Show monkeys as opium eaters dr cammers Jam mers in a memoir sent to the Acad emle des sciences states that monkeys unlike other animals unless it ts is the human animal readily acquire the habit ot of taking morphia when monkeys live with opium smokers as they do in eastern countries where the habit is more prevalent than elsewhere and become accustomed to the medicated atmosphere they acquire a taste for the P pipe pe una one particular monkey it is said would wait for his master to lay down his pipe and would then take it up and smoke what remained ped it if not allowed to do so tor for several lays days it would fall into a state of depression and in inactivity activity which would disappear as soon as it was allo allowed weI to hit tho pipe pall mall mail gazette |