| 单词 | brompton cocktail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBrompton cocktail attributive and in the genitive, esp. in Brompton cocktail, Brompton mixture. A liquid medicine used to relieve pain or distress in terminally ill patients, originally containing alcohol, morphine, cocaine, and chloroform water, sweetened with syrup. Now historical. [Apparently named after the Brompton Hospital (now the Royal Brompton Hospital) in London where the mixture was first developed.] ΚΠ 1950 Archivum Chirurgicum Neerlandicum 2 233 In our clinic the so-called ‘Brompton cocktail’ is used; it is praised as a sedative and also increases euphoria. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 1819/1 The majority of patients can be kept pain free by oral medication (tablets or the liquid Brompton mixture) until the last few days of life. 2018 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Feb. 20 In my early years in hospital pharmacy we made Brompton's Cocktail in accordance with prevailing clinical guidelines, that is, ‘to order, for terminal patients’. < as lemmas |
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