morphia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Carrington lived for half a day in what must have been awful pain, apologising to her aghast friends through a haze of morphia.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2010
But even morphia could not fully dull the horror of this event.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
The old nurse of learning must bestir herself once more, forswear morphia, and teach her pupils to strike a manlier chord, else men will cease to believe in the ancient magic of her name.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Mr. Robiquet, however, has shown, that the pretended codeate, is a muriate of morphia, formed by double decomposition between the muriate of soda, employed by Mr. Robinet in his analysis, and meconate of morphia.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
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