...hours, and lasts four or five : the dose varies from three grains to a drachm. * * * The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement...necks and contracted fingers ; but still they cannot abandon the custom: they are miserable till the hour arrives for taking their daily dose. — Madden's...

...Encyclopedia, p. 461. " ' Their gestures were frightful : those who were completely under flip citement, is terrible : the appetite is soon destroyed, every...necks and contracted fingers ; but still they cannot abandon the custom : they are miserable till the hour arrives for taking their daily dose.' — MAUDEN'S...

...hours, and lasts four or five : the dose varies from three grains to a drachm. * * * The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement...these I have seen, in this place, at various times who'had wry necks and contracted fingers ; but still they cannot abandon the custom: they are miserable...

...commences the practice early. The debility, both moral and phy si- j cal, attendant on its excitement, is i terrible; the appetite is soon destroyed, every fibre...become affected, and the muscles get rigid. Several of those I have seen in this place, at various times, hod wry necks and contracted fingers ; but still...

...countenance is fearfully •wild. The physical debility which results from thn excitement is awful. The appetite is soon destroyed, every fibre in the...trembles, the nerves of the neck become affected, the muscles get rigid, the digestive organs are rapidly impaired, the frame becomes emaciated, the...

...his countenance is fearfully wild. The physical debility which results from the excitement is awful. The appetite is soon destroyed, every fibre in the...trembles, the nerves of the neck become affected, the muscles get rigid, the digestive organs are rapidly impaired, the frame becomes emaciated, the...

...produced in two honre, and lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grams to a drachm. The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible; the appetite is soon destroyed, and every fibre in the body trembles; the nerves of the neck become affected and the muscles get rigid:...

...collected together : — " The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on the excitement, (of opium,) is terrible ; the appetite is soon destroyed, every...the neck become affected, and the muscles get rigid : but still they cannot abandon the custom ; they are miserable till the hour arrives for taking their...

...collected together : — " The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on the excitement, (of opium,) is terrible ; the appetite is soon destroyed, every...the neck become affected, and the muscles get rigid : but still they cannot abandon the custom ; they are miserable till the hour arrives for taking their...

...together : — " The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on the excitement, (of opium,) ii terrible ; the appetite is soon destroyed, every fibre...the neck become affected, and the muscles get rigid : but still they cannot abandon the custom ; they are miserable till the hour arrives for taking their...