 ... having previously calculated the time when each envelope shall be unfolded, and allow the pill to produce the effects of their usual allowance. When this baneful habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off; the torments of...  The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ... - Page 1801838Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...the most dreadful tortures, as during the whole of that month they are not allowed to take anything during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings,...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax.'— (Dr. Oppenheim's... | |
 | 1837 - 592 pages
...the age of forty, if they have begun to use opium at an early age. The fasts in the montli of Kamasan are for them fraught with the most dreadful tortures,...his bliss is complete when he has taken it; to him night,brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise. Those who do make the attempt to discontinue... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 1046 pages
...the most dreadful tortures, as during the whole of that month they are not allowed to take anything during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings,...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax.' — (Dr. Oppenheim's... | |
 | 1840 - 540 pages
...during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings, they swallow, before the morning pra\er, besides the usual dose, a certain number of other...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax."—(Dr. Oppenheim's... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off; the torments of the opium-cater, when deprived of this stimulant, are as dreadful as...it ; to him night brings the torments of hell, day (he bliss of paradise. Those who do make the attempt to discontinue the use of opium, usually mix it... | |
 | Scotland - 1853 - 848 pages
...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it oil'. His torments when deprived of the stimulant are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise ; and after long indulgence, he becomes... | |
 | James Finlay Weir Johnston - Chemistry, Technical - 1854 - 676 pages
...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off. His torments, when deprived of the stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise ; and after long indulgence, he becomes... | |
 | 1855 - 692 pages
...torments of the opium-eater, when deprived of this stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complcte when he has taken it; to him night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of Paradise."* The " English Opium-Eater" vividly deseribes the loss of all power of the will and of intellectual... | |
 | James Finlay Weir Johnston - Chemistry, Technical - 1855 - 388 pages
...has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break: it off. His torments, when deprived of the stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise; and after long indulgence, he becomes... | |
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