The San Francisco Examiner (March 24) and the Los Angeles Examiner (March 25) mentioned only the bill's more controversial provisions concerning the sale of
paregoric and corrosive sublimate of mercury.
The drug measure consists of six items that asked respondents if they ever had used the following drugs: marijuana; cocaine; heroin,
paregoric, meperidine, methadone, morphine, or opium; LSD, mescaline, peyote, or other hallucinogens (acid); barbiturates; and amphetamines.
It suggested keeping bicarbonate of soda, boric acid,
paregoric, and sodium perborate.
The principal types of opium used for medical purposes were morphine, laudanum (a solution of opium and alcohol),
paregoric (a camphorated solution of opium and alcohol), and gum opium.
Irving Takes
Paregoric," and a chronology beginning in I792 and ending in 1966.
Gone, or at least forcefully reined in, are the obligatory algorithmics of the Coover style, that tendency to view fiction as a quickstep of likelihoods high-stepped by fortuity and desire, the slavish imitation of which has left many of today's younger writers awash in
paregoric of Cooverismo.
Kaolin pectin mixture (KaoCon/KaoPectate) alone or with
paregoric (Parapectolin) and belladonna mixture (Donnagel-PG) are further short-term remedies that should be avoided until after the first 24 hours of diarrhea.
This decline was partially offset by sales of new products such as Nystatin oral suspension, Lidocaine 5%, Levetiracetam oral concentrate and
Paregoric, launched in February, March, May and August 2012, respectively.
