Recent news on Laudanum

The madness behind this extraordinary masterpiece...  -  May 16, 2007
Daily Mail,Ravaged by her TB, for which she took deadening amounts of laudanum, Lizzie withdrew into a world of her own. Though doctors prescribed trips to healthy

Pills cannot cure the human condition  -  May 18, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,The casualness with which these drugs are handed out seems to me no less crass and wicked than the way screaming infants were once dosed with laudanum or

Remembering a city's past  -  May 20, 2007
The Saratogian,Stuart Lehman exhibited his showcase of colonial medical tools, from leeches to laudanum to madeira to local herbs. The Brookside Museum brought toys for

Ronald Hutton - Wicca and other invented traditions  -  May 13, 2007
Independent,He was also a polymath and a laudanum addict. William Stukeley "put Druids on the mental map" of Britain, linking them to Stonehenge and other megalithic

Lyrics confuse even band  -  May 4, 2007
HeraldNet,...who almost single-handedly coined the phrase "literate rock" behind passages such as "medicating in the sun/pinched doses of laudanum/longing for the

Book follows doctor's life in mounted artillery  -  Apr 8, 2007
Roanoke Times,He was in recovery until August 5, 1864, and since he was still suffering pain, he got a prescription for laudanum. Laudanum is a derivative of opium.

E-mail Linked to Prozac?  -  Apr 17, 2007
STATS,...much like people were years ago in the pre-telephone epistolary age, waiting for their letter – any letter – to arrive, and hitting the laudanum.

Q: What's the Creepiest Thing Writer's Block Has Caused Someone to Do?  -  Apr 7, 2007
Blogcritics.org,Well, after she died of a laudanum overdose in 1862, he buried her with the only existing copy of his unpublished poems. Seven years later, however,

Wristwatch lust  -  Mar 30, 2007
Business 2.0,...couple of strange watches but this is like a fantastic taxonomy of machines I may have dreamed while asleep in the welcoming warmth of a laudanum haze.

Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures  -  Apr 3, 2007
Village Voice,...(she was discovered in an English millinery shop; Moss was found at Kennedy Airport) died at 33 of what was commonly believed to be a laudanum overdose.

Fans of historical fiction will enjoy McCaig's 'Canaan'  -  Apr 1, 2007
Wilmington Morning Star,The pains of his war wounds, however, leave Duncan vulnerable to the temptations of laudanum, a liquid tincture of opium. Meanwhile, Jesse Burns, a former

Amazing Grace  -  Mar 27, 2007
InTheNews.co.uk,Wracked by ill-health and developing a laudanum addiction, idealistic young MP William Wilberforce has retired to the country after failing consistently to

Binky Basics: Despite a few concerns, pacifiers have long ...  -  27 Mar 2007
Longview Daily News,Sometimes these bags were moistened with liquids like milk, brandy or laudanum (an opium and alcohol mixture), or contained poppy seeds (from which opium is

So William and Harry are disgracing themselves on cocktails? So ...  -  27 Mar 2007
Guardian Unlimited,...the Brighton Pavilion, and by the 1820s was obese, addicted to alcohol and laudanum, fairly bonkers and determined to fight at the battle of Waterloo.

Amazing Grace (PG) Catch a Fire (12A)  -  Mar 25, 2007
Independent,It opens in 1797 with a laudanum- glugging William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) worn out by repeated failed efforts to push his abolitionist Bill through

How green are his Beverly Hills  -  Mar 22, 2007
Times Online,His meaty role as the laudanum-addicted and colitis-afflicted abolitionist William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace will thus be followed by the soap-opera

The man who had 'Grace'  -  Feb 25, 2007
Joliet Herald News,Q. And he took laudanum? A. He did, but he wasn't alone. Doctors at the time in both England and the US freely prescribed laudanum (a liquid form of opium)

True North: From Arthur Mendonca to Zoran Dobric, Canadian fashion ...  -  Mar 17, 2007
National Post,...palpitations: Models dripping in jet beaded collars vamped languidly for the cameras, evoking Molly Parker after one too many sips of laudanum.

