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Show The Deliriums or Cocaine. ? Cocaine, the new anaesthetic, which as cure for hay fever and similar troubles promises to become a familiar antidote, carries with it evils as great as opium or alcohol when the habit of its use becomes fixed. A Rochester physician describes its peculiar effects upon the svstem that is addicted to it ; When a person in normal nor-mal health is exhilarated bv the use of the drug to such an extent " that natural cowardice is supplanted by the greatest dafmg, the slave to the drug, though previous to his enthrallment one of the bravest of men, becomes the most arrant ar-rant coward. He will, not sleep, except at Kins' intervals Vmt navar lnoaa v.: Z. - "vih luoco.iiio ap petite, eating heartily as soon . as the nausea induced by the in jection passes off. No mental faculties are clouded or dulled, but owing to extreme constipation the victim is a prey to lethargy, and will not undertake any great labor or enterprise, enter-prise, becomes untidy in person, unclean in thought, and morally depraved. Some victims have continued their employment, employ-ment, but, on account of their aversion to action, Mth great diminution of success. Opium, like other narcotics . and intoxicants intoxi-cants used to excess, causes persons to become absolutely indifferent to all relations, rela-tions, duties, and obligations, they even become -brutal, but not nearly, so brutal or depraved as the cocaine slaves. The victim does not sleep, or care to, so long as the drug affects him he will lie awake, happy in the insomnia, seeing everything about him, and yet exhilarated to a wonderful won-derful degree. Hallucinations come with the night, not of the pleasant order usually usu-ally ascribed to opium, but ghastly and horrible phantoms to be chased away only by light. , |