morphinen.

1817 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 405 The author [sc. Sertürner] pretends to have found the active principle of the opium, which he has isolated, and to which he has given the name of Morpheine... The morphine is strongly alcaline, and crystallizes in prisms.

1821 Med. Rec. 4 June 136/1 The discovery of two different principles in this substance, namely, morphine and narcotine has developed this obscurity in the medical history of opium.

1843 Ladies' Repository Mar. 87/1 Katrine's present errand..was to procure morphine for her mother.

1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 115 Took morphine last night, and slept some.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Morphin.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 734 Morphine is only a palliative.

1900 G. M. Gould & W. L. Pyle Anomalies & Curiosities Med. ii. 100 Morphin was administered.

1922 E. Phillpotts Grey Room viii. 183 A woman, who had taken morphine and barbital, was found apparently dead.

1955 Sci. News Let. 2 Apr. 219/2 Morphine and heroin..do not give normal persons the ‘kick’ and pleasant sensations they are supposed to give.

1990 Sciences Jan. 9/1 Why do wounded soldiers need less morphine than civilians recovering from similar surgical wounds?

2006 G. D. Busse Morphine i. 13 Opium and morphine have a long history of use both recreationally and medically.

1868 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 637/1 There is one ‘Successful Attempt to abandon Opium’ and one ‘Morphine Habit overcome.’

1890 Catholic World Feb. 581 Many cases of bad habits, some of them of vile character, have been cured, and also many of the alcohol and some of the morphine habit.

1979 T. Jones Dutch Treat vii. 150 Sleep had not come easy to him in all the years since he had..given up his morphine habit.

2009 J. Szabo Incurable & Intolerable vii. 143 It was only after regular use, often unsupervised, that a full-blown morphine habit was acquired.

1856 Newton's London Jrnl. 4 297 To make black marks or writing, indigolic salts, euxanthic salts, and morphine salts are used.

1913 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 85 440 The solubility of morphine salts in methylalcohol is increased by water.

2007 G. R. Jones in S. B. Karch Drug Abuse Handbk. (ed. 2) xii. 1076 Blood could indicate either use of heroin or a morphine salt (or codeine, if it was also found).

1873 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. Jan. 20 Its [sc. opium's] general use in ‘soothing syrups, cough balsams and cordials’, by ‘opium eaters’, and ‘morphine takers’, are [sic] slaying the innocents and others,..by millions every year.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 317 Sulphate of spartein is used by some morphine takers.

1997 Guardian (Nexis) 3 Oct. t12 The American moviegoers who in 1911 and 1914 flocked to two silent films by Holger Madsen, The Morphine Takers and Opium Dreams.

1852 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 51 We applied leeches to the abdomen, continued the opium and sub-muriate in increased doses, with morphine injections..to control the pain.

1910 Spatula Apr. 410/1 Among male adults the increase is chiefly in opium-smoking and morphine injection.

1992 Physiol. & Behavior 52 179 Opioid-mediated analgesia induced by morphine injection.

2003 A. J. Zautra Emotions, Stress, & Health x. 151 The rats from these two groups were then given morphine injections during half the ensuing trials and saline..during the other half of the trials.

1878 tr. H. von Boeck in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 856 A considerable number of morphine injectors have sprung up—chiefly young doctors—who carry on this pernicious practice.

1997 New Scientist 3 May 49/1 Melioidosis..provides several dramatic examples of the impact of infectious diseases on human affairs, from its first appearance as ‘morphine injectors' septicaemia’ in Rangoon in 1911.

1877 G. Heaton & J. H. Davenport Cure of Rupture ii. 46 A firmness and rigidity which I have never been able to obtain in the needles of the more modern morphine syringes.

1921 B. Sherwood-Dunn Regional Anesthesia ii. 12 The operator should have at his disposal Luer's all glass morphine syringe of 1- to 2-1 capacity.

2005 C. Cussler & J. Du Brul Dark Watch xiii. 167 He injected the two remaining morphine syringes into his arm and waited as the narcotic took effect.

1874 H. W. Longfellow Let. 14 Nov. in S. Longfellow Final Memorials H. W. Longfellow (1887) xi. 222 When you were morphined out of your wits, anything might pass.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) ii. xiv. 437 The child's eyes, struggling out of their morphined immobility, flitted with terror round the room.

1982 Internat. Jrnl. Peptide & Protein Res. 19 259 The reduction of chain length..led to a gradual loss of preference for the morphined receptor.

2012 G. Duncan Talulla Rising xiii. 66 Cloquet, morphined, dozed on the back seat.