Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-22
BRAOING UP WITH POIsONs.
Habits which Bring Ill. Health and Death
90 Women.

Detroit TriDuno,
"rwo drachms of morphine, please,'
said tall brunette to the Woodward
avenue druggist, Mr.. A. Bassett, Satur-
day.
"Who Is II for--yourself2"
''No; it's for a lady friend who is at our
house on visit"
"Always for some one else," remarked
Mr.. Bassett some moments later when
the young lady had quilted the store.
"They never want 1t for themselves
Poor fools, wonder II they really think
they deceive anybody"
"ls morphine used very much as bev-
erage, so to speak,"
at is not only used very largely but is
use Is constantly increasing. When l am
firmly convinced a person wishes II for
It's intoxicating effect | always warn
them, and hardly day passes but that
refuse to sell III but IL never does any
good. There Is some chance Of whisky
drunkard reforming, but morphine or
opium sot never. One woman has bought
opium OF me for ten years. She Is a
perfect sot, worse than any liquor sot
you ever saw. have many such ousto-
mers. | sell 1t because they will have 1t
somehow. One lady Of high social stand
ing, who died recently, used TO take 100
grains every twenty-four hours. She
transmitted the habit TO her two dAugh-
ters-elegant young ladles-and only a
short time ago one OF them was picked
up by the police from the steps Of syna-
gogue, total wreck In mind and body.
she was sent to the Pontiac Insane
Asy lum, but soon after returned and
she and her sister kept gong lower and
lower until they were the vilest drabs
that walked the streets. Vast quantities
OF gum opium ure used also. / find very
little call Tor chlorolorm, though II is
used TO some extent, but laudanum Is In
large demand. The other nervlnes or
opiates don't amount 10 much | have
been in business twenty years and never
had regular customer for arsenic. The
stories about It's habitual use are chin
erical, or largely So"
Mr.. Milburn Of Milburn williamson
SAID 1--WE don't have any regular Gus.
toners for arsenic, and In the twenty
six years have been IN business | don't
recall single person who used the drug
habitually. But the use OF morphine Is
growing alarmingly, City people
mostly make use Of morphine,
as II does not favor the
breath, while outsiders use the gum,
which can easily be detected in the
breath OF course II Is the upper class
who use morphine; poor people cannot
afford 1t. have seen many sad sights
! from Its use--in fact hardly day passes
/ that some lamentable spectacle is not
presented. The chloroiorm habit Is grow
| ing also. Ii Is carried in bottle Ia the
pocket, or In the handbag, and
! -. L..
hailed The use OF choral hydrate
is Increasing as well but the most seri-
Gus thing IL cocaine II was introduced
and prescribed by physicians for catarrh,
which IL largely prevalent In all lake
shore districts, and from that It's use has
been taken up as an intoxicant II Is a
terrible thing. Morphine can be taken for
thirty years without causing death, but
the cocaine victim rarely lasts beyond a
year"
The Central drug store, at No. 1855
Woodward avenue, confirmed the above
statements, especially as TO the rapid
/ increase In the use OF chloroiorm.
/ A prominent physician said regarding
4 polsons In general "Arsenlc is taken
by few misguided women 10 beautify
the complexion. II does clear the skin
somewhat for few years, seeming 10
neu,rallze the oxidation OF the
blood. The red coloring matter is thus
bleached, and the complexion given q
puffy, waxy-white appearance, but the
time comes when the toxic effect fails
and then unsigbtly blotches appear, the
Kin turns yellow ana OF dirty color and
becomes wrinkled and iiabby. Bellsdonna
Is taken because II causes relaxation Of
all the circular muscles. The iris OF the
| eye is circulon muscle, and belladonna
causes II 70 recede, thus exposing more
Of the pupil and apparently Frightening
the eye.
"Arsenic Is mechanical poison, II
burns through the stomach like hot lead,
producing commissions and death. Prus-
sic acid Cyanide Of potassium is sub
tie poison, going at once 70 the heart ard
producing paralysis Of that organ. Otiiei
! poisons, like opium suspend respiration