Show f THE COCAINE HABIT Attention has hu been called to the fact that the cocaine habit is increasing In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States State and that the pure food and medicine law is 18 not riot In itself sufficient clent d ent to stop the sale of the pernicious drug Cocaine has been eliminated from most of ot the patent medicines but It continues to be sold oId in a raw state The Tire New York Times prints some facts which call for immediate action by the medical l association n ot of that city aswell as well as by officers of 01 the law According to the Times each of the three largest druggists of repute sells to specialists only one to three ounces a month the legitimate demand for the drug Is therefore small But a druggist on the upper east fest side aide has been buying cocaine at the rate of ounces in twentythree days another druggist in hi Brooklyn has replenished his stock with sixty ounces in twenty days and sixty three other drug stores traffic In the stuff in the same ratio but may ma not be convicted of 01 selling cocaine illicitly A physician would hardly use over one fiftieth of an ounce a month in regular practice yet some licensed doctors it itIs ItIs itIs Is discovered actually use from 1000 1060 to times that amount each month Manifestly their practice Is irregular No more damnable method of gaining wealth could be employed The very sight of a cocaine fiend is horrify horrifying ing and the tire thought that these unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate beings have been made wrecks by mercenary me nary druggists or doctors brings home to the average citizen the fact that he is not doing his whole duty unless he M makes vigorous protest It is isto Isto isto to be hoped the traffic in the drug in Salt Lake is to 18 limited n |