Word: morphin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle its fur in either fright or anger; its body temperature did not react to counterbalance changes of room temperatures. The experiment thus proves surgically what pharmocologists have long known from the effects of certain drugs (atropin, nitrate, pilocarpin, morphin), what mothers have learned empirically from the rages and frights of their children...
...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
...warden had the box on his desk. He showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...
...particularly sweet food. Their skin became firm; they showed no sign of nervousness; they were declared cured, at least temporarily. Only one came back, a Negress who yearned for languor. And what, doctors wondered, will narcosan do for the shadowy, secretive regiments of U. S. addicts to opium, to morphin, to cocain...
...Morphin is an alkaloid derived from opium. Its stupefying effects are like the effects of opium, and four times as strong. A "dope" (morphin addict) quivers with hunger as the time comes for his injection. Sometimes he has a hard time finding a place to take it; he goes into a hotel washroom, a taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects...