The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-10

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 But he did his part faithfully till one day he was called suddenly to the city on business when they were at a seaside hotel. She had a little pain of some kind, called in a strange physl- elan, got a prescription and took full dose.
 The minute she had done it she per ceived its difference from what she had been taking. She was sound enough mentally then to understand the whole deception that had been practised on her.
 She packed her trunks, left in her husbands absence, and deliberately went to hotel in Saratoga. For days her family did not know where she was When at last they discovered her it was to find that the whole work was undone.
 "She never could be fooled again, and died within year, pitiful wreck. The trouble was that none of us had ever for one instant had the patients will with us. The drug had destroyed her moral nature.
 My reputation in this case brought me two others of the same kind is sue cession. The next was a young society fellow, one of the most attractive men ever saw.
 '"Tbe peculiarity of his case was that his condition was apparently perfectly normal He wo'.ld sing and play de- lightfully, entertain a house full of guests. He was the pet of the family, with the sunniest, sweetest disposition possible.
 And yet he had pawned all his sisters and his mothers jewelry. had hardly entered the house before he | took my watch away to be mended, in the politast manner possible-and pawned it.
 He would buy a box of expensive shirts and take them directly to pawnshop. He had carried off clocks and bric-a-brac to pawn. If he hadn't been watched he would have pawned | the entire contents of the house.
 And he would get away alone and drink exactly like the first one, and his brothers would have to trace him down among the Bowery dives And yet with it all he was so normal and so charming between times that he would fool everyone. +
 At times partial realization of his condition would come over him, and he would cry like child. From first to last there were sixteen doctors on that case, and it ended in nervous break down, hysteroepilepsy and death. My third fiend was a handsome, middle-aged matron who had been a good wife and mother and a splendid housekeeper. Her family adored her. Here again was a big houseful of ser wants, and she had been sending them 1 to get the stuff for her. Or she would go to Turkish baths and bribe the at- ! tendants to go out and get it for her. l Her mania was not pawning, but getting things on credit. Her husband had an account at store and she had almost ruined him before he found out what she was about. Great heaps and piles of stuffs she would buy which she never even at 1 tempted to use. He stopped the ac- count there, and then she went and opened accounts at other stores. He 1 followed her to each and stopped it, and then she would go and have fu- rious rows with the managers over it. All of which was totally foreign to her normal nature.
 | i.'"The poor man was nearly dead with the shame and anxiety of it. It turn ed him gray in a very short space of l time.
 | We played the same game in her case as we did in the first one. The difference was that when, by reducing the solution, we had got her to a point where she could listen to reason, we laid the whole matter before her and told her she could never be cured un- less she would go to a place where it
 was impossible to get the drug.
 "She brought her will to bear and
 she consented to go with me to a lonely farmhouse, miles away from a drugstore, where there was no one that could or would get her the drug. She eventually recovered entirely, and was so bitter against morphine that I be- lieve she would die in agony before she would allow 1t to be given her.
 Her moral nature had not been des-
 troyed But guess the difference was that she had different moral nature
 to start with from the other two.
 That ended my detective cases. I never would take another. It was too
 nerve racking. But if you could get all the trained nurses in New York to
 tell you what they knew you wouldn't need any more stories. ."-New York Sun. |
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