The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chlorodyne \Chlo"ro*dyne\, n. [From chlorine, in imitation of anodyne.] (Med.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Wiktionary
n. A narcotic drug, made from chloroform, morphia and other substances.
Wikipedia
Chlorodyne was the name for one of the most famous patent medicines sold in the British Isles. It was invented in the 19th century by a Dr. John Collis Browne, a doctor in the British Indian Army; its original purpose was in the treatment of cholera. Browne sold his formula to the pharmacist John Thistlewood Davenport, who advertised it widely, as a treatment for cholera, diarrhea, insomnia, neuralgia, migraines, etc. As its principal ingredients were a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), tincture of cannabis, and chloroform, it readily lived up to its claims of relieving pain, as a sedative, and for the treatment of diarrhea.
Usage examples of "chlorodyne".
A quick shot of arecoline and maybe some chlorodyne to relieve the discomfort and all would be well.
Waterhouse was still sleeping off the effects of his last dose of chlorodyne, and Pollock sat down on a packing-case beside him, and, lighting his pipe, waited for him to awake.
I had suffered a sleepless night from neuralgia, and about midday I had taken a heavy dose of chlorodyne to alleviate the pain.
Confused by the chlorodyne which I had taken, I lay motionless in a semi-conscious state.
Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.
He pronounced the last words with the chlorodyne gum between his side teeth.
I savoured the familiar names: Sweet Spirits of Nitre, Tincture of Camphor, Chlorodyne, Formalin, Salammoniac, Hexamine, Sugar of Lead, Linimentum Album, Perchloride of Mercury, Red Blister.