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单词 paregoric
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paregoricn.adj.

Brit. /ˌparəˈɡɒrɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈɡɔrɪk/
Forms: 1600s paregorick, 1600s paregorique, 1700s paragorick, 1700s– paragoric, 1700s– paregoric.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin paregoricus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin paregoricus soothing (5th cent.; also paregoricum , noun, 1676 in the passage translated in quot. 1684 at sense B.) < ancient Greek παρηγορικός soothing < παρήγορος comforter (first attested as adjective in Hellenistic Greek; < παρα- para- prefix1 + -ηγορος in sense ‘speaking’ < ἀγορά agora n.1; compare ἀγορεύειν to speak in the assembly) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French parégorique , adjective (1549; now rare) and noun (1765). With use as adjective compare earlier paregorical adj.With forms in para- compare para- prefix1.
A. n.
A pain-relieving or soothing medicinal preparation, esp. an opiate; (in later use) = paregoric elixir n. at Compounds. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun]
paregoric1671
antalgic1753
painkiller1849
analgesic1874
analgetic1877
pain reliever1920
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > other analgesics > plant-derived
tormentila1400
laudanumc1602
paregoric1671
tormentil-root1712
paregoric elixir1746
loddy1811
morphia1817
morphine1817
morphium1817
veratria1821
veratrine1822
veratrin1830
veratroidea1874
diacetylmorphine1875
tonga1880
diamorphine1914
1671 G. Thomson Μισοχυμὶας Ἔλεγχου 29 How sollicitous then ought all honest Experimental Physicians to be in the chase of Zoticks, Paregoricks, and corroboratives.
1677 J. Locke Jrnl. 29 July in K. Dewhurst John Locke (1963) 87 The paregorique to which they ascribed all these good effects.
1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. iii. ii. 105 Among the Medicines.., those they call Paregoricks, such as liquid Laudanum..excel the rest.
1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. 105 Opiates and Paregorics are the white and red Poppies and Cowslips.
1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 129 Taking only a paregoric at night.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 36 This acted like a paregoric for a little time.
1852 M. S. Turner Let. 6 in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 306 I am afraid Lavinia's nurse gave her Babe Paragoric.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 154 We endeavour..to relieve cough, particularly at night, by paregoric and other anodynes.
1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 264/1 His book is nothing more than a welter of clerical paregoric—a wholesale dose of the same pap with which humble parish priests ease the spiritual tummies of morons with Katzenjammer of the conscience.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 65 Evenings he sat in his little log shack back of the hotel drinking paregoric and mumbling about God.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 76 I am deathly ill our last day in Cozumel, but by the time we are headed for Merida, I can control my runs with paregoric.
2003 Addiction 98 1599 Morphine chlorhydrate..was administered in divided doses to seven children and gave better results than paregoric alone or in combination with diazepam.
B. adj.
Of a medicinal preparation: relieving pain, soothing. Also figurative. Now only in paregoric elixir n. at Compounds.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [adjective]
anodyne1543
paregorical1651
paregoric1678
antalgic1753
pain-killing1865
analgetic1867
opioid1959
morphinomimetic1968
1678 G. Harvey Casus Medico-chirurgicus 18 A Paregorick Liniment.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 190 The fury of the bloud is restrained..by a paregorick draught of Diacodium.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §75 It [sc. tar-water] is..both paregoric and cordial.
1784 Med. Communications 2 18 I directed a paregoric draught to be taken at night.
1844 N. Amer. Rev. July 36 We shall therefore adorn our essay only by short extracts—double extracts of poppy from its paregoric pages.
1890 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 53 663 More tropically another inspired bard has indicated the paregoric use of an interest in statistics.

Compounds

paregoric elixir n. [after post-classical Latin elixir paregoricum ( Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum, Londinensis (1745) 59); compare French elixir parégorique (1795)] camphorated tincture of opium (tincture of opium containing camphor, benzoic acid, and anise oil), used originally as an analgesic, later as an antispasmodic and for the treatment of withdrawal symptoms in newborn infants of narcotic-addicted mothers.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > other analgesics > plant-derived
tormentila1400
laudanumc1602
paregoric1671
tormentil-root1712
paregoric elixir1746
loddy1811
morphia1817
morphine1817
morphium1817
veratria1821
veratrine1822
veratrin1830
veratroidea1874
diacetylmorphine1875
tonga1880
diamorphine1914
1746 H. Pemberton tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians 283 Elixir Paregoricum, the Paregoric Elixir.
1751 T. Stack tr. R. Mead Med. Precepts v. 113 Of all this tribe [sc. anodynes] I know no better medicine than the paragoric elixir.
1788 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 10) App. 766 Paregoric Elixir. Take of flowers of benzoin, half an ounce; opium, two drachms. Infuse in one pound of the volatile aromatic spirit.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paregoric Elixir, name for the Tinctura opii camphorata, or English paregoric elixir, to distinguish it from the Tinctura opii ammoniata, which was formerly also called paregoric elixir.
1977 Lancet 9 July 78/2 Opiates—chiefly laudanum, the camphorated tincture known as paregoric elixir, and raw opium, sold in pills and penny sticks—were widely used both on medical prescription and as self-medication by those who could not afford medical treatment.
1988 Drugs 36 (Suppl. 4) 39 There were many ‘antidiarrhoeal’ drugs, such as water adsorbents (kaolin and pectin) and antiperistaltics (opium, paregoric elixir, diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulphate and loperamide).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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