morphian.

1817 Ann. Philos. 10 153 The existence and properties of morphium..have been ascertained... It will be necessary to change the name to morphia, to make its termination agree with the other alkalies.

1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 23 It is now..fifteen years since I first used..the muriate of morphia medicinally.

1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 753 Morphia is the chief and essential constituent of opium.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xii. 152 Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect. Her faint became a profound slumber.

1939 ‘N. Shute’ Ordeal ii. 44 The only thing we haven't got is any sort of sedative—morphia, or anything like that.

1957 J. C. Adams Outl. Fractures ii. 39 If morphia or a similar drug is given at the scene of the accident a note to that effect should be sent with the patient when he is admitted to hospital.

1982 V. Brome Ernest Jones v. 38 She had begun taking morphia twice a day to cope with the pain.

1993 E. Murphy Nest of Singing Birds (BNC) 344 The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time.

1891 Daily News 23 Mar. 5/1 The morphia habit of the deceased.

1941 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 104 146 In 1901 the number of causes of violent deaths was reduced by the transfer to general diseases of deaths from food poisoning, ptomaine poisoning..and morphia habit.

1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 177 Morphia and Ipecacuanha Lozenges.

1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 109 The opium or morphia salts become absorbed.

1871 Proc. Royal Soc. 1870–71 19 510 The same doses of morphia-salt given to a young kitten produce the same flow of saliva.

a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xix. 121 He..gave us both morphia injections.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 8 Dec. Morphia injection puts her out. In that deep drugged sleep she dreams again.

1881 Trans. Obstetr. Soc. 22 132 Dr. Godson tapped it with a morphia syringe.

1979 Econ. Hist. Rev. 32 92 This device, which an earlier Secretary of the Finance Department [of India, c1920] had called to ‘reach for the morphia syringe’, was thought to be prejudicial to public confidence in the convertibility of the paper currency.