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[Paul]

We talking about Paregoric, there was also Terpin Hydrate and  Codeine ?

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>> Opium was once considered to be a member of a set named "dope"?
>> Instead of actually being itself "dope"? I have an unfortunately very
>> vague memory of having heard the use of the word, "dope," to name a
>> substance, otherwise unidentifiable by me, used by "po' folk" in East
>> Texas to pacify babies. Wonder whether there is / was a connection
>> between the "dope" of which opium is one kind and the kind of "dope"
>> once so commonly used to pacify colic-y babies that there was no need
>> to be more specific about its name.
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>> -Wilson
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> Perhaps Paragoric?
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