It was poured out quickly, and then thirty drops of laudanum were carefully counted into it.
The effect of the laudanum had been intensified by the thoroughly exhausted condition of the body.
I hate this world with its war, and I bitterly regret I never managed to buy laudanum in time.
Drugs for example--how beneficent a little laudanum at times in a case like mine!
The bottle of laudanum on the table near him suggested that he had taken an overdose, and a post-mortem examination bore out this theory.
This, perhaps, was the reason why the jury found an open verdict, though all the other circumstances pointed towards his having taken too much laudanum by accident.
I had procured the laudanum and loaded the pistol with which I proposed to shoot myself immediately after it was swallowed so that there might be no mistake.
I perceived that the laudanum was taking effect upon all, and when I returned to the officers I found them all very much excited.
At an early period his bedroom was searched, but nothing was found but the laudanum bottle, and a little chloroform and camphor liniment which had been brought from another room.
But from first to last he persisted in declaring, in the most solemn manner, that he had taken nothing except some laudanum for toothache.
He went to the store to get some glasses to protect them, and he bought some laudanum to make him sleep that night, if he should be wakeful again.
There was laudanum enough in that bottle to kill him.
But it is vain to struggle against the decrees of fortune, and the laudanumproved insufficient to stop his breath.
Laudanum dropped in the eye will also prove very beneficial, allaying the itching and pain, at the same time stimulating the organs to renewed action.
If the animal seems to be losing strength, a small quantity of laudanum and ether may be administered.
So then she says, "You gave me laudanum so I could sleep.
What must forever sicken Denny to think of was that hour in the boathouse when Nancy might have yielded and taken the laudanum that Mrs. Pascoe had finally secured, before he could get to her.
She throws it from the window where it fills the air with laudanum smell.
If she is found, even, with laudanum it is suicide.
If spasms ensue after evacuation, laudanumin considerable doses it necessary.
You gave him a part of a glass of water with some laudanum in it.
To be sure I did, to calm down the pain; and that was what I call laudanum and Mr Briscoe here calls opium.
No, darling Kitty; but I must take thelaudanum away at once.
Kitty pointed to a shelf over her bed where a small bottle of laudanum stood.
The baby had been quite restless, so according to the custom, I gave her a little laudanum to make her sleep.
Laudanum and sweet spirit of nitre, of each 1/2 fl.
Dr Chapman also cites the case of a patient to whom a wineglass of laudanum had to be administered several times in 24 hours.
In cases accompanied by restlessness, a few drops of laudanum or tincture of henbane may be added.
From the flowers of bull's hoof or Dutchman's laudanum (Passiflora merucuja--Linn.
When there is much pain, after the stomach has been well cleared, a few drops of laudanum may be taken, or an opium plaster may be applied over the region of the stomach.
An injection consisting of thirty or forty drops of laudanum in a spoonful of gruel will be found to afford immediate relief.
For children only fifteen drops of laudanum should be used.
In some cases of tetanus, for example, upwards of four ounces of laudanum have been given daily for a week, without any marked effect.
It means that you had not been gone an hour when I found Ted with that little two-ounce phial you left half filled with laudanum on the lower pantry shelf yesterday.
Very likely I should not have taken laudanum from that bottle you threw away; in any case, I should have struggled hard not to.
Oh, Thurso, you've been taking laudanum again," she said.
He had not taken laudanum again, nor, as far as could be ascertained, had he tried to procure any.
I would throw all the laudanum bottles in the world into the Thames if I could prevent the stuff reaching him.
She made not half a dozen steps of it across the deck, and before ten seconds were over a large, half-empty bottle of laudanum was sinking forlornly into the abysmal depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thurso lay back in his big chair after Cochrane had gone, conscious that something else besides laudanum had begun to interest him a little.
You spoke oflaudanum as poisonous stuff just now," he said.
But after this not very brilliant attempt to get laudanum from the ship's doctor, Thurso made no further efforts in that direction, and now and then there were little rifts in those clouds and storms that were so dark and grey above him.
He was for ever making mistakes, however, much to his own sorrow, the darling man; and I had to watch him pretty closely, for more than once he has been on the point of giving mamma a glass of laudanum in mistake for a glass of port wine.
The narcotic effect would overpower the other, and laudanum would interfere with the usual effect of antimony.
Paterson did not, in my mind, indicate poisoning by opium orlaudanum at all.
I know that when he came to my house he always had a bottle of laudanum in his bag, but I don’t know if he used it.
The Morgans, with great difficulty and perseverance, did break him of the habit, at a time when his ordinary consumption of laudanum was, from two quarts a week, to a pint a day!
The expense is not great: laudanum and treacle, administered in the shape of some popular elixir, affords these innocents a brief taste of the sweets of existence, and keeping them quiet, prepares them for the silence of their impending grave.
