These sometimes have 50 or 60 players with nine sizes of instrument. 1  Oxford Companion to Music. see section 2 of the article on Recorder Family. 2  Hamlet, Act III scene ii, Hamlet: Ah, ha! Come, some music! 3  Paradise Lost, Book I: Anon they move/ in perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood/ flutes and soft recorders.
home / medterms medical dictionary a-z list / chasing the dragon definition Medical Definition of Chasing the dragon Chasing the dragon: A practice of heroin use involving heating heroin and then inhaling it. Some heroin users have gone to this practice because they believe erroneously that it will protect them against contracting HIV and other diseases associated with injecting heroin.
Heroin smoking by 'chasing the dragon': origins and history. by. Strang J, Griffiths P, Gossop M. National Addiction Centre. (The Maudsley/Institute of Psychiatry), London, UK. Addiction 1997 Jun; 92(6):673-83; discussion 685-95. ABSTRACT. The history of heroin smoking and the subsequent development and spread of 'chasing the dragon' are examined. The first heroin smoking originated in Shanghai in the 1920s and involved use of porcelain bowls and bamboo tubes, thereafter spreading across much of Eastern Asia and to the United States over the next decade.