Doctor Judas : a portrayal of the opium habit / by William Rosser Cobbe.

  • Cobbe, William Rosser, -1907
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Doctor Judas : a portrayal of the opium habit / by William Rosser Cobbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I DOCTOR JUDAS. CHAPTER I. IN VINCULIS TYRANNI. A sense of fancied bliss and heart-felt care, Closing at last in darkness and despair. CowPER — Hope. Inexorable duty, and that alone, has urged the writer to the painful task of recording the terrible story of a nine years' slavery to opium. Nothing can be farther from his mind than a purpose to crave sympathy ; for he, like Bunyan's Christian, has had his load removed ; the memory of it alone remains, and this no amount of pity can efface. The all-pervading law of compensation cannot be evaded by any creature of God, and my sins find their constant punishment in the remembrance of them. This record of sorrow is made that others may escape the great transgression, and that those now in the valley of the sombre shadows may find courage of hope in the wonderful deliverance of him who writes. I was born of parents whose natures were highly sensitive, both being subject to melancholy and to periodic attacks of excessive nervousness. My
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