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Narcotine, and Sulphate of Morphine. 41 
viewed as a mere trade, to be followed only for the purpose of ob- 
taining a support, or as a means of acquiring wealth, but is rather 
esteemed a liberal art, which they cultivate with much more gene- 
rous and honorable motives. 
‘hot be obtained upon a healthy subject. ‘The results of my experi- 
ments upon the Sulphate of Morphine, and of my subsequent obser- 
Vations upon its operation in disease, will be subjoined to this paper 
on Narcotine, as in some instances, my descriptions of the effects of 
each, have hecessarily been comparative. 
DEFINITIONS, 
A hareotte Operation consists of four parts, stages, or degrees, viz. 
Ast. An antirritant stage, in which morbid irritability and irrita- 
Hon, and irritative action generally ;—morbid sensibility, restlessness 
and jactitation, (when connected with a non-phlogistic, or a positively 
atonic condition of the system,) are allayed ; 
n anodyne stage, in which pain, (when connected with a 
hon-phlogistic, or a positively atonic condition of the system,) is re- 
ed 5 
leved 
Sd. A soporific stage, in which sleep is produced : and 
4th. Ultimate narcosis, in which there is vertigo, headache, faint- 
common, epileptic, or tetanic,) coma, and death. I am confident, 
°m multiplied observations, that there is no sort of foundation for, 
ona; that all narcotics are necessarily stimulants. 
State of Prostration, (not exhaustion or-debility, as is commonly, 
but “troneously Supposed,) sometimes takes place, as an indirect 
effect, and rather a remote consequence, of a single dose, of certain 
Arcotics, too large for the susceptibility of the patient. This state 
tized by vertigo, nausea and vomiting on motion, and 
Che and faintness. Although these symptoms constitute a part 
what I have described as ultimate narcosis, yet ultimate narcosis 
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