St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-01

screamed like maniac at one moment,
and at the next begged like suffering
child. AT last the sergeant concluded
that the man actually. needed it, and
sent him small quantity, which salts
fed him, and he wentto sleep for the
night.
SOME SINGULAR. CASES.
There is a very hearty, healthy iEdi-
vidual. however, who makes light OF
the use OF morphiue. lie buys half
pound four times a year, and half
pound is 3,S40 grains. 1t Only takes
from two to four grains to kill q man
who Is not used to it, yet this one uses
3,S4O grains every ninety days, or about
forty-three grains Il day, and as he
swallows one of his enormous doses he
will: 'Pshaw! they talk about NOR
phine being injurious! Why, [ have
used it for forty years. and have never
experienced any bad effects and really
he looks as ii he had not. A young
physician, who was at one time
resident of this city, injected NOR
Prime i'm his leg, and from
the hip to the ankle there was
scarcely a spot as large as a pea which
did not bear the mark of the needle
An actress. who never plays in st. Paul
to anything hut standing room only"
injectS morphine into ner left hand,
which, pretty and SOFT as it seems to be
when seen from the seats. is marked
all over with the little white cicatriees
that show where the delicate skin has
been punctured. But she, poor thing.
is not wholly to blame, tor she is
afflicted with a majority of "all the ills
that flesh Is heir to-"
A down town druggist has peculiar
case in the person of an opiuni-eater.
A reporter was standing by the counter
talking to him or m0rphiHe and It's vic
tins the other day when boy came in
and handed INN little piece OF brown
paper carefully folded up. He unrolled
it and quarter fell out.
'HereS case now" he said, as he
went behind the case to put up the
poison, and when the boy was gone he
showed the reporter the note. 1t was
written Oh piece of brown wrapping
paper, irregularly torn, and it read
thus. 81
Please send me % cents. wefth of gum
opium. 4
Only the initials were signed. .=4
THAT man." said the druggist, "has
been buying opium from me in this way
for seven years and | have no idea who
he is. | know he's an opium eater and
there is no danger in selling it to him,
but don't know him."
How much does he getfor25 CENTS"
''Half an ounce. and. it lasts him q
day and half or two days. He eats q
heap of it, but he's been at it a long
time and he's not dead yet"
DOCTORS THE WORST. 3
But one of the Strangest facts in eeR-
nection with the use of these drugs is
that physicians are especially addicted
TO them. The proportion Of doctors
who use morphine, cocaine or opium Ill
one or the other OF its forms is much
larger than the proportion in any other
class of people, and it is asserted by
some-and inquiry did not discover any
one who would contradict the state
ment-that, in proportion, there are
more drug using physicians than there
are whisky drunkards. There are NUM-
bers of cases right here in st. Paul that
tend to establish that belief. A squib
that appeared in medical journal some
time ago has not yet been forgotten.
1t said that st. Paul physician dis
covered that morphine was an antid0te
for whisky, then he discovered that CO.
caine was an antidote for morphine, and
now he was looking for an antidote for
cocaine. One OF the most brilliant sur
geons this country ever produced, man
who, though still young, had won an in
ternational reputation, broke the whisky
habit with opium and died from the eX-
cesSive use of that drug. One of the
most learned and successful practltlon-
erS OF the city, who has not been prac-
ticing here recently, was an habitual
user of morphine. Two of the cases
mentioned above were young phySi-
clans. One was the morphine user who
or h,,b
Scription case, and the other the one
whose leg was covered with sores from
the use of hypodermic syringe, and
one Well-known doctor uses from an
ounce to an ounce and half of lauda-
mum every day, when half an ounce
would kill any one not accustomed to
the drug. But the queerest case of all
came to light the other day. -Four
young physicians were driving one
bright, sunny afternoon behind a hand
some pair of blooded bays, and they
drew up in front of drug store, whose
proprietor they all knew. The horses
were tied and they went in to get hy-
podermic injection Of cocaine, just as
they might have gone into a saloon TO
get drink. Knowing that both as
physicians and cocaine users they could
obtain the drug, the idea of its being
refused never entered their minds, and
they became jocular as they became inn
pressed with the fact that they were
going for their drug just as four old
topers would go for their drains. and,
after greeting their friend, the druggist,
one of them wrapped on the counter
and called out: druggist, oh druggist,
bring us four cocaines, please" where
upon they all laughed. Then turning
to the druggist the spokesman said;
''Old fellow, you know we all use co
cane let us have four doses, will you"