>> Children in the nineteenth-century were also subjected to the opium >> problem. Parents with teething children, mostly poor parents, used >> opium-based cures for the pain. > >Gosh, Stella, that is pretty awful! I cant imagine parents or country GPs & >pharmacists would have access to opium out here in the sticks in >Bedfordshire...and the poor wouldnt have been able to aford it. Cheap patent medicines in common use. (And for that matter, a couple of GPs in rural Bucks won a prize for growing opium for medicinal; purposes.) -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society