The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-09-20
FATAL WORK oFOUININE.

GUS Than Optum-SttmulAtfn ONLY
to DestrOy-Nervous DEPRESSION Des-
perate and Intolerabe-VVOmen of
Fashion Victims.
On Thursday afternoon long and
magnitlcently appointed procession
started from one of the most elegant
residences on Madison aTenue, moved
slowly down the thoroughfare of fash
ION, skirted Madison Square on the
east and south, and creptwith decorous
pace down Broadway. It is long
journey to Greenwood; and, in many
particulars, a tedious onefor all save
the person principally concerned. The
deceased was man who ought still to
have been in the meridian of his
strength. Only forty-one years old,
and in opulent circumstances, no
troubles Of business had prematurely
Slapped his nervous and vital energies.
He died of no specifiable disease; but
for the last two years, as prominent
physician expressed it, had been like a
man failing of old age-feeble, decrepit,
nervous, incapable Of enduring strain
in short, an old man in all save years.
"And now my friend" said the doc
tor, as he walked down the avenue with
the Mercury reporter, ''you have seen
the end OF at least one case of habit
more common by far than the habit of
morphia; more dangerous, not less rapid
and insidious in its ravageS, and quite
as difficult to break. | now speak of
the quinine habit, :" emphasized the doc
tor. You seem surprised, but [ tell
you frankly that to-day in this city the
habit of taking quinine in stimulent
doses Is rs common as that of morphia,
moro const;t,,tions Io 90. n@s sap y;
tins 70 the a;4I,a'. ~ ie Wy
,1o+,,,.ol "a ilS1,.o ~ az G.s r. suo u
destroxn5 80 i,.;II,. &c. i1ne'
Mi its connaners ~nt p toosatha, O1 +hn
alcohol bahi3 nossill5 o1-oo,,foJ
either br s,,icido ~. 10 t,,ral foii,,ro Soy
meditatsdIv hacansa IL hos bean ~
obse,.vat;o1 that no dy,o in nj tho NJ a+o-;a
mcd;ea M naIooti, ~. stir,Io - 49,, 80
ates 60 ro,,idl,1 =, +Ia rd,1at;,sI,
snic;da1 nrapd;s1os;t;or oo,,IJ 49, -
tion at iopst civ sr;c;das +hot baua oonlo
nnder NV notice dnrino ' the last C Toar
which wsra troooahIa e ,,otb;no. H. H..
To the friends and ralat;yas Is +bo
dead thew ,yera inox,i;cob1o OniN,
montb aro fr;apJ of 49,
was found deaS in bod With ronIriY
pressed closely 10 bis nost y With the the
stiffened hand and that faint necnliar
sickening smell that ali nbys;oiens are
so familiar with nervading the room,
But tbirty-five Years Of ace IN esl busi.
ness. with snIendid income and an
amiable and nrettv wife whom he de-
yotedly loved what was the cansep
What inexpIicable reason had he for
1vinU down deliberately o;nbale vanor
that he knew was deafbp For two wears
he had been addicted to the use of oni-
nine in regular doses rs q stimnlant. and
it is a pecHliar feature of that DRUG that
while It served the purpose brilliantly
for few months-a wear or more some
times-the day Inevitably comes when
it produces a depression that is intoler-
able. perfectly maddenino and desper.
ate. Whent6 crisis arrives in Che in
evitable progress of constitutional un-
dermininr. Il is totally Intellectual to
enlarge The dose. The victim NAV
sleep but gets no comfort from slumber.
Ghastly, terrible, unnatural and morbid