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GCSE English Literature · key term
An addictive preparation of opium dissolved in alcohol, widely used as a medicine in the nineteenth century.
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Paper 1
A medicine made from opium dissolved in alcohol, widely used in the nineteenth century for pain and other ailments.
Revise: ContextOpium was widely available in laudanum, a cheap medicine used for pain, coughs and other conditions.
Paper 2
is opium dissolved in alcohol. In the nineteenth century it was cheap, widely available and commonly used as medicine, including for pain and sleeplessness. It was also addictive.
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Component 2
Revise: ContextLaudanum is opium dissolved in alcohol. It was cheap, widely available and commonly used in nineteenth-century medicines for pain, coughing and sleep. It was also addictive.
An addictive preparation made by dissolving opium extracts in alcohol, widely used in nineteenth-century medicines for pain relief and other purposes.
A preparation of opium dissolved in alcohol, widely used in the nineteenth century as a medicine, but capable of causing addiction and fatal poisoning.
