The medication had a paregoric effect on the painful wound. From LearnThat.org.
Oh for the good old days when it was acceptable to go to the druggist, whisper "paregoric" to him/her, and a few drops brought blessed silence!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sound Of Crazy] Reference
I didn't know one could even get paregoric any more. From Wordnik.com. [Never thought I'd say I'm glad to be back at work but...] Reference
The most successful remedies are ipecac and paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
She was addicted to paregoric and he was an alcoholic. From Wordnik.com. [Our Worst Neighbors Ever] Reference
And neither is paregoric to be administered wholesale for colic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
No person can be too careful in the use of laudanum, paregoric, and morphine. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
I seemed indistinctly to remember that when I was a child paregoric did the business. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Throughout the East, opium is generally smoked; but in Western countries laudanum and paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
You can still buy the stuff today, albeit paregoric or whatever the magical ingredient was -free. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
The paregoric period of life is full of spoons and midnight squalls, but what is home without a baby?. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
Two teaspoonfuls of spirits of nitre, one teaspoonful paregoric, one wineglassful of camphor water. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
After a while my husband realized he always took her to a different drugstore and that she always bought paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [Our Worst Neighbors Ever] Reference
I once had an awful cold, and the old gentleman I worked for suggested equal parts honey, lemon, whiskey, and paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [Never thought I'd say I'm glad to be back at work but...] Reference
Krypton goes back in among the shelves, and watches the lighted room through a bottle of paregoric till the opera's over. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
A baby having its lips rubbed with paregoric would have cried out, to say nothing of its cries after being placed in a sack. From Wordnik.com. [The Lindbergh Case: An Exchange] Reference
I hate a little too much fish last night, so I had my paregoric here today, but I ` ve saved drinking it until you actually drink it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008] Reference
It had a sweetish reek of paregoric and foul linen; the windows seemed to be tight shut, and the air was almost suffocating at first. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
She has mixed paregoric and treacle with the water!. From Wordnik.com. [About Peggy Saville] Reference
It smells as if someone had been drinking quarts of paregoric!. From Wordnik.com. [About Peggy Saville] Reference
It macerates its opium and percolates its own laudanum and paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Million] Reference
There's our line from the paregoric bottle right along to the snuff box. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
This feels cool and pleasant, and a few drops of paregoric will soon put the little sufferer to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The American Frugal Housewife] Reference
A tea-spoonful of paregoric occasionally repeated during the day will be found a most efficient soothing remedy. From Wordnik.com. [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference
I consider that, more than to anything else, I owe the success of our great undertaking to arnica and paregoric. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06] Reference
Some people like paregoric; the Honourable Hilary took his without undue squirming, with no visible effects to Austen. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
When we hear that another naughty but nice looking girl has been filling her skin full of paregoric and is standing off. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882] Reference
Also, the baby was still whimpering in a drowsy monotone, as the paregoric sought to renew its sway on the racket awakened brain. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
A few drops of paregoric, administered by Mrs. Schwartz as the child awoke for an instant on the way to the gate, insured sound slumber. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
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