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The text analyzes the formation, clinical features, and management of dependence on opiates, chloral, and hashish, combining statistical evidence, case observations, and literature review. It describes preparations and methods of administration, classifies symptoms and complications—especially those from subcutaneous morphine use—and outlines therapeutic approaches and specific agents for withdrawal and recovery. Separate chapters discuss chloral's physiological effects and abstinence syndromes and summarize the rarer hashish habit. Underlying causes, social trends, and the medical community's role in propagating or treating these habits are considered throughout.

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Title: Drugs that enslave

The opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habits

Author: H. H. Kane

Release date: May 8, 2023 [eBook #70723]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Presley Blakiston, 1881

Credits: deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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LAOCOÖN.

“Ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos,
Clamores simul horrendos ad sidera tollit.”
Virgil, Æneid, Lib. 11.
The knotted coils he strains to tear apart,
Filling the air and heaven with horrid cries.

Drugs That Enslave.

THE
OPIUM, MORPHINE,
CHLORAL AND HASHISCH HABITS.

BY H. H. KANE, M. D.,
NEW YORK CITY.

“They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.”—Isaiah.

“What warre so cruelle, and what siege so sore,
To bring the sowle into captivitie,
As that fierce appetite doth fain supplie!”

PHILADELPHIA:
PRESLEY BLAKISTON,
1012 WALNUT STREET.
1881.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by
PRESLEY BLAKISTON,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

Press of WM. F. FELL & CO.,
1220-1224 Sausom Street.

To

Dr. Alexander J. C. Skene,

Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and the
Diseases of Children, in the
Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.,

THIS LITTLE WORK IS DEDICATED,

as a mark of the high esteem,
both as regards his scientific attainments,
untiring energy, and the largeness of his heart, in which he is
held by
his old pupil and sincere admirer,

THE AUTHOR.