15 minims, or from 25 to 30 drops. It is much used as a domestic
remedy for pain from any cause, such as ear or toothache,
indigestion, insomnia, summer complaints with children or
adults, and is often used in poultices over painful sores or
swellings. It is also used in many medicines for throat and lung
troubles, in nearly all medicines for painful chronic diseases,
and in many of the well advertised spring tonics, as well as in
nearly all the compounds that are offered for sale for blood
troubles, or as alteratives. The opium in laudanum acts the same
as morphine, or any other of the thirty preparations of opium,
officially recognized by the medical profession.

PAREGORIC:--"Paregoric of standard grade is half alcohol, which
is as strong of alcohol as high proof whisky. It contains a
little opium, some benzoic acid, oil of anise, and camphor. The
dose is from 15 to 60 drops.

COCAINE:--"Cocaine is an alkaloid of coca leaves, and is used in
medicine in the form of hydro-chlorate. It is used locally in
powder or solution to relieve pain. It is a strong local
anaesthetic. The ordinary dose when used as medicine is from 1/4
to 1/2 grain, and is very unstable and treacherous in its
effects. Some patients will tolerate large doses while in others
small doses produce unpleasant effects. Deaths are recorded from
the use of 1-7 to 1 grain.

CHLOROFORM:--"Chloroform is an anaesthetic, and death is often
caused by a few inhalations. The dose internally is from 3 to 20
minims. It is not much used in medicine, except to control pain,
and produce sleep. It is inhaled to produce mild slumber, or
complete insensibility in surgical operations. Death may come
suddenly, and without warning, at any time during its
administration.

CHLORAL:--"Chloral, or hydrate of chloral, is an hypnotic. It is
of but little value in medicine, except to control nervousness,
and produce sleep. The dose is from 15 to 30 grains. It should
be administered with caution, and only by the physician. It is
made by passing chlorine gas through pure alcohol, and gets its
name from the first syllables of the two words, chlorine and
alcohol. It produces death by inhibition of the heart's action,
and by paralyzing the pneumogastric nerve.

BROMIDIA:--"Bromidia is the trademark of an hypnotic, the
manufactur