"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote
>
> I understand that it was used a lot for teething and colicy babies...
> and was one of the most effective medications available.
> --

It is an opiate derivative. It ruined a lot of lives as people got addicted.

During prohibition in the 1930s, people got off of alcohol by using
paragoric.

Then they had an opiate addiction.

You could sign for it at the druggist's until you started signing for it too
often,
then they cut you off.

I investigated the life of a family in which not only the son but his mother
were
addicts. Very sad.