narcotism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- narcotist noun
Etymology
Origin of narcotism
Example Sentences
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In undue somnolence, in nervous headache, in narcotism, also, at times when the exigencies of life require excessively prolonged wakefulness, caffein may be used as the most powerful agent known for producing wakefulness.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
This is the aesthetic variety of the malady, or rather, perhaps, it is only the old complaint robbed of all its pain, and lapped in waking dreams by the narcotism of an age of science.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
Chronic encephalitis or meningitis may succeed the acute stage, or may be due to stable miasma, blood poison, narcotism, lead poisoning, etc.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The desire to sleep was intoxicating, delicious, irresistible; and with it ran delicious, restful thrills through all his limbs, the narcotism of the blood.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
Yet the tincture is followed by a more rapid narcotism, but of shorter duration, and attended with more nerve disturbance at the onset.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
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