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1 " But they turned out to be prescriptions for medicines, and not for the common cold: opium, lavender oil, belladonna, orange rind, chloral hydrate, strychnine, potassium bromide. Such sedatives and stimulants were common remedies at that time for epilepsy. "
― , Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
2 " How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture? "
― Hanif Kureishi , The Last Word