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Alex Wagner Tonight

like a better word. they reasoned basis for a lot of bison. can you talk a bit more about that what was happening in the 18th and 19th centuries? >> absolutely. as you said, opium was a common ingredient in a lot of different medications. one of the most frequent uses was called latina. this was something regularly prescribed for pain medication for pain tolerance of someone was ill or had trouble sleeping. so for example we know that two first ladies in the 19th century died while their husbands were in the white house, letitia tyler and carole harrison. we don't know what they were prescribed log and was so common at the time that's hard to imagine that was one of the things that suggested. similarly, one of my favorite colorful stories occurred in 1805, when one of the first and only impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place. john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. he had such bad stomach issues

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Alex Wagner Tonight

impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place, and john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. and he had such bad scummic issues his doctor prescribed him opium laced wine, and he was in so much pain he basically was taking a sip of this concoction in between every single sentence and by the end of the trial he could barely stand and was slurring his words because he had taken so much of this what they thought of then as medication. so just goes to show how much our understand of these things have changed. >> we still have the impeachment proceedings but don't have the odium laced wine. is it a big thing he was taking opium laced wine at the time? >> it wasn't so much of a big deal he was taking the wine, rather i think the quantity of it was what people noted and the effect on him because either had hadn't eaten much or he hadn't been sleeping well, so everyone was noticing that he was not his

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Alex Wagner Tonight

carolyn harrison. we don't know what they were prescribed but ladnum was so common at the time that's hard to imagine that was one of the things that suggested. similarly, one of my favorite colorful stories occurred in 1805, when one of the first and only impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place. john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. he had such bad stomach issues that his doctor prescribed him opium laced wine. and he was in so much pain that he basically was taking a sip of this concoction in between every single sentence. and by the end of the trial he could barely stand and was slurring his words because he had taken so much of this, what they thought of then, as medication. so it just goes to show how much our understanding of these things have changed. >> we still have the impeachment proceedings but we don't have the opium laced wine. was it a big deal that he was taking opium laced wine at the time? or was it just, oh there he goes again with the opium laced

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