“I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.” (Shelley 118).
Laudanum was an opiate that was popular during the Victorian era; it was highly addictive and a strong painkiller. (http://www.nycgoth.com/more/laudanum/) It would not have been uncommon for Frankenstein to take this drug during this time period.
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