英语词汇“Brompton cocktail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Brompton cocktail

/ˈbrɒmpt(ə)n

noun

A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other spirit laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients....

Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail."
Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail".

Origin

Late 20th century: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.

单词	Brompton cocktail
释义	Brompton cocktail /ˈbrɒmpt(ə)n / noun A powerful painkiller and sedative consisting of vodka or other spirit laced with morphine and sometimes also cocaine.His situation degenerated to the point he was downing Brompton cocktails, a mixture of 60 percent morphine, 30 percent cocaine, and 10 percent gin, meant for terminal cancer patients.... Over the next twenty years of writing and lecturing, Saunders did much to promote this mixture and other variants of the "Brompton Cocktail." Certain estimable English doctors were once in the habit of administering to terminally-ill cancer patients an elixir known as the "Brompton cocktail". Origin Late 20th century: said to be from the name of Brompton Hospital, London, where the mixture was invented for cancer patients.
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