handkerchiefs and wedged into his slippers.
"I have accepted my new life," she thought. "How do I know what that life may have in store for me?" She turned from the window and went back to the table. "I may be forced to drink it yet," she said, and put the laudanum into her dressing-case. Her mind was not at ease when she had done this: there seemed to be some indefinable ingratitude in the act.
The negro grinned with delight, and going into the tent brought out a tin mug. "Dat's all right, Sam; but you hab no brought de bottle of laudabun. You just fetch dat, and I gib you de spirit." The negro went in again, and in two minutes returned with a small bottle of laudanum. "Dat's a fair exchange," Tony said, taking it, and handing to the man his mug half full of spirit.
One wonders that more of them did not imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for his coarse common sense, took vain and sensual to drinking the laudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a priceless boon to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom.
Diarrhea is suppressed with laudanum and other opiates, which paralyze the peristaltic action of the bowels and, if repeated, soon produce chronic constipation.
It was composed posed of laudanum, nitre, and other savoury drugs, which procured me sleep till now: have no headache; must eat breakfast, and away to court as fast as possible. Saturday Evening. Every thing almost stands still. I begin to despair of getting away. I am sure the whole of next week will not finish our business at the present rate.
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