The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-10

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leave the empty walls to be refiiled fol
the next day. At night. at home. they
have big bottles to draw from if they
want to keep up their stimulation
The only chloroform I have sold
without a prescription has been
TO poung woman who, I think.
is an actress. She has very pretty
little feet, and to show them off wears
painfully tight shoes. To lull the pain
when she puts on new shoes or when
her feet swell. she rushes in here, buys
an ounce of chloroform. and pours half
OF it into each shoe. Then she goes out
as springer and chipI er as you please.
One time she used two ounces. That
time her shoes must have hurt her ex-
! ira bad"
The mention of the opium smokers
by the preceding druggist suggested the
inquiry of an exceptionally cleyer liter
| airy man, who was casually met one
day at Yuet Sings store, whether the
breaking up of the joints had dimin-
| ished opium smoking in New YORK %
Not at all, he replied; there is more
OF 1t now than ever before. It is simply
| carried on with more secrecy. that is
all, The pale faced barbarian has not
| the ghost of show to run
OA1A OdAHdLuhu III IlS way. Inc MOI
col is too cunning. If he wants to
smoke opium, be will smoke opium,
and the only way to stop him is to kill
him. BUTT is by no means Cinnamon
alone who hit the pipe.' There are
more Mclean men and women ia
New York addicted to the habit than
there are Cinnamon who practice it,
and they are by no means the offscour-
ings of society quote the pet phrase
OF the people who want every body else
to live in their way. Very respectable
men. yes, and women, too, smoke
opium. And the Joints are not closed !
Those known to the police are, it is
true, but l, who am recognized as one
who occasionally hit the pipe and can
be trusted, conld show you a dozen
places where you might smoke the
wad of oriental delight IN any degree of
style you pleased. 1 maintain that
opium smoking, in reasonable mod
Grafton, is It hurtful, II
know men who sn twenty or thirty
pipes a day, and inc practice never
clouds their intellect, affects their
health or lnterferes with their business.
Since 1t has become questionable to
get drunk on wine or good liquor-as
excellent gentlemen used to do in the
olden time, without let or hindrance-
men have taken to a bewildering as
sortment of stimulatiye and intoxicant
drugs. and / honestly believe that the
least hurtfui habit that replaces the
tankard is opium smoking
A German druggist, who developed in
conversation a conscientiousnes all
most as big as his ears or his feet, would
not ieven talk about the use of drugs
otherwise than by prescription. lest be
might be violating the law. He knew
nothing about such things, he said,
and was scandalized and horri-
lied beyond measure when the writer
asked him for some '1.20 grain
strychnia pellets All he could
stammer IN reply was: go owit! Go
owitl" Another German druggist put
upon an ounce vial of dilute nitro
muriatic acid" startling label of a
deaths head and cross bones over the
word, in glazing red letters. Poison"
and when asked if he woulj kindly
place similar decoration upon an
ounce OF "pulverized magnesia," simply
giared in speechless repro baton of his |
customers levity. There seems to be |
little fear of the Teutonic apothecaries
panderlug to the vices OF the habituai |
drug takers.
One of he house physicians of the
New York Hospital, DIR. Martin, |
says that there were few cases
brought there for treatment that
would afford any fair indication of the |
extent 20 which pernicious drugs were |
habitually used, excepting the marks |
made by the hypOdermic needle. Very |
many legs and arms were dotted with |
the little Jumps that evidenced the fire. |
quent subcutaneOus injection of NOR
phine. Generally patients so marked |
volunteered assurances that they had |
used the morphine under physicians |
directions, bur their saying SO Guild |
hardly b. deemed good evidence, under |
the circumstances, that t w&s true. |
Patients were brought there not for the |
breaking up OF drug taking habits, but |
for relief from suicidal doses of poisous, |
taken either accidentally or inten-
tionally. For instance, young woman |
was recently brought in who was al
most dead from an overdose of hydrate |
of ohloral, drug which she had long
been in the habit OF taking. Her heart
was gradually stopping its action. They |
tossed into her enough strychnia and |
dlgltals to brace up the failing |
anu dllcT u lew nOurS MAD
the satisfaction of knowing that her
life was saved-for that time at least.
So far as he had heard, the cocaine
habit had fixed itself upon none bur
physicians, who had begun its use in
an experimental way and could not
break it off, but he did not believe that
it made one victim where morphine
made ten.
One of the house physicians of
Bellevue Hospital, DR.. Conkley, said
much as DR.. Martin had. that in view
of the fact that only extreme cases of
drug excuses, in exceptional instances,
were brought there for treatment, not
much valuable information could be
accorded from that standpoint as to
the popular use Of deleterious drugs.
He did know of some cases, however. |
There was one last summer of al
doctor in the institution addicted to
morphine who married one of the
nurses and indicted her into the habit.
She, when she got going at it, was
even worse slave to it than
he was, consuming as much |
as five grains per diem. He
went insane, was sent to the Island, and
subsequently was removed, a hopeless
lunatic. to the State asylum. She, too,
was Frustrated, but after six weeks of 4
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