And Mooney notes that, quote, the major problems he experienced seem to have developed from the improper administration of medicines, including digitalis or foxglove, perhaps laudanum and calomel, and maybe lobaline.
She adopted him as a son who would share her solitude and relieve her from the involuntary laudanum that her mad beseeching had thrown into Remedios' coffee.
There remains but Keats;whom Atropos slew young, as she slew John Clare in a mad-house, and James Thomson by the laudanum he took to drug disappointment.
But a lot of these, especially Digoxin, Digitalis, Laudanum, Calomel, I mean, you start combining these things, you're going to make somebody potentially slur their words or sedated or generally weak.
'There's Bill Sikes in the passage with nobody to do the civil to him; and you sleeping there, as if you took laudanum with your meals, and nothing stronger.