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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    THE OPIUM AND MORPHINE HABITS. CHAPTER I. THEIR PATHOLOGY. A higher degree of civilization, bringing with it in- creased mental development among all classes, increased cares, duties and shocks, seems to have caused the habitual use of narcotics, once a comparatively rare vice among Christian nations, to have become alarmingly common. Increase in mental strain, hot-house development of the passions, lessened physical labor and increased mental work, have been gradually giving us bodies in which the nervous element largely preponderates. Persons who may be classed under the head of nervous temperament are daily on the increase. Diseases are to-day as different from diseases of a century ago as is their treatment. While* the average individual now does more mental work in an hour than did our an- cestors in six hours, we are not one-sixth as well able to bear the intellectual strain as they were. Nine-tenths of us neither eat, sleep, exercise, bathe, or procreate in a proper way. It is all hurry and turmoil; little rest and much care. Generation by generation our physical natures are changing, and in the children of each succeeding generation we see the preponderance of the