Drugs that enslave : The opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habits / By H.H. Kane.

  • Kane, H. H. (Harry Hubbell), 1854-
Date:
1881
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Credit: Drugs that enslave : The opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habits / By H.H. Kane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    or caused him to be careless or negligent of his home rela- tions, has led to the business failure, or the sundering of family ties. The majority of patients come from the middle classes, those people who are continually toiling and worrying in the almost ceaseless endeavor to keep up appearances. The fact that most opium eaters are married, widow or widower, is probably explainable on the ground that in the majority of instances, the patients among whom it is most common are at just the age when marriage has taken place. In some the habit is contracted before, in others after marriage. I knew of one example where the wife, a young woman of eighteen, contracted the habit of using the drug subcu- taneously, through the carelessness of her physician. The husband began then to use it himself, and to-day the two are separated, the wife partially insane, the husband a con- firmed habituS and also an alcoholic drunkard. One who sees much of this disease meets with some very sad cases.