find them unprepared.

Dr. Crothers, who has perhaps made more of a study of the evil results
of drug taking than any other man in America, says of this:--

"Morphine as a common remedy, taken for pains and aches, may
suddenly develop into an incurable craze for its continuous use.
* * * The early relief which morphine brings to the sufferer is
often the beginning of an unknown journey ending in disease and
death."

Cases are on record where morphine given to mothers soon after the birth
of children to allay pain, has resulted in the death of the infant, the
morphine having poisoned the milk.

Cocaine is possibly the most insidious of all drugs yet known. Few of
those who become enslaved to it ever are able to lay it aside. It leads
to hallucinations of sight and hearing. Many persons have become
enslaved to cocaine unwittingly through its use in catarrh snuffs,
asthma "cures," and other proprietary preparations, the composition of
which was secret. Some states now have strict laws regulating the sale
of this dangerous drug.

It is not only the enslaving drugs which are injurious to the body, but
even such apparently simple agents as liver pills and pills for the
relief of constipation may do more harm than good if resorted to
frequently. Some of the ingredients used in the pills for the relief of
constipation are said to be injurious to the liver.

Dr. Nathan S. Davis, late dean of the Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago, said of the coal-tar remedies, such as phenacetin and
antipyrin, in the treatment of influenza and _la grippe_:--"While each
dose temporarily reduces the fever it retards the most important
physiological processes on which the living system depends for resisting
the effects of toxic agents, namely, oxidation and elimination. This not
only encourages the retention of poisonous agents by which fevers are
protracted, but it greatly increases the number of cases of pneumonia
that complicate _la grippe_. The bad work that people make in dosing
themselves with patent medicines is not infrequently punctuated with a
sudden death from overdosing with antipyrin, sulphonal, or some other
coal-tar preparation."

Deaths from acetanilid are becoming more and more frequent. The presence
of acetanilid in headache powders "guaranteed to be harmless" and thrown
upon the door-steps as samples has led many persons into grave danger,
and not a few to death. Bromo-Seltzer, Orangeine