This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr., or from dry."] Something dried to make a medicine. Applied to medicinal agents used in the treatment of disease, or more generally the crude substances which, after they have undergone preparation, are usually called medicines. To be drugged is more particularly applied to those suffering from a narcotic medicine, which produces stupor, and sometimes death.
 
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