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  • n  an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain

  • He, vexed, indulged himself the more riotously, inhaled ether and took morphia when he found that champagne had no more effect upon him.
  • He treated himself with an "electrical contraption called Pulvermacher's Galvanic Belt," added morphia and colchicum to his diet of drugs.

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