All 3 Uses of
opium
in
Gone with the Wind
- Already the hospitals were worrying about the scarcity of quinine, calomel, opium, chloroform and iodine.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.†
Chpt 3.17
- He had opium.†
Chpt 3.24
Definition:
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(opium) an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy