Show OPIUM AS MEDICINE english institute where you may hit the pipe without losing caste london express tho bare announcement that an institute for the accommodation of those who would smoke opium has been established in the prosaic neighborhood of red lion square is calculated to give imagination rein the fact that it is discreetly titled the 0 P institute suggesting a theatrical fla I 1 vor to those who aro not acquainted i with all tho possible meanings of 0 P Is enough to make imagination take the bit between her teeth there would naturally be found within tho dull shell a riot of luxurious elegance one could see mirrored gilded rooms thick oriental carpets on which the foot fell noiselessly a soft subdued light from shaded lamps languorous couches that ecstatic dreams and of course beautiful hand maidens flitting to and fro bearing light refreshments the reality A waiting room like a thousand other waiting rooms in which patients glare at each other before they see the doctor and a consulting room rather more bare of furniture than most with a compla 0 not very easy chairs a small table on which Is a spirit lamp and two or tareo opium pipes and it it were permitted to give tho name of the doctor who receives you it would be that of a most distinguished physician and surgeon of the highest possible repute who has gained tame for his treatment of ono terrible disease it has long been known that the chinese opium pipe so much abused in that country and elsewhere is yet of very considerable therapeutic value tho late dr J W Shadic num endeavored somo years ago to introduce it into the medical practice ot europe it extensively for chest complaints neuralgia and other maladies involving pain spasm or progressive wasting although inhalation as this modo of administering medicinal substances is termed i said to bo often more effectual than any other his attempt failed partly on account of rooted prejudice partly because alio medical faculty were not conversant with the peculiar art of smoking the pipe with stringent precautions against misuse there 1 no apparent reason according to the eminent authority who has established the institute in red lion square why the opium pipe should not be resorted to in suitable cases As a matter of tact lie says the effect of opium vapor is stimulant not narcotic at each the quantity of morphia which Is conveyed to the lungs and thence in to the system is extremely minute an excessive dose h utterly impossible as a voluntary act for opium smoking Is a slow and relatively tedious process the knack ot accomplishing it at all demands intelligence ind even when this knack has been acquired considerable time la needed for the absorption of a very tiny doe do e ot the opium alkaloids it thus presents an emphatic contrast to all other methods of administering these substances numerous distressing maladies malad iea it Is contended can ba more successfully treated by inhalation alun by any method previously cnown nervous sleeplessness i counteracted at once and the most direct and useful effects are produced in spasmodic and convulsive affections of the nervous system in cancer it lias been tried with great success not merely tor alleviating levia ting pain but with the object of holding the disease directly in check PUT DOWN SIX tharo were six of them each in a new gown it may be that tho gowns anly looked new to the newspaper map but at any rate the young women were quite content with themselves and each other as they boarded a broadway car tiny had very little regard for the dull routine and commonplace mon place details of life the announced intention of all was to transfer to thirty fourth and to this end the girl in the red aliat liat got six transfers but the other live thrle minds before they KL to the transfer point ld d dared themselves in favor of a shopping foray only tho girl with tho red hat stuck to the original plan and boarded the thirty fourth street car to toe conductor who came to tako her fare she handed tho bunch ot trans fere the original six the conductor looked at her and on each side of her and all round her she was oblivious then he said where are tho others the girl looked up startled and confused tor an instant then she spoke with cold dignity all the transfer man gao me sho said new york sun |