Jealousy Toward David Beckham Cost England the World Cup?  -  Mar 23, 2007
Anglophenia,Ioan Gruffudd on his role in Amazing Grace in The Times: "You read the script and you see the laudanum addiction, and the colitis and you think, 'Yes!

Something's fishy here. How are your olfactory senses?  -  Mar 21, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,...continuing self-delusion, and then they invariably shrug and sigh and go back for more laudanum because, well, it's been this way just about exactly

Bill and Dot and Sam and Sara  -  Mar 18, 2007
New York Times,Coleridge was addicted to opium (in the liquid form of the medical remedy laudanum) and, when not overwhelmingly talkative, was self-destructively indolent.

¿Quién es más macho?  -  Mar 14, 2007
Creative Loafing Atlanta,He was brought down, however, late in the second act when a conniving cross-dresser with access to Tito's mescal dosed him with laudanum."

Koch on film  -  Mar 8, 2007
The Villager,The leader of the group was William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), a Christian and dedicated member of Parliament who, because he was sickly, took laudanum

THUD: TV NEWS ROUNDUP - 3.06.07  -  Mar 6, 2007
Cinematic Happenings Under Development,I don’t really go for that breathy, hopped-up on laudanum, stoned-out-of-her gourd stuff – it brings back memories of that horrible actress from Tombstone.

Amazing Grace (2007)  -  Mar 5, 2007
Real Movie NewsEven though the Thorntons ply him with restorative waters, it doesn't help, and soon Wilberforce is on laudanum to control his painful intestine attacks.

Of slavery, power and God  -  Mar 2, 2007
St. Petersburg Times,...is history, told in poignant detail, as Wilberforce passionately battles both Parliament and a dependency on the painkiller laudanum to secure a victory

Aaron Keith Harris: ‘Amazing Grace’ leaves out hero’s grist of faith  -  Mar 1, 2007
Examiner.comHe had a disease that caused a badly inflamed colon, which kept him weak and dependent on laudanum, the preferred painkiller of the day.

Amazing Grace  -  Mar 1, 2007
The Trades,He's hitting the laudanum pretty hard to stave off the pain, and his spirit for social change is flagging. He meets outspoken beauty Barbara Spooner (Romola

Mental Floss  -  Mar 1, 2007
Columbus Alive,Known as a gambler, a drinker and a laudanum addict, among other things, George IV enjoyed the dubious distinction of being far and away the fattest king in

“Amazing Grace.â€?  -  Feb 25, 2007
New Yorker,Hooked on laudanum (ie, opium), the fashionable painkiller of the day, shaky and disgusted, he is saved by the attentions of Barbara Spooner (Romola Garai),

SLAVE TRADE'S HOLY WARRIOR  -  Feb 22, 2007
New York Post,...who suffers from crippling attacks of colitis, might be diverted from his mission either by death or woozy clouds of laudanum - heroin in a tricorn hat.

Not even Michael Gambon’s 18th-century hat head can save a wretch ...  -  Feb 21, 2007
Phoenix New Times,White as a sheet, plagued by nightmares, and doubled over his laudanum-addicted intestines, Will, as we are encouraged to think of him, tells in flashback

Adequate Grace  -  Feb 15, 2007
Daily Nexus,Wilberforce has the empathy of a saint and even his struggle with laudanum feels conservatively tacked on to improve an already noble character.

Homespun devotion  -  Feb 14, 2007
Kentucky.com,The two consumed a bottle of laudanum she had sneaked into the dungeon. But alas, the dosage only made them sick. The authorities discovered what they had

Keeping up with a diary  -  Jan 27, 2007
The Observer,Had I somehow been taking laudanum? (No.) Creating a recipe? (No, emphatically. I have created only one recipe in my life, thank you.

