TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Wikipedia entry of the day: "Paregoric"

By TigerHawk at 2/01/2012 04:37:00 PM

How many of you know what paregoric is? I had gone my entire 50 years without ever having heard of it (other than, perhaps, in a passing reference in some old novel), until the THGF mentioned that it is a very effective symptomatic treatment for, well, vomiting. Too bad the gummint banned it. Must have been the opium.

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6 Comments:

By Anonymous, at Wed Feb 01, 04:54:00 PM:

I remember paragoric. Nasty nasty tasting stuff. Apparently lots of mothers and kids got addicted. Used to be sold over the counter.

By pam, at Wed Feb 01, 04:56:00 PM:

I remember hearing about it as a kid... It was used for horrid diarrhea, coughing, and vomiting. Peristaltically-related issues.... I think of it every now and again when I get bronchitis--the cough medicine with codeine has similar anti-tussive effects...

By Anonymous, at Wed Feb 01, 06:16:00 PM:

I bet I know which old novel, too.

By John Cunningham, at Thu Feb 02, 01:17:00 AM:

I was born in 1945, and I remember getting it as a kid, for toothache. I remember it tasted horrible.

By MTF, at Thu Feb 02, 11:27:00 AM:

Is it banned? How about that, I had not idea...I too hated it as a child.

By Gedaliya, at Fri Feb 03, 03:42:00 PM:

In the 60s we used to smoke tobacco saturated with paregoric and pretended to get high.

In actuality, it didn't do a damn thing.