Word: morphia
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...took the stand to answer the questions of the prosecutor, Harley Street's distinguished Dr. Arthur Henry Douthwaite, British authority on morphia and heroin, seemed utterly free of doubt. "The only conclusion I can come to," he told the court confidently in connection with the dosage given Mrs. Morrell, "is the intention was to terminate her life." But in crossexamination, Defense Counsel Lawrence had a question: In treating a patient already addicted to drugs, would not a doctor have to face two alternatives, the first of which would be to stop the drugs? "Yes," said Dr. Douthwaite...
...part of your case," said Barrister Lawrence, "that stopping a drug like morphia or heroin will cause illness and suffering?" "Yes," said the doctor...
...Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, prepared by a committee chairmanned by British Laborite Lord Marley, appears a photostatic copy of a certificate signed by Stockholm's Police Doctor Karl Lundberg on April 16, 1926: "Captain Göring is a morphia addict and his wife Frau Carin Göring, nee Baroness Fock, suffers from epilepsy. Their home must therefore be regarded as unfitted for her son Thomas...
...actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot; Jeb Stuart decorated with a rose, wound in a yellow silk...
...phanie of Belgium) reacted to her husband's infatuation for the Baroness Vetschera with such violence that she hurled, from time to time, numerous articles of bric-à-brac at him-a fact incontestably proved. He, vexed, indulged himself the more riotously, inhaled ether and took morphia when he found that champagne had no more effect upon him. At last the Archduchess persuaded the Emperor Franz Josef to command her husband to break with the Baroness Vetschera. Moody, the Archduke departed for Mayerling, driven by his favorite coachman, one Bratfisch ("Fried Fish...