The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-25

pie or things and not on clothes brought
clean from the laundry. How is this to
be explained? About the same time ap-
pear many other Authorizations of the op-
ucus, and, strange to say, self-suggested
Authorizations also. Night turns to day
You sit up in your room Swinging until
the morning, and then fall asleep in
coma. In my case this occurred to such
an extent that I had to engage a hospital
Warder, who came in the morning TO re-
Vive me with about ten syringes of 5 per
cent. solution, so that 1 was able to drive
not walk, fearing some one might garrote
me. Other dreadful hallucinations l had
IN thousands. all of a prosecuting char
acter, 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. Every
OBJECT seems TO become alive to stare at
you from all corners-look revolvers
knives etc, and threaten you Yet so
soon as the effect of the injection is over
you laugh at il, and produce willingly, by
new injection, the same terrors About
that time bought three ST. Bernard dogs.
thinking they would protect me- but one
night found out they We're talking about
mellow they could get rid of me-so 1
stood up and shot one of them with a re-
Volver, which ! always used to carry. I
think this was the most dreadful night of
my life-I 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 and
goraning aloud, reproachfully looking at
me, who always fancied Now comes the
moment when they will tear you to pieces.
l stood the night on the table until the
arrival of my wardman who hardly risked
to enter the room. The strangest thing,
however, in the cocaine habit is that there
seems TO be two souls in the cocainst-
one infested by the cocaine, suffering and
tortured by its effects; the other normal.
laughing at his fears and saying: What
nonsense! 1t is only an hallucination pro
duced by an injection Not frightened
enough by these experiences and escaping
from the troubles produced by his con-
duct, on the concainist goes, taking more
and more. and then enters a new kind of
Illusion, which finishes him up for the
madhouse. 1 mean the revolving, sensu-
Gus Illusions"
The afflicted physician in summarizing
the physiologic effects of the drug, saws
that the cocainst early loses all appetite
for solid food. but likes sweets. lolIies and
cakes. Upon the muscular system the
drug as is generally recognized, acts as
most powerful stimulant for either sin
gle or continued effort. Not only could he
make Ions marches without becoming
tired, but on one occasion after injection.
he says he lifted a cab with one hand on
the axle 1t increases also the number
of the respiratory and of the heart con-
fractions, as we'll as the amount of sweat :
hence the great loss of weight After
each injection the pupil dilates, but re-
mains dilated only because injections are
continued. As regards the brain, mental
processes seem quickened, but a kind of
hypnosis intervenes, so that the brain
works without, and even against, the will.
Immediately after the injection the CO.
cainist becomes excited and remains rest
less while under the influence. He likes
manual work. however trifiing, but has
neither viii nor ability for mental work.
AS to cocaine displacing hydrate of
| choral, it is only necessary to state that
the latter drug is simply narcotic, with
resulting effects in its use or abuse similar
to those resulting from the employment of
opium. Vim Mariani is a vinous decoction
of cocaine, and when used intelligentIy.
as has been practically already stated in
reference to cocoa wine, may be of ser
vice for a time as a stimuant to both the
digestion and the nervous system