The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-06-24

slav, ry, he ,nnot ignore the demand Ills
system makes upon him for more and more.
THE WILL CANNOT CONTROL THE HABIT.
De Quincy, the poet, who fell victim 10
its use, truthfully said, "that God seemed
70 help man out Of every trouble except
ing opium.' As yet, there has been but
very little written upon the subject OF
opium As habit, and great numbers OF the
medical profession consider 1t 10 great
extent q matter OF will-power with the
patient, and they have given this important
matter little or no study. They are not,
therefore. prepared to treat the habit sue.
cessiully. For that deplorable reason the
treatment Of this terrible disease has been
left almost entirely in the hands OF adver.
tsng qraaks who do not cure one person In
fvy. ltis impossible that the will or NOR
al power can overcome the habit, for every
part Of the system is involved. You might
as well try TO cure broken limb, or stop q
raging fever, or subside mad delilium In
that way as to think of overcoming the
opium habit except by systematic treat'
ment. II the slave misses his regular dose
the nervous system relaxes, and there is no
torture, not even the stake, that equals the
torment he is in, both in body and mind,
~ he Dies not obtain that for which he
Graves. The shock that his nervoussystem
receives is so great that If his life isspared
he will not recover from IL for months.
MOTHERS SACRIFICE THEIR CHILDREN.
Many children are sacrificed yearly by
the habit: The mother whose system Is
impregnated with the drug not only trans
mits 1t at birth, but keeps the supply up
from the breast, and when the child is
weaned IL dies for the want of opium, with
chronic diarrhoea. The mother should be
cured OF the habit while nursing the child,
snd the child is cured with the mother. DIR.
Hubbard referred to case that he had sue
cessiully treated OF a child seven years old,
who had taken laudanum from birth. The
mother was addicted to the drug, and in
bringing up the child on bottle from birth,
she was dying tor the want OF opium. The
family physician gave the child the best
treatment he could, to no purpose, when
the mother gave 1t one drop Of laudanum
day. The child recovered at once, the
laudanum was continued, and at seven It
was consuming six tesspoonfuls of lauda-
mum per day.
BEDRIDDEN PATIENTS.
Many persons, and especially ladies', are
hopelessly bedridden to-day on account OF
opium. They may at some previous time
been quite sick, and for that reason opium
may have been given to allay pain or cause
sleep but had it not been fol- the constant
use OF opium the patient would probably
be restored TO health. The drug keeps the
| disease as it was when the opium was first
administered, and the patient gradually be.
comes more and more weak and PROSTATE
Nine out of ten of those cases are cureable
as the system will soon recupsrate wher
the opium is withdrawn. That class o.
cases is considered more hopeless thar
they really are, because the persons art
prematurely old and enteebled by the drug
THE EFFECT OPIUM HAS.
The effect of opium upon the system il
this:
First-It Is highly stimulating, until the
system becomes accustomed TO its use. II
closes the secretions, retsrds free circu-
ation, or exhilerates the flow unnaturally
1t creates morbid condition of the nutri
tive functions, preventing the proper as
Imitation OF food, enfeebllng and debiht
making 1t IT'D NIT Of Bic the system
maintaln Its primitive ylsor OF lie.
| EDGAR PoE'S OPIUM EATING.
Edgar A. Poe, the brilliant eesayist an,
poet, Tell victim 10 the alluring drug
During the last years OF his lite he wonlC
sort " opium IN trying TO deaden the re
morse OF conscience lie would suffer alter 4
nea,y drinking spree. lie WAS On bis way
10 Virginia once TO marry beautiful. &C
compished young lady, and wbil travel
ing lel into his Old habit OF drinking, and
II Is supposed while in that condition, IN
taking his opium, he took an overdose. lie
was found early one morning on bench
attached TO wharf in Baltimore, ana wa,
sent Mt once to hospital, where he was re.
cognized, and the best VI care and atten
ton given him. Though the fearful expos.
ure he had suffered he rallied but once uur.
ing the night, and died the terrible death oil
an opium eater. The pages OF history re.
| veal tale OF VICE., sorrow and neral de.
graduation caused by the drug that IL, per.
haps, unparalleled.