| The Opium Habit Contributor(s): Day, Horace B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162703873 ISBN-13: 9781162703879 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Medical | Neurology - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: 616.863 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.87 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To the opium-consumer, when deprived of this stimulant, there is nothing that life can bestow, not a blessing that man can receive, which would not come to him unheeded, undesired, and be a curse to him. There is but one all-absorbing want, one engrossing desire--his whole being has but one tongue--that tongue syllables but one word-- morphia. And oh the vain, vain attempt to break this bondage, the labor worse than useless--a minnow struggling to break the toils that bind a Triton |
