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Credit: On the cure of the morphia habit / by Oscar Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Fig. 17.—Restoration of pulse by morphia. I then explained to him that whilst desirous of reducing the daily quantity of morphia as fast as possible, and refraining from the administration of succedanea as long as they could be dispensed with, it is never necessary to inflict the suffering corre- sponding to the first of the above tracings (Fig. 16). Such a tracing is, on the contrary, the indication for slower progress—[we had decreased from forty to eighteen centigrammes, about four grains, a little more than half the quantity taken, in eight days]— or for the administration of a heart tonic. I pre- scribed digitalis, and for the remainder of the treat- ment there was no further trouble with the heart, the following tracing being the worst I obtained : Fig. 18.—State of craving modified by administration of digitalis.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21060903_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
