Category: Health & Medicine
A higher degree of civilization, bringing with it increased mental development among all classes, increased cares, duties and shocks, seems to have caused the habitual use of narcotics, once a comparatively rare vice among Christian nations, to have become alarmingly common.
A higher degree of civilization, bringing with it increased mental development among all classes, increased cares, duties and shocks, seems to have caused the habitual use of na...
6. CHAPTER II.Laudanum was De Quincey’s favorite. He avers that he has taken as high as 8000 drops in the course of twenty-four hours. Coleridge is credited with having taken more. A patient,...
7. CHAPTER III.I am of the opinion that a clearer and consequently more thorough understanding of this part of the subject can be obtained by classing the various effects of the continued use...
8. CHAPTER IV.Albuminuria, usually temporary, is not an uncommon result of the prolonged use of morphia. The deposit, after applying heat and nitric acid, may vary from one-twentieth to one-s...
9. CHAPTER V.There are certain dangers attending the temporary or continued use of morphia by the hypodermic syringe that deserve careful attention, in order that, if possible, they may be r...
10. CHAPTER VI.So many of our fellow-men have been, in the past, are now, and will be, bound hand and foot in this terrible bondage, from which they seem utterly incapable of releasing themsel...
11. CHAPTER VII.Limited space forbids my illustrating each modification of treatment with pertinent cases, and I content myself with discussing the various drugs and agents used, and the indica...
12. CHAPTER VIII.But little attention has been paid in this country to the habitual use of chloral. German and English literature is more abundant, but at best vague and unsatisfactory, and the...
13. CHAPTER IX.As I said in my last chapter, it is not every person who uses chloral for a lengthened period who becomes an habituè, and it is not every habituè who is affected in every way as...
14. CHAPTER X.The effect of chloral upon the organs of digestion is twofold. (_a_) That due to its local action, and (_b_) its effects produced through the medium of the nerves supplying the...
15. CHAPTER XI.The symptoms incident to the abrupt withdrawal of chloral from those who have used it for a long time are rarely severe; never so severe as those attending the same procedure in...
16. CHAPTER XII.A common practice in some of the far Eastern countries—hashisch taking—is comparatively rare among the people of civilized nations. Here, as there, the practice is not one of st...
17. CHAPTER XIII.From the abundant evidence upon this point I think we must conclude that the abuse or habitual use of narcotics is steadily upon the increase, especially the subcutaneous use of...