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Paregoric, or camphor
Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. It is a terpenoid with the chemical formula carbon10hydrogen16oxygen....
ated tincture
Tincture

In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract or solution of a non-Volatility substance; . To qualify as a tincture, the alcoholic extract is to have an ethanol percentage of at least 40-60% ....
 of opium
Opium

Opium is a narcotic formed from the latex released by lacerating the immature seed pods of Opium poppy . It contains up to 12% morphine, an opiate alkaloid, which is most frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade....
, also known as tinctura opii camphorata, is a medication
Medication

A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as medicine or medicament, can be loosely defined as any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease....
 known for its antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic
Analgesic

An analgesic is any member of the diverse group of Medication used to relieve pain . The word analgesic derives from Greek an- and algos ....
 properties. It was a household remedy in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it was widely used to calm fretful children. In the 20th century its use declined as governments regulated it. (In the United States, paregoric can still be found in the pharmacopeia
United States Pharmacopeia

The is an official public standards?setting authority for all Prescription drug and Over-the-counter drug medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States....
, but it is a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act
Controlled Substances Act

The Controlled Substances Act was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970....
.)

The principal active ingredient is powdered opium
Opium

Opium is a narcotic formed from the latex released by lacerating the immature seed pods of Opium poppy . It contains up to 12% morphine, an opiate alkaloid, which is most frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade....
 (containing the equivalent of 0.4 mg/mL of morphine
Morphine

Morphine is a highly potent opiate analgesic Medication, is the principal active agent in opium, and is considered to be the prototypical opioid....
).






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Paregoric, or camphor
Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. It is a terpenoid with the chemical formula carbon10hydrogen16oxygen....
ated tincture
Tincture

In medicine, a tincture is an alcoholic extract or solution of a non-Volatility substance; . To qualify as a tincture, the alcoholic extract is to have an ethanol percentage of at least 40-60% ....
 of opium
Opium

Opium is a narcotic formed from the latex released by lacerating the immature seed pods of Opium poppy . It contains up to 12% morphine, an opiate alkaloid, which is most frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade....
, also known as tinctura opii camphorata, is a medication
Medication

A pharmaceutical drug, also referred to as medicine or medicament, can be loosely defined as any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease....
 known for its antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic
Analgesic

An analgesic is any member of the diverse group of Medication used to relieve pain . The word analgesic derives from Greek an- and algos ....
 properties. It was a household remedy in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it was widely used to calm fretful children. In the 20th century its use declined as governments regulated it. (In the United States, paregoric can still be found in the pharmacopeia
United States Pharmacopeia

The is an official public standards?setting authority for all Prescription drug and Over-the-counter drug medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States....
, but it is a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act
Controlled Substances Act

The Controlled Substances Act was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970....
.)

The principal active ingredient is powdered opium
Opium

Opium is a narcotic formed from the latex released by lacerating the immature seed pods of Opium poppy . It contains up to 12% morphine, an opiate alkaloid, which is most frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade....
 (containing the equivalent of 0.4 mg/mL of morphine
Morphine

Morphine is a highly potent opiate analgesic Medication, is the principal active agent in opium, and is considered to be the prototypical opioid....
). Other ingredients are benzoic acid
Benzoic acid

Benzoic acid, C7H6O2 , is a colorless crystalline solid and the simplest aromatic carboxylic acid. The name derived from gum benzoin, which was for a long time the only source for benzoic acid....
, camphor
Camphor

Camphor is a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. It is a terpenoid with the chemical formula carbon10hydrogen16oxygen....
, glycerin, anise oil and purified water
Purified water

Purified water is water from any source that is physically processed to remove impurities. Distilled water and deionized water have been the most common forms of purified water, but water can also be purified by other processes including reverse osmosis, carbon filtration, microporous filtration, ultrafiltration, ultraviolet oxid...
. The main effect of this preparation is to increase the muscular tone of the intestine, and also to inhibit normal peristalsis
Peristalsis

