The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-04
A COCAINE FIEND.
The Terrible Sensations Of n Per
son When Addicted 70 the
Use OF the Drug.

These evils cannot be more strongly
revealed than in the experience Of an
Australian physician. he has given the
world Of medicine the benefit Of mar
ration Of what he underwent after he
had become addicted to the almost con-
slant use Of the drug. In the course
Of that confession, which he did not
hesitate to make public, he said, in de
scribing his sensations: The first
feeling a eOsainist has is an indescriba-
bic excitement to do something great;
TO leave a mark. But, alasl this dis
appears as rapidly as it came, and soon
every part Of the body seems to CRY out
for new syringe The second sensa-
tion-at first, at least, no hallucina-
TONS that his hearing is enormously
increased, so that he hears the flies
walking over the paper Very soon
every sound begins to be q remark about
himself, mostly Of q nasty kind, and he
begins TO carry on a solitary life, his
only companion being his beloved
syringe. Every passer-by seems to talk
about him. Often ana often have
stopped persons, OF ordered the police
to arrest them, thinking they were
talking about me-
After a relatively short time begins
the hunting Of the cocaine bug You
imagine that In your skin worms or
similar things are moving along. HyOu
touch them with wool ESPECIALLY alb
Eorbent WOOL they run away and disaP-
pear, only to peep cautiously out OF
some corner to see If there is any dan
ger. These worms are projected only to
the coeainist's own person or clothing.
He sees them on his washing, in his
skin, creeping along his PenhOlder, but
not on other people OF things. and not
on clothes brought clean from the laun-
dry. How IS this to be explained?
Aboutths same time appear many other
haTIucinations OF the optics, and,
strange to say, seIf-sugges halluci-
nations also. Night turns to day. You
sit up in your room Swinging until the
morning. and then fall asleep IN a coma
II. nv case this occurred to such an ex-
tent that 1 had to engage a hospital
y7arCer, who came in the morning to re-
vive me with about tea syringes Of I'VE
per cent. solution, 50 that was able TO
drive, not walk, fearing some one might
tons I had in thousands, all Of a Psrse-
cutting character, and frightening the
life out Of me so long as the effects Of
the drug lasted
you see small animals running
about your body and feel their bites
EFery object seems TO become alive TO
stare at YOU; from all corners look re
voIvers, knives, etc, and threaten you.
Yet, 50 soon as the effect of the mice
ton is ever you laugh att, and produce
willingly, by a new injection, the same
terrors. About the same time bought
three St Bernard dogs. thinking they
would protect me, but one night found
they were talking about MEOW they
could get nd Of me-so stood up and
shot one Of them with a revolver, which
1 always used to carry ] think this was
the most dreadful night Of my life
standing on the table, with an Indian
dagger and a syringe on the ground,
one three-fOot high dog going to die
and two rather dangerous dogs roaring
aad groanfng aloud, reprOaehfully look
ing at me, who always fancied: NOW
comes the moment when they WI tear
you to pieces I stood the night on the
table until the arrival Of my vvardman,
who harE5y risl1ed 10 enter the room
The strange thing, however, in the CO
caine habit IS that there seems to be
two souls IN the coeainist-0ne infested
by the cocaine, suffering and tortured
By its Effects the Other normal, laugh
ing ct his fears and saying. What non
sensei i Is onlT q Authorization pro
duced by an Injection Not frightened
enough BY fhezs experiences and eseap-
ing from the troubles prOdueed By his
conduct on the cocaiEfiEt goes, tslztng
more and more, and then enters q new
kind Of Illusion which finishes him up
for the madhoure. ~ PhiladelpEis