All 14 Uses of
opium
in
Middlemarch
- He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium.†
Chpt 1
- Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and the effects of the opium had convinced him that there was an entire dissimilarity between his constitution and De Quincey's.†
Chpt 1 *
- When I say, I go in for the dose that cures, it doesn't follow that I go in for opium in a given case of gout."†
Chpt 5
- Under the first galling pressure of foreseen difficulties, and the first perception that his marriage, if it were not to be a yoked loneliness, must be a state of effort to go on loving without too much care about being loved, he had once or twice tried a dose of opium.†
Chpt 7
- But just as he had tried opium, so his thought now began to turn upon gambling—not with appetite for its excitement, but with a sort of wistful inward gaze after that easy way of getting money, which implied no asking and brought no responsibility.†
Chpt 7
- Lydgate, when abroad, had already been interested in this question: he was strongly convinced against the prevalent practice of allowing alcohol and persistently administering large doses of opium; and he had repeatedly acted on this conviction with a favorable result.†
Chpt 7
- The chief new instruction that Lydgate had to give was on the administration of extremely moderate doses of opium, in case of the sleeplessness continuing after several hours.†
Chpt 7
- He had taken the precaution of bringing opium in his pocket, and he gave minute directions to Bulstrode as to the doses, and the point at which they should cease.†
Chpt 7
- At six o'clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate's directions.†
Chpt 7
- She began now to ask what else she should do besides administering the opium.†
Chpt 7
- The thought was, that he had not told Mrs. Abel when the doses of opium must cease.†
Chpt 7
- He feels sinking away, and nothing else will he swaller—and but little strength in it, if he did—only the opium.†
Chpt 7
- He looked round the room and saw a bottle with some brandy in it, and the almost empty opium phial.†
Chpt 7
- "It has come to my knowledge since," he added, "that Hawley sent some one to examine the housekeeper at Stone Court, and she said that she gave the patient all the opium in the phial I left, as well as a good deal of brandy.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(opium) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy