more readily absorbed than
large doses. Habitues always use weak solutions, the effects
being more pleasing with less excitation. Morphine and alcoholic
inebriates very soon acquire certain tolerance to large doses
taken at once. The cocaine user takes large quantities, but in
small doses frequently repeated. He becomes frightened at the
effects of large doses, and when he cannot get the effects from
small (to him safe) doses, he resorts to alcohol, morphine, or
chloral. In many cases memories of the delusions and
hallucinations are so vivid and distressing that other narcotics
are used to prevent their recurrence. In other cases the
recollection is very confused and vague, and strong suspicions
fill the mind that the real condition is grossly exaggerated by
the friends for some deterring effect. In common with opium and
alcoholics, there is moral paralysis, untruthfulness, and low
cunning in order to conceal and explain the condition by other
than the real causes."

Hoffman Drops are used considerably as a heart stimulant. They are much
more intoxicating than whisky, and, used as a beverage, make the drinker
crazy while under their influence. According to Dr. F. E. Jones, of
Mass. Board of Health, they consist of 325 parts ether, 650 parts
alcohol, and 25 parts ether oil. They are said to have a very bad effect
upon the kidneys.

_The Banner of Gold_ for Oct., 1898, contained a lengthy article upon
the dangers of drugging, from which an extract is given here:--

"Philanthropists, when trying to stay the hand of rum, do not
overlook the victims of drugs. If you will go, under the
protecting aegis of an officer, to an opium den, such as are to
be found in every large city, and as a visitor view for yourself
the degradation of hopeless opium users, then train your
batteries towards removal of the cause. Do not depend upon
preaching, or the writing of essays, or the delivery of an
address before some society whose mission ends in telling others
what to do, but put on the armor of earnestness, go into the
nursery, and demand of the mother to know why, when little lumps
of human clay are placed in her keeping for the sacred purpose
of moulding them into men and women, she deliberately feeds the
prattling babe with soothing syrups, sleeping drops, paregoric,
and opiates in various other forms, rather th