Excerpt from The Opium Habit and Alcoholism: A Treatise on the Habits of Opium and Its Compounds; Alcohol; Chloral-Hydrate; Chloroform; Bromide Potassium; And Cannabis Indica; Including Their Therapeutical Indications; With Suggestions for Treating Various Painful Complications
In writing a memoir on the diseased state of the system engendered by the habitual use of powerful drugs and stimulating liquors, and indicating a rational treatment for the same, the author has kept one object steadily in view; he has sought to make his work useful, and to place in the hands of the profession a carefully arranged analysis of the peculiar physical condition induced by such indulgence, a condition which makes necessary each day a certain measure of stimulative, to sustain the system in its abnormal state.
We shall treat each habit separately, describing the abnormal conditions peculiar to each, and defining their essential characteristics. We shall minutely describe the symptoms that appear, and the changes that take place under treatment; so that the practitioner may familiarize himself with them, while following this record of the results of our twelve years" observation. While treating this class of patients in asylums and private practice, the author has exercised scrupulous care in noting each peculiarity, and the treatment which proved successful in relieving each. The causes leading to the habitual use of the narcotics are many, and the more important of them will receive due attention.
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