laudanum

Seanachai · 07-10-2016 03:29PM #1

Does anybody know if laudanum was widely used among working class people in Ireland when it was legal?

The_Valeyard · 07-10-2016 03:32PM

Seanachai wrote: »

Does anybody know if laudanum was widely used among working class people in Ireland when it was legal?

Possibly in the 19th century with the whole opium thing.

brevity · 07-10-2016 03:34PM

Wasn't it used with Absinthe back in the day?

Ted111 · 07-10-2016 03:38PM

I sometimes have a dash of lime in my pint of budweiser.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-10-2016 03:39PM

Opium dens would provide a welcome alternative to the pub and club scene

The_Valeyard · 07-10-2016 03:42PM

Ted111 wrote: »

I sometimes have a dash of lime in my pint of budweiser.

Leave this place and never come back.

Drinking Budweiser...
Have you no sense of decency, sir???

Seanachai · 07-10-2016 04:03PM

brevity wrote: »

Wasn't it used with Absinthe back in the day?

"Last night as I lay dreaming
My way across the sea
James Mangan brought me comfort
With laudnum and poitin"

Seanachai · 07-10-2016 04:05PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Opium dens would provide a welcome alternative to the pub and club scene

I've never indulged, I don't think it's a very sociable substance though. Would probably cut down on public disorder, until the users ran out of money that is.

super_furry · 07-10-2016 04:10PM

Scottish teenage Werewovles are very partial to the stuff, or so I hear.

Seanachai · 07-10-2016 04:15PM

super_furry wrote: »

Scottish teenage Werewovles are very partial to the stuff, or so I hear.

If it calms them down and stops them from going through my bins it's fine with me

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 07-10-2016 04:23PM

It was part of common cough remedies in the 19th century but working class Irish wouldn't have had ready access to it back then. It was more a drug of the upper classes, both as a prescribed medicine and un-prescribed.

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