Word: opium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...antidotes to alkalis. When an emetic is necessary, mustard diluted in water, or luke-warm water in large quantities, should be given. Milk, olive oil and the white of eggs are useful to protect the stomach from the force of the poison. The most common narcotic poison is opium. In all cases when opium is taken, the physician, on his arrival, should be told of the amount. Many mistakes are often made from this neglect. A strong narcotic will reduce the respiration to as low as six a minute, and still the patient may live. Pain, inflicted without flinching...
...exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a ladder with bunks on a loft above, where the managing editor sleeps, and next to it is, invariably, a room fitted with an opium bunk and a lay out. Evidences of domestic life are about the place - pots, kettles and dishes taking up about as much room as the press. If an editor finds that journalism does not pay he gets a job at washing dishes or chopping wood, and he does not think...
...pain is one of our first acquisitions. For the most part this avoidance is most marked when the effect follows speedily on the cause. When there is considerable lapse of time between cause and effect, our perception of the result is not so clear. The use of alcoholic liquors, opium and tobacco are examples of this fact. We know how much the Greeks and Romans thought of exercise for promoting health. Cleanliness was a virtue well established among these nations. Lack of cleanliness is the cause of a large proportion of the deaths to-day, for we, on this continent...
Self-consciousness is peculiar to man. It results in a sense of loneliness, and in the realization of sin. It may be escaped by liquor or opium, sinking the man to the animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that...
...Secretary of the Treasury has received information that the investigation into the opium smuggling operations recently detected in San Francisco develops a scandalous conspiracy to defraud the government on the part of certain city and federal officers...