Peristalsis is the rhythmic contraction of smooth muscles to propel contents through the digestive tract. The word is derived from New Latin and comes from the Greek language peristaltikos, peristaltic, from peristellein, "to wrap around," and stellein, "to place."...
. Its main medicinal use is to control fulminant
Fulminant

Fulminant is any event or process which occurs suddenly, quickly and is intense and severe to the point of lethality, i.e, it has an explosion character....
 diarrhea
Diarrhea

In medicine, diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea , is characterized by frequent loose or liquid bowel movements. The spelling of "diarrhea" is an appropriation of the Greek "diarrhoia" meaning "a flowing through." ....
. It is also an antitussive (cough suppressant). Problems with its use include opiate dependency
Opiate dependency

Opioid dependency is a medical diagnosis characterized by an individual's inability to stop using opioids even when objectively in his or her best interest to do so....
 and analgesia which can mask symptoms of diseases that need treatment.

Paregoric is sometimes confused with laudanum
Laudanum

Laudanum , also known as opium tincture or tincture of opium, is an alcoholic Herbalism of opium. It is made by combining ethanol with opium latex or powder....
, because their chemical names are similar: camphorated tincture of opium (paregoric) vs. tincture of opium (laudanum). However, laudanum contains 10 milligrams of morphine per milliliter, 25 times more than paregoric. Confusion between the two drugs has led to overdose and deaths in several patients. Thus the term "paregoric" should be used instead of "camphorated opium tincture," since the latter may be confused with laudanum.

In popular culture

Paregoric is mentioned in the following works:

Literature

  • Nelson Algren
    Nelson Algren

    Nelson Algren was an United States writer....
    's short story "The Captain Has Bad Dreams"
  • many works by William S. Burroughs
    William S. Burroughs

    William Seward Burroughs II was an United States novelist, essayist, social critic, Painting and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life....
    , including The Yage Letters
    The Yage Letters

    The Yage Letters, first published in 1963, is a collection of correspondence and other writings by Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg....
    , Junky, Queer
    Queer

    Queer has traditionally meant odd or unusual, but its use in reference to LGBT communities as well as those perceived to be members of those communities has largely replaced the traditional definition and application in modern usage....
     and Naked Lunch
    Naked Lunch

    Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs originally published in 1959.The book was originally published with the title The Naked Lunch in Paris in 1959 by Olympia Press....
    .
  • Robin Cook
    Robin Cook (novelist)

    Dr. Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.He is best known for combining medical writing with the Thriller genre....
    's Harmful Intent
    Harmful Intent (novel)

    Harmful Intent is a novel by Robin Cook . Like most of Cook's other work, it is a medical thriller....
     (1990)
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Three Gables
    The Adventure of the Three Gables

    The Adventure of the Three Gables, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes....
  • Richard Fariņa
    Richard Fariņa

    Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
    's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
    Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

    Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fari?a. First published in the United States in 1966 the novel, based largely on Fari?a's college experiences and travels, is a comic picaresque story of Gnossos Pappadopoulis that takes place in the American West, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and at an upstate New Yor...
  • James T. Farrell
    James T. Farrell

    James Thomas Farrell was an United States novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and later into a television miniseries in 1979....
    's Studs Lonigan
    Studs Lonigan

    Studs Lonigan is the subject of a trilogy of novels by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day....
  • William Golding
    William Golding

    Sir William Gerald Golding was a United Kingdom novelist, poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies....
    's Rites of Passage (laudanum
    Laudanum

    Laudanum , also known as opium tincture or tincture of opium, is an alcoholic Herbalism of opium. It is made by combining ethanol with opium latex or powder....
     is also mentioned in the book)
  • Homer Hickham's The Coalwood Way (the user in the story is ironically named "Poppy")
  • William Cowper Brann
    William Cowper Brann

    William Cowper Brann was an USA journalist known as Brann the Iconoclast.Born in Humboldt, Illinois, Illinois, Brann was a journalist known for the articulate savagery of his writing....
    's "Brann the Iconoclast" (1898)
  • Rick Moody
    Rick Moody

