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Credit: On the cure of the morphia habit / by Oscar Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![but he was enthusiastic in praise of the nitrite of amy], which he had constantly carried in his pocket, and which had arrested the craving whenever he had resorted to it. This case shows that a cure may be obtained under methodical treatment, without seclusion and with imperfect surveillance, but successes of the kind are rare, and can only be hoped for in mild cases, and where there have not been any previous failures. A medical man, aged 32, was brought to me by his cousin, a well-known alienest. The habit had originated in family annoyances, and was of two years' standing. I transcribe the progression from beginning to end, in order that it may serve as a model for others as regards the mechanism of the reduction. He was taking at the time sixty centi- grammes a day, which was rapidly reduced to 40 taken in 4 doses. From 40 to 24 the decrease was at the rate of 4 centigrammes a day, from 24 to 16 it was 2 daily, from 16 to 8, i. From 8 to 6 the decrease was at the rate of i daily with an allow- ance of 2 by the rectum for every one suppressed hypodermically. As soon as o by hypodermic 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060903_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
