I wouldn't be surprized if some of revolutionary politicians did use laudanum at least occasionally. By the nineteenth century (so I am assuming by the last decade of the eighteenth century as well), it was used rather widely as treatment for, among other things, anxiety and insomnia, conditions with which a revolutionary politician would likely be familiar.
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Date: 2008-10-14 01:20 pm (UTC)