The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-24
MO RAJ: 49,.
Obey Your Wife, and You Can't Lose.

not think it was from a desire for soul
beams: only. Far. more imperious was
the cry Of her body for relief from a, new
and strange sort OF pain. This was the
morph1a need, ,:... - -:
When the unhappy sibyl sanderson
cried for her naorphia injection 1t was be-
cause her head seemed; wildly empty,
her nerves tortured,r her flesh and her
bones in great pain, her heart horribly
oppressed. palpitating weakly; while the
glands Of the whole body worked abomin-
ably, causing sweatings, nose-running,
tears and flow Of saliva. But above all
was the terrible sensation Of weakness
and shortness of breath.
All these were the symptoms Of the ac-
tive poisoning of the oxide of morphia
discovered by Marine of Gottingen. In
out Of the morphia to counterfeit moro
morphia; and this explains why its hab-
tues can and must increase their doses
as they go on, till they take in a single day
enough plain morphia to kill a dozen
normal persons. ~.
Again and again both Wanda de Bone
"a and Sibyl Sanderson, informed Of their
danger, sought to break the new chains
fixed on them. so little by their own fault.
At one moment both were on the point Of
entering the A. establishment at Neuilly,
where they might be ''cut down" very
gradually, aided by douches., tonics and
less dangerous hypnotics. Doctor after
doctor, not specialists Of morphine, tried
their hand at home cures"-utterly with
out result. -
. Then Sibyl Sanderson took great reso-
luton. OF her own will she placed her
self in the most ominous Of all Partisan
institutions, the s. establishment. where
one pays in advance for the whole treat
nent and signs an agreement O not to
prosecute the manageme emit for cruelty or
d5nr 10 oy' fN oS1r
money back tho you should be allowed to
quit the cure the second or third day;
and 90 to hold the establishment guilt
less, no matter. what you suffer. In a
word, it is the terrible "brusQue'' cure.
They "cut the patient OFF, in a few days,
give no relieving drugs and let the
agoniZing body strain out it's own saliva
ton in a ten days nightmare worse than
death itself. Then follows two months
weakness, such you could not imagine.
Rather than risk repetition Of the fail
ures- of the immensely slower and more
merciful system Of curing the morphia
"habit' Sibyl Sanderson went to this
honored to have such a patient, made I'M
heardof exceptions in her favor. She
was to be 'let down" as gradually as that
particular theory Of cure might permit Of.
l. All in vain. After two months of ex-
traordinary effort, In which all the rules
Of the strict an dunyieldtng house Of pain
were broken in her favor, she renowned
the treatment and, departed. : IL. II
After this the life Of Sibyl Sanderson
passed in vague hoping, regularly placid,
sometimes feverish, where planning for
the future took the place of doing. Never
did she give up hope Of being set free
from the bonds that held her. On several
occasions, in France, Switzerland and
Germany, she began easier treatments;
| but while good. their fault is to tire out
| the patience Of the subject before con-
| valescence is arrived at, SO that sliding
back to- old remedy becomes the terrible,
tho almost pardonable, temptation.
TO the specialist, perhaps. their pale
faces and contracted pupils tell their Sc
cret; but they are in every way as capa-
BILE as you or l. their minds are calm
and clear, their actions reasoned, their
souls poised in a mysterious and very per-
feet equilibrium. ~