- a variation of morphine.
morphia
Americannoun
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Carrington lived for half a day in what must have been awful pain, apologising to her aghast friends through a haze of morphia.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2010
However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
But even morphia could not fully dull the horror of this event.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I will—or I pray—that he shall lie still without morphia, and that he shall have no pain.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
Dubourg has recently published the result of an experiment made at the hospital de la Pitié, with the acetate of morphia, which we regard as sufficiently interesting to be noticed in this place.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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