单词 | brompton cocktail |
释义 | Brompton cocktailBromp·ton cock·tailBrompton cocktailAn oral analgesic mixture of morphine, heroin, cocaine, chloroform, ethyl alcohol and flavoured syrup, first used in the 1920s at the Royal Brompton Chest Hospital in London for patients with tuberculosis. It was subsequently repurposed and genericised, and refers to any alcoholic solution containing an opioid (heroin or morphine) and either cocaine and/or a phenothiazine to improve the quality of life in terminally ill cancer patients.Bromp·ton cock·tail(bromp'tŏn kok'tāl)Brompton cocktailA mixture of alcohol, morphine and cocaine given for intractable pain in terminally ill people, especially those dying of cancer. The mixture was evolved at the Brompton Hospital, London.Brompton,name of a hospital in London. |
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