    Rick Moody is an United States novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a The Ice Storm ....
    's novel The Ice Storm
    The Ice Storm

    The Ice Storm is a 1994 in literature United States novel by Rick Moody. The novel was widely acclaimed by readers and critics alike, hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life....
  • John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck

    John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
    's East of Eden
    East of Eden

    East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize for Literature winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952.Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories....
  • Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty

    Eudora Alice Welty was an award-winning American author and photographer who wrote about the Southern United States....
    's short story "June Recital" from The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1980)
  • Kobo Abe
    Kobo Abe

    , pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe was a Japanese author, playwright, photographer and inventor.His name is romanized as Kobo Abe in Vintage International's English-language editions of his book, while Columbia University Press offers Three Plays by Kobo Abe....
    's The Box Man
  • The "anonymous" work Go Ask Alice
    Go Ask Alice

    Go Ask Alice is a controversial 1971 in literature book about the life of a troubled teenage girl that is considered a classic of American young adult literature....
  • Ken Kesey
    Ken Kesey

    Kenneth Elton Kesey was an United States author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider , was a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s....
    's Sometimes a Great Notion
    Sometimes a Great Notion (novel)

    Sometimes a Great Notion is Ken Kesey's second novel, published in 1964. Although One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion his magnum opus....
  • Anton Myrer
    Anton Myrer

    Anton Olmstead Myrer was an United States author, best known for the historical military novel Once an Eagle....
    's Once an Eagle
    Once an Eagle

    Once an Eagle is a nine hour United States television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer.The picture was written by Peter S....
  • William Faulkner
    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning United States author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short story....
    's "Pylon"
  • Katherine Paterson
    Katherine Paterson

    Katherine Paterson is an award-winning United States author of books for children....
    's "Jacob Have I Loved
    Jacob Have I Loved

    Jacob Have I Loved is a novel by Katherine Paterson that won the 1981 Newbery Medal. The title refers to the sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau in the Jewish and Christian Bible, and comes directly from the Epistle to the Romans 9:13....
    "
  • Caleb Carr
    Caleb Carr

    Caleb Carr is an United States novelist and military historian. The son of Lucien Carr, a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure, he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side....
    's "The Angel of Darkness
    The Angel of Darkness

    The Angel of Darkness is a novel by Caleb Carr. It was published in 1997; and is a follow-up of The Alienist....
    "
  • George Orwell
    George Orwell

    Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an England author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language....
    's "Down and Out in Paris and London
    Down and Out in Paris and London

    Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933, is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities....
    "
  • Joseph Conrad
    Joseph Conrad

    Joseph Conrad was a Polish novelist, writing in English. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties ....
    's short story "The Nigger of the Narcissus"


Stage play

  • Alice Childress
    Alice Childress

    Alice Childress was an United States playwright and author.Childress was born in South Carolina, but at age nine, after her parents separated, she moved to Harlem where she lived with her grandmother....
    's play Wedding Band (as the reason for the lover's sudden illness)
  • Mark Twain "Letters From the Earth"

Movie

  • Night Nurse
    Night Nurse (1931 film)

    Night Nurse is a Pre-Code, Prohibition-era, Warner Bros. crime drama and mystery film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell and Clark Gable....


Television

  • Little House on the Prairie
    Little House on the Prairie

    Little House on the Prairie is a children's book by Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published in 1935. It is part of a series of books known collectively as the Little House series....
    , in the episodes "A Matter of Faith" and "To Live with Fear"
  • M*A*S*H
    M*A*S*H (TV series)

    M*A*S*H is an United States television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 in film feature film MASH . The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS....
    , in the episodes "The Yalu Brick Road" and briefly in "Sticky Wicket".
  • Murder, She Wrote
    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote is an award-winning television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher....
    , in the episode "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Part 2".


Bobby Jones a Stroke of genius the doctor tells o.b keller and his father he can give him paregoric

Music

  • Paregoric by Black River Circus: the music video for this song shows vintage photos of smoke pollution in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
    , and describes the antitussive effects of the medication ("Paregoric let my lungs breath deep").