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_ was 1-11 after eleven years of married life. “The average dose 
taken by these men was 14 grs. per diem, and the length of 
- time they had been addicted to the habit 12 years. Opium- 
eating, at any rate in Balasore, does not conduce to either 
q crime or insanity, since the inhabitants are a particularly law- 
j abiding race, aud the insanes are only 0-0069 per cent. of the 
q population.” —(Indian Medical Gazette, Vol. XII., No. 9, 
‘August’lst, 1877.) Our experience of opium-eating in India, — 
thongh not supported by statistics, leads us to form the same - 
the well-to-do and wealthy classes of the community. More 
. ecently (1881), Dr. Moore has published his experience of 
opium-eating in Rajputana, which supports strongly Richards’ 
inion. = eae sateage ea 
Opium and all its alkaloids act almost. exclusively on the 
tral neryous system, and in mammals especially on the 
in, the brain symptoms preponderating in proportion as the 
rgan is developed relatively to the other nerve centres. 
' When taken in small doses there is first a stage of excitement 
of the circulation, as evidenced by the pulse being fuller and 
nicker, and by the surface of the skin being warm and flushed. 
guor, with dryness of mouth and slight nausea. If, on the 
ther hand, he wishes to work, he can do this with increased 
nergy; or,if he desires to exert the mind, he will find 
agination more vivid, his thoughts more brilliant, and 
r of expression greater. (Christison.) With mode 
tage of excitement is short and is followed by 
m which the person can still be aroused. 
