Miss Emma
Proper noun
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Miss Emma
(slang) The drug morphine.
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In 1882, the Museum was involved in the establishment of the independent Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) the first British body to carry out research in Egypt. A bequest from Miss Emma Turner in 1892 financed excavations in Cyprus.
"Morphia" is an older official term for morphine also used as a slang term. "Driving Miss Emma" is intravenous administration of morphine.
Miss Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough, "thesis for doctorate at Berne University", then Longmans.