Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-02-05

him at arms length as long as one of
his patients maintains a miserable ex-
istence
The narcotics uscd for their intox-
icatinS effects are numerous, and vary
in different countries, to suit the habits
and tastes of the people. In Persia,
Hindoostan and other places, the Cam
nabis Indica, furnishes the Intoxicating
element in their beverages. In Arabia
the hashish. In Egypt opium, is the
Intoxicating agent used While In
America, they use mixture of To-
hacco, cannabis indica, strychnine.
alcohol and many other articles, all of
which are declared good medicines by
allopathy; because they all create dis
ease; and fro II that system of medicine
the people derive their knowledge and
use. The opium fcnd has the habit
fastened upon him by taking the poison
prescribed by the doctor; so of all the
other narcotics The insatiate thirst
for narcotics, alcohol not accepted, in
most cases is produced by the prescrip-
tions of physicians. In this way upon
llfes earliest dawn, to its final close in
death; individuals are subject to the
brain destroying and demoralizing
effects of narcotics. Alcohol is of
itself sufficient scourge to humanity
when taken into the body, to call forth
our deepest commiseration for its vic
TINS But when to it is added scores
of other agents in common use among
the doctors every one of which possess
a power far more potent for evil than
even alcohol; the heart sickens and we
stand aghast in the contemplation of
such harvest of death as we must of
necessity reap. This is no picture of
fancie's creation but stubborn facts;
facts, acknowledge and demonstra-
ted by all the writers OH medicine.
Take any medical author of whatever
school you please in any age or of any
country you may and you will find
that they all agree in the destructive
character and effects of narcotic poisons.
While these poisons present to the IN.
wary all the meekness and suavity of
the serpent of Eden, their effects are
often equally fatal. One author says
/ s'an excessively irritable, peeyish and
; Respondent state of mind is well
q known consequent of a single dose. .
And that "many of the suicides that
, disgrace our country are caused by the
horrible feelings produced by mercury"
3 Another author says of opium; aAn
r III conditioned state of the nervous
Z system is engendered by it, that never
through all subsequent life is got rid
Q Iof by the most strenuous endeayors.
e A tendency to insanity is produced or
3 augmented;' and then gives train of
9 terrible diseases which ale likely to fol
! low its use. Whole volumes have
!. been written BY the aRegulars, p0r-
: traying the horrible symptoms these
! narcotics produce, and the agents that
may be tried as antidotes 20 them.
Every writer who speaks Of them,
v gives pile upon pile of testimony
!. against them. The history Of their
i use is one constant round Of mental and
; physical horrors. Bones eaten into
t holes like honey comb; teeth rotting
4 away into black stumps; muscles With
IS ering like dry sticks; nerves starting
II and shaking like aspen leaves in the
e wind. Minds as imbecile as the nurs-
n ing babe; limbs racked with tile paine of
,e the inquisition. A greyions burden
o to themselves, and disgusting spec
IS tacle to those around them, until death
,e with friendlystroke puts an end to
a. their sufferings Think Of these thirgs
Of then turn to Chrisoston's treatise ON
N poisons There read the accounts oI
e. the horrible effects Of narcotics ill
,e your blood curdles. Do these things
ne and you will see clearly why it is tha,
at narcotics ruin man at the very cen
I'd ter of life and poison every stream Of
Of health and happiness that flows from
al that center. You viii see why mar
#. cotics leave virus in the system, q
en- poison in the blood drinking all th.
id springs of life until the wretched
i'd sufferer emaciated in boly, dementet
es in mind and degraded IN morals, sink
at a martyr to the poison into the cole
is embraces Of the tomb You win Sc.
20. why it is that intemperance and vic
d. is rife throughout the land and Why i
hit is that suicide and insanity is alarm
ed ingly on the increase.
am As long as allopathy is suffered
to exist and rule public opinion, 50 lon
he her physicians win continue to put j
.ry to the bodies Of men, women and CHI
m dren alcoholic and other narcotic 20
ly, sons and SO long will the people TAX
in them and use them for themselves an
we their families. And as the action
sed poisons are not accidental. they vi
,re- continue to work out their true elral
Md lof destruction in the production Of Il