Show THE OPIUM HABIT A few la stances of the rittel rower power of morphia and aiu Ch chloral lorall but few outside of the edical in inc profession have any ally conception of the vast a bount of morphia and chloral consumed by pers have become addicted to their heir use the universal testimony of these unfortunate fortunate men and women is that the habit once formed it is next to impossible to escape from its thralldom tile effect of these dru drus drugs s is so exhilarating exhilaration tv that the tired overworked mother in the new life co coursing ursino 0 through t her veins ahna imagines aines Iter herself self ready for any conflict while the poor besotted youth who alio lias lia s lost all traces of the noble manhood up upon on which lie he was just entering is is in intoxicated with the splendors of the kill kingdom d out which ivsich his intoxicated intoxicate brain asserts to be liis his own one of the saddest cases of opium eating that hwi has visar come under my my observation was that of a young nt leman lee adams by name baltic I 1 a de descendant cendana of tile the renowned family cami which twice occupied the highest seat scat in in tho the ll 11 gift ift t of the american people ile he brought to with him to our college town rare qualities both as an orator ind and author I 1 can give you no impression of the eloquent addresses to which we were treated Stif suffice fice it to sav say that liis his audiences went away charmed with I 1 his ii s grandeur rani leur no t terms erms were too ex trava triva gant ant to express the admiration of liis his hearers the college faculty engaged 0 him fora for i series of lectures lecture S ind and I 1 IV while I 1 tile in the very zenith of his popularity I 1 it y a clap as f from rom a clear sky caused the people to pause suddenly and shell shed tears fears over their shattered idol it was on a beautiful still sabbath mi icing while the villa villagers ars were as sc for morning worship that officers of justice from the city arrived with papers for the arrest of one lee adaner Adam tile ve a large c of of robbery and lunch to the amazement of the populace the missing diamonds were discovered in his trunk it nil all came out then the fact that lie he was in an inveterate in morphia orphia eater and tile the people held the secret of his mo godiness diness which the physicians had kepi quiet up to this hour ile he acknowledged ed his guilt ailt de declaring clarin that the theft was committed while under tile the influence of tile the power powerful lul narcotic he delivered the jewels e melq to the officer but assied that lie might bo be permitted to enter tile inebriate as alum instead of bein beine carried to prison through the influence of prominent nien men ills his requested was arran granted ted and thou though gh several years have 1 posed 1 s e d away since that morning we ive have never heard any thing thing n concerning him lie said lie could take e seventeen seventeen grains I 1 rains of ni morphia orphia at a sin single le dose and I 1 this considering 0 that a quarter ua arter of a traill 5 grain is the amount usually prescribed was sixty eight times as much as rl a person not addicted to its use could I 1 bear I 1 have in mind a young physician who vito during to liis ills last year at tile the Ill medical edical college L contracted the habit of using 0 ZhI chloral oral lie he was ill lily gifted f ted and to I 1 his natural fine abilities were added all the graces of an accomplished unaccomplished education during the three years that he remained in in his chosen profession through theonah his kindness of heart and acknowledged cl skill lie he won hosts of friends still tile the fatal thirst was consuming him by in inches clies and time af after ter time I 1 liis T S brother physicians labored for hours 11 to snatch him from the very jaws of death but there came a time fline when even their power was useless and before lie ho had reached the close of liis his twenty fourth fear the clods of the valley had covered the ac form we had all learned to love forever from our view I 1 might add many other instances of the fatal power of these drugs but my note of warning has been sounded bounded I 1 and that is ill all for which I 1 lifted my pen A doctors wife wi fe in comans womans magazine |