Too much gin, tennis and hitting the blues…  -  Jan 27, 2007
Cyprus Mail,The hours when poets took out their quills, supped their laudanum, and like Keats wrote their masterpieces. “When I have fears that I may cease to be…�

Michael Apted’s ‘Amazing Grace’ showcases government’s power to do ...  -  Feb 22, 2007
Kansas City Star,On a grimmer note, he suffered poor health and became addicted to laudanum, the opiate prescribed for his painful attacks of colitis.

Too Sweet the Sound  -  Feb 21, 2007
LA Weekly,White as a sheet, plagued by nightmares and doubled over his laudanum-addicted intestines, he tells his blind date — a reform-minded lass named Barbara

A filmmaker's latest finds lessons in the past  -  Feb 18, 2007
New York Daily News,...warts-and-all portrait of Wilberforce, a brilliant eccentric who took in stray animals and homeless people and who struggled with a laudanum addiction.

The World According To Lothar - Special Valentine's Day Edition  -  Feb 13, 2007
Smooth Operator (satire)Paying a street ruffian 5 Pounds Sterling to carry out his final wish, the actor drank a fatal dose of Laudanum. Later that evening, the rogue lay a package

Founder: Rapacious land-grabber or renaissance man?  -  Feb 1, 2007
The Athens News,A terrible laudanum habit? A closet full of frilly petticoats? I shrugged into my trenchcoat and headed for Alden Library to get the skinny on this Cutler

EDITORIAL: Expand federal stem cell funding  -  Jan 10, 2007
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),The days when traveling salesmen pitched laudanum to cure everything from colds to heart diseases to meningitis long since disappeared as medical treatments

Shadow government dealings real problem  -  Jan 9, 2007
Central Maine Morning Sentinel,28): I am the one who would suggest to Brunelle that had his columns over the past 40 years contained something other than treacle and laudanum,

Slip Me an Anodyne  -  Jan 11, 2007
OC Weekly,...sort of tonic/chronic/cthonic effects on the human body that generations of corset-bound pioneer women used to seek in laudanum and automatic writing,

Penney for her thoughts  -  Jan 7, 2007
Scotsman,She knew she would have sought help wherever she could have found it and so the idea of Mrs Ross, a character addicted to laudanum as a result of panic

Real names for real men!  -  Jan 2, 2007
Leader,By half time it had all but wore off so they pumped you full of Laudanum. None of this cocaine sniffing and shooting up class A narcotics.

This sensational murder never stopped the press  -  Dec 23, 2006
Cleveland Plain Dealer,Her murder was as addictive as laudanum to the yellow press, and soon editors were slinging mud at baffled city officials and cooking up cockamamie theories

Audio Book Review: The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips  -  Dec 22, 2006
Blogcritics.org,Bianca Mato is convincing as Trilipush’s laudanum-addicted fiancée, Margaret Finneran. The presence of these exceptional narrators illuminates both the

Film Shorts  -  Jan 4, 2007
The Portland Mercury,...experiencing slow motion video," which includes, but is not limited to: Robitussin AC, Percocet, Methadone, Doriden, Marinol, Laudanum, and Vicodin.

This Week in History  -  Dec 7, 2006
Block Island Times,In all probability, anyone who consistently used laudanum in such a manner would find they never got to 40 drops. Captain Dodge was popular and was lauded

This sensational murder never stopped the press  -  Dec 23, 2006
Cleveland Plain Dealer,Her murder was as addictive as laudanum to the yellow press, and soon editors were slinging mud at baffled city officials and cooking up cockamamie theories

Audio Book Review: The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips  -  Dec 22, 2006
Blogcritics.org,Bianca Mato is convincing as Trilipush’s laudanum-addicted fiancée, Margaret Finneran. The presence of these exceptional narrators illuminates both the

`The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin'  -  Dec 1, 2006
calendarlive.com,We don't need definitions of every term that is not instantly familiar, like "seed-cake" or "laudanum"; we don't need to be told why Stowe describes black

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