Show I PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE j The Fatal Drus That for tho Moment 3Iakes Life n Dream of Happluess An English authority gives the following graphic description of the action of morphia and the experience of those who are known I as morphia fiends Imagine an instrument about the size of a Dencil case constructed somewhataCterjHo 1 model of a wasps stlnEmiiifittninto a tiny case that will go with ease into the waistcoat pocket or the bosom of the dress This lathe of the skin injector and I slight puncture sin with the waspish point is sufficient t enable the of the Quid to be required quantity te magic fud t b discharged into the system There are three distinct stages of morphia absorption n of duration the last briefest them brief in duraton th lt one brefe of all a During the first stage the results are purely pleasurable they bring a draught of fresh life into jaded limbs The faculties receive a sudden stimulus the callous sense of pleasure is sensitive once more the vision of the world cast on the mental eye is drawn in rosy lines the whole appreciation of things earthly is that of one who is prepared to drain the cup of life to the bottom and enjoy it to the full The subject lives in a gin mourous sense of vague happiness her half clos eyes reveal the state of exquisite lassi tude which laps her limbs she feels that her one enemy is exertion she is to happy t trouble about anything In time however a change comes oer the spirit of this rose colored rcam Its continuity becomes broken by dreadful intervals in-tervals of reaction during which the victim I oppressed by all the horrors of intense melancholy and weakness and from which relief can only be obtained by continual repetition of the process of injection It is s easy t drive away the blue devils that are making themselves apparent to check the reaction which has begun to set in t change the dark shadows which are clouding over the vision of life into the rainbow hues of the morning to transform the victim of melancholy the prospective suicide into this laughing child of pleasure S easy but only by constant use of the fatal drug and a the former blight injections have lot their power larger doses of the stimulant must b launched into the system The result however of the increase of the quantity injected is to develop the feeling of lassitude until in time such a brief period it completely overpowers the senses and the victim becomes practically lost to the world She lives in a rose colored world of her own in which happiness reigns supreme and which she would not leave if she could for her reentry re-entry into the life she has forsaken can only t > o accomplished by passing througha period of intense mental and bodily torture She knows that she is slowly I dying that she is slipping to extinction in a soulless mechanical mechani-cal way like a clock which inevitably runs down when its motive power is exhausted I but her appreciation of abstract ideas has b come blurred lifo has lost its meaning death its terrors Better it is i she thinks so far as she compares her condition at all to fade slowly and 1 happily out of life without n thought or a ale to checker the last brief period of existence than to face the struggle by which alone she could be saved It his Iwn rvsurvod for motel science to brins Into existence jlub the dreams of the ancient poets the drug which conferred happiness unfheckered am unalloyed Were it possible however to analyze the mental condition the victim during the hours of reaction it might lie possible to realize alt al-t tntm r th lnmn1 in I ii slisr hell I Spulklins I Vater A very good way to prepare ones stomach for a days work in warm weather is said to be to drink a glass of some sparkling water the reason given heummg i that there isa mucous secretion that covers the stomach lining memlirano after hUe hours of inactivity and this nerds to he l removed efore l digestion fairly begins Xothing does Ibis better than a copious draught of sparliling water whoso carbonic icsd sweeps thus organ clean and makes it ready for the day later It ordinarily ordi-narily has 1 slight purgative action also and it i of the utmost importance now that the lx > wels do their work well Neglect of this mot important function is almost HIre to tiring about seriou troubles Cure fur UeadiiM of Olil ARC A Milan physician reports that ho has successfully suc-cessfully treated sixtytwo cases of deafness Tom oM age He mop the mcrnbraiiii tym paul with a weak oleaginous solution of phos ihoms Ho claims that this diminishes the opacity of the membrane Increases the circulation cir-culation and improves the hearing |