Dr. Decaisne examined
nicotine poisoning. So long ago as 1868, in consequence of these results,
pupils.
Dr. Gihon, medical director of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in his
the students is that relating to tobacco, and its interdiction is
have been sustained by my colleagues, and by all sanitarians in civil and
under the bondage of a habit that may.html">may become stronger than his will, and
his strength at the very moment when every power should be awake.
Another peril still lies in the wake of this masterful poison habit.
lead to the use of liquor. (See p. 338.)
3. OPIUM.
opium.html">opium.html">opium.html">Opium is the dried juice of the poppy.html">poppy. In Eastern countries, this flower
is made in the poppy head, a tiny tear of milky juice exudes, and hardens.
yielding, it is said, about twenty-five pounds. Throughout the East, opium
(tinctures of opium), and morphine--a powerful alkaloid contained in
nerves, a small dose quieting pain, and a larger one soothing to sleep. It
[Footnote: So far as its effects are concerned, it matters little in what
vaporized, as when inhaled from a pipe. The opium slave is characterized
features, and often by contraction of the muscles of the neck and fingers.
with corrosive sublimate till, finally, this also fails of effect, and he
is correspondingly depressing; and the melancholy, the "overwhelming
gradually increased to produce the original exhilaration. [Footnote: The
which slowly deprives him of health and happiness, finally to end in
may be, the opium must be taken at certain times with.
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