“It transpired that heroin was not the miracle-cure for morphinism that some of its early boosters had supposed.”

“Her jaw had dropped, as it almost always does in advanced cases of morphinism, and her lower limbs were useless.”

“The evils of morphinism are even greater than those of alcoholism, and their transmission no less sure.”

“Some even have to be given morphine in a last-ditch attempt to cure their addiction.”

“She was given morphine and needed ventilation for her subsequent apnoea and to try to lower her pulmonary resistance to improve lung blood flow.”

“Despite high doses of intravenous morphine and ketamine, the pain was unbearable.”

“Wetterstrand, out of fourteen cases, records eleven cures of morphinomania.”

“But the patient's condition seems equally to exclude the idea of morphinomania.”

“Who had spoken lately of a morphinomaniac that carried his syringe always with him?”

“The morphinomaniac ordinarily uses relatively enormous doses.”

“The more highly intellectual a person, the more likely is he to become a morphinist when he has taken the drug for the relief of pain, and then possibly cannot stop its use.”

“It was an error of judgment which led a French court to declare valid the will of a morphinist who had committed suicide after leaving his fortune to his mistress.”

“At last, unable to bear her suffering, he and his sister Annie put an overdose of morphia in her milk.”

“Surgeons would attempt to stupefy the patient with alcohol, opium, or morphia, but with little effect.”

“To counteract intestinal discharges probably caused by the calomel, surgeons administered tannin, sulphuric acid, or morphia.”

“Morphinists can take regular meals, preferring well flavored and sour articles, such as curry, pickles, etc.”