(1) Within a year, addicted to laudanum and alcohol and grossly overweight, George IV was dead.(2) Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits.(3) She took laudanum for this, as was the fashion, a habit that brought her to the attention of a fellow poet, the opium addict Coleridge.(4) Doctors would give babies phenobarbital for colic and laudanum (a form of opium) for teething.(5) Any painkillers containing opiates, such as laudanum , were out of the question until the concussion went away.
