The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-10-27
MANY INTOXICANTS.
MR., JOHNSON, WHO TRAVELS, FREE
" DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT.

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He Occasionally Induiges In Hasheesh
Himself = How an Opium Habitue Was
Cured Etheric IA n Substitute For Al
eohoiIe EShiiaration.
Johnson travels for II New York
state wine and brandy producing firm
and is veritablo mine of information
concerning wines and spirits alcohol
percentages, bouquets, methods and
processes OF refining and aging" wines,
and besides is a connoisseur of no mean
quality in everything drinkable. No
one ever saw him drink moro of any al
coholic liquor than the half dozen drops
ho sips before passing n wonderfully
near infalliblo verdict on sample. New
ertheless johnson remarked ono day to
friend that he took an occasional
spree. mot an alcoholic drunk, ho
explained, "but n hasheesh vision"
'Hasheesh!" exclaimed tho other
why I've always regarded that us
moro dreadful than spirits.
Perhaps it is, replied johnson. az
don advise any one to use it. But in
parts of Europe and in all oriental coun-
tries many persons use hasheesh as do.
The effect of the drug taken in the
larger quantity is To stimulate the i'm.
agination. II seems to release tho soul
from the body s bonds, Fatigue, depros-
sion, mental WEAKNESS, business cares,
all harassments, in fact, arc thrown Off,
and the mind revels in an abnormal and
pleasurablo superactivity | never expe-
rienced any unpleasant reaction.
persons of different Compartments
aro affected in different ways l knew
man who wanted to try dose of
hashecsh with me. IIo had most un-
pleasant timo of it. lIo said that his
mental sufferings wero indosoribablo,
fear, or rather apprehension, of some
thing mysterious and moro grewsome
than all tho ghost stories ever told rolled
into ono awful horror expressing him
throughout tho short time that ho was
under the spell of tho hemp. He never
will try it again, for which am glad,
for he might get into the habit of it,
Johnson's business takes him among
pharmacists good deal, and by way of
adding to his disclaimer of bong n
hashecsh slave he remarked that every
druggist has among his customers ono
or moro opium "iionds" who do not
feel tho bondage of the drug, although
they are enslaved Il saw clerk MAX
ing 100 small powders of morphine ono
day, said johnson, "and | asked him
why he was putting up so many The
clerk replied that he put up that mum.
Der every Thursday fer II certain lady
ON renewal of II physician's prcscrip-
ton. The physician had authorized tho
renewal, and tho patient had been talk
ing the morphia for several years in tho
same quantity The habit probably
grew out of the drug having been pre-
seribed originally for the relief Of somo
obstinate pain. The patient only knew
! Tint TIM powders kept nor pain away.
This aamo drug clerk also told of
tho successful cure of n sufferer from
the opium habit, another lady who re-
allied her situation and longCd TO bo
free. SEo went TO 1.-Two at her physicians
house. She had been drinking SO much
laudanum day. The doctor began by
allowing her the equivalent in NOR
phino in capsules, taken Mt the hours at
which she hud been accustomed to talso
tho liquid lIo kept her on nourishing
and stimulating diet and very gradual
ly, without the patients knowledge,
reduced the size Of the doses of morphia.
"Aftcr time he substituted for ono Of
the morphine capsules daily ono of tho
same appearance, filled with cinchoni-
dia, an alkaloid of Peruvian bark like
quinine, but weaker Tho patient did
not feel tho difference. Another cincho-
india capsule was substituted daily aft
er another week or two, and 80 on, until
after some months the habituo was tax
ing nothing but cinchonidia one day,
with, perhaps two morphine doses the
next. AS gradually as before these
were eliminated, and tho patient was
told one day that sho had had no NOR.
phia for month. She was surprised
and incredulous, but she at last real
lied that she was cured / don't know
that every ono could be freed from tho
opium habit in that manner
Tho druggists clerk told mo of IL
fellow employee OF his who had pas.
sion for ether He had found him sov-
eral times asleep or DOING in II heap Of
excelsior packing IN the cellar, and at
last discovered that the young man had
been stealing ether He would saturato
sponge, put it into a pasteboard cone.
hold it over his nose, and thus anns-
thetizo himself You know that tho
sensation of passing under the influence
Of ether is very pleasant II il akin to
the exhilaration Of alcohol Tho patient
about to Do operated upon is in state
Of high spirits, no matter how great his
anxictics may be, MS soon as the ether
has begun to intoxieate him
But in ono part Of Ireland, where
the making Of 'potheen' has been
squelched by the excise, the simple ma
tiYes have taken to using cthcr-a prod
uct not extensively purified like that
used by surgeons. Only instead Of in
haling it they drink it, IL induces ex-
tremo exhilaration, then sleep, and tho
drunkard awakes with Il headache. n
sick stomach and an unpleasant, sweet
taste in the mouth, just as the surgeons
patient does. The ether drinking makes
u man noisy and quarrelsomo and reck-
less while its exhilarating effect lasts
and is Ia other ways far worse than
whisky. A man may be- drunk and So
Der again in 3 minutes. The local eler-
gy arc very bitter against tho cxciscmen
for driving out the comparatively harm
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