| 1. | If he had the GIs, I dispensed bismuth and paregoric.
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| 2. | Paregoric was used in various formulations for hundreds of years.
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| 3. | Paregoric is currently listed in the United States Pharmacopeia.
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| 4. | The children were drugged with paregoric to keep them quiet while slave patrols rode by.
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| 5. | Camphor is a component of paregoric, an opium / camphor tincture from the 18th century.
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| 6. | In Eastern culture, opium is more commonly used in the form of paregoric to treat diarrhea.
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| 7. | The current formula for Paregoric, U . S . P . should not be assumed to be universal.
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| 8. | Paregoric was classified as an " Exempt Narcotic, " as were other medical products containing small amounts of opium or their derivatives.
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| 9. | However, Paregoric was characterized as " a needlessly complex pharmacopeial mixture . . . of a former day " by a 1966 study.
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| 10. | In France, paregoric was available without prescription until 1986; nowadays, it is used to wean infants born to opiate-addicted women.
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