, 1885-07-22
THe DANCERS o. COCAINE.
Peculiar Effects Resulting FROM IN IL
iudlciou, Use oil the New Drag.

i"'nilAf fhr't- h-~"tttng from ~ In
iudiciou. Use oil this Sew Drag.
St Louis Globe Defnocrni.i
experiments so far have scarcely re-
moved the drug from the csalm of the
empire. trrtain results are known to
follow given doses. but the philosophy
OF It's action is almost a blank page in
The experimental note book. "A grain
IN eotei in the arm Of n man who is
cowArdly, said a physician, will make
him brave. / know one who has been
g%rioyously outraged by a business asso
ciatc He told n doctor, Il know am
n coward or | would smash that fellow
wish I had some courage. will give
you courage, the doctor said. and gave
him % grain OF cocaine. The injured
man Immediately became "A lion in dar
ing, and hrow-beat his aggressor into
making an apology.
1t has been ~conclusiyely shown that
cocaine IS the antidote for opium, and il
j, held, with slighter ground for the be
lief. that each is a counteracting agent
III the other. Many cases of opium
habit have teen treated, all yielding
readily. The number Of doses that arc
needed to cause a thorough distastc for
opium is not high. But in the cure by
this means there has been developed II
cocaine habit more violent and distress
ing than the malady displaced. This
has followed iDcautious use of the drug
in the curc of alcoholism also. 1t is a
favorite expression of DR.. Bauduy that
the opium habit is to the cocaine habit
what the acorn is to the oak, and, too
the drug is the most terrible it has been
the misfortune of man to abuse.
While a person in normal health is
eXhilarated by the use of the drug to
such an extent that natural cowardice
is supplanted by the greatest daring,
the slave 10 the drug, though previous
TO his nthrallment the bravest of men,
becomes the most arrant coward. He
will not sleep, except at long intervals,
Int never loses his appetite, eating
heartily as o as the nausea induced
by the injection passes of. No mental
faculties are clouded or dulled. but,
owing TO c treme constipation, the vic
tim is IL prey to lethargy, and will not
undertake great labor or enterprise,
become untidy in person, unclean in
thought and morally depraved.
Some victims have continued their
e~mployments, but, on account of their
aversion to action, with great diminution
OF sitcceSs. OPIUM, other narcotics and
intoxicants used to excess, cause persons
10 be ome absolutely Indifferent TO all
relations, duties and obligations: they
even become brutal or depraved as the
cocaine slaves. Besides this effect in
the examination of the SCALP OF a med
ical man, it was found that
the Use Of the drug caused u phenom-
enou never observed before as tho
result Of any ailment or drug. Bony
Jumps will form upon the scalp
which, if pressed 10y the finger, will dis
appear, leaving, where the finger
pressed. n loose scale or scab as the
only evidence OF the presence of any
thing unusual; if puncturei by n hypo-
dermie needle n small amount Of watery
substance cxudes. An effort made to
trace the contents of the lump as it dis.
appears under pressure will be as I'M
| nvalling rs the endeayor to catch the
glohnie of mercury with the thumb and
forcinger II rum along under the
seal now this way. now that, until in
au |nngunrded moment it is gone en-.
urely Rubbing these spots after the
contents have been pushed away q dry,
grating sound is distinctly heard, as il
a piece of d%essicated scalp was being
rubbed against the dry bone.