Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
CHLORAL EATING.

need not describe the horrid drug
further than to say it is salt OF burn
ing taste, having q great affinity for
water its basis is chloroform, into which
it is supposed to be changed in the blood.
In small doses it is stimulant and anti
spasmodic /; in larger, narcotic /; while an
overdose produces death as instantane-
ously as a flash of lightning. Like
opium, the dose must be constantly IN
creased to keep up the same effects.
The results of q smaller dose of the drug
On chloral-eater-and why / say " on a
chloral-eater is, because the medical
profession Ito which 1 myself belong)
often err in judging of the actions of GER
tain kinds of stimulant narcotics, such
as opium, Indian hemp, ETC., for this
reason They fake one or two doses of
the drug themselves, and base their
opinion of its action ON the result pro-
duced on their own systems, forgetting
that the same medicine may have to-
tally different effect upon one accus-
toned to its use pelson not smoker
might just as well expect, by taking one
pipe, to tell how real smoker feels I'M
der the influence of tobacco-the results,
then, of lesser dose on real choral
eater are partly of stimulating, partly
of a soothing nature. The stimulation,
however, is not like that caused by
opium or alcohol it is not exhilarating,
and does not incite to action either men
tally or bodily. But the subject of the
influence rises for a time above all his
cares, or sorrows, or fatigue, and seems
to look on life through the medium of a
rose-tinted glass. But while care and
sorrow are forgotten, and a strange
dreamy sense of perfect ease, comfort,
and happiness takes their place, all af-
lection and love are likewise banished.
He is apathetic, and cares for nothing
save his own sense of comfort. He Is, If
I might so express it, merely living,
breathing vegetable. In this state the
confirmed choral-eater would stand by
the deathbed of his nearest and dearest a
passive spectator, if not, indeed, actu-
ally smiling and for the same reason he
would stand quietly on the scaffOld until
executed. If the dose is repeated with
out the choralist lying down, speech be-
comes indistinct, the eyelids drop, and
the gait in walking is affected Just as In
drunkenness from alcohol. The choral
list, drunk i'll the first degree, Is by no
means an unpleasant companion. A
stranger could mark nothing unusual
about lin he is genial, and although
rather languid, and by no means bright
in conversation, he is at all events good
listener, and is easily pleased, although
his smiles often partake of the shipper
ing or hysterical order and, too, he is
at times easily reused into an outbreak
of furious passion, which dies away just
as suddenly as it came. leaving no trace
behind. But, of course, every one will
not be affected precisely alike, as much
depends on the idiosyncrasy or innate
peculiarities of the chloralist.
In my own early stage of chlOral-eat
ing, used to take a small pick-me-ur
dose when starting on q journey by rail
The effect was rather remarkable nj
sense of bodily fatigue and even of un
pleasant motion was banished; seemed
lifted out of myself-a spirit travelling by
train-and the ever-varying scenery wen
gliding past me like an enchanted diora
ma. The difference in the effects o.
choral and opium under the same cir
cumstances would be this, opium is more
imaginative, and paints things as they dc
not really exist-throws Oh artificial hale
around them as it were chloral merely
increases the power of enjoying the real
The picture on the brain of the chloral
list is, 50 to speak, Photographic com
pared to that on the brain of the opium
eater, which might be called phantasma
gorical. But few think, after having
read these memoirs, will care to repea'
my experiments in railway travelling
Belgraria.
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