Chap. X. 
EFFECTS OF OPIUM-SMOKING. 
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Opium Pipe. 
Lord Jocelyn, in his ' Campaign in China/ gives the 
following account of its effects, which he witnessed upon 
the Chinese at Singapore. " A few days of this fearful 
luxury, when taken to excess, will give a pallid and 
haggard look to the face, and a few months, or even 
weeks, will change the strong and healthy man into 
little better than an idiot skeleton. The pain they 
"suffer when deprived of the drug after long habit no 
language can explain ; and it is only when to a certain 
degree under its influence that their faculties are alive. 
In the houses devoted to their ruin, these infatuated 
people may be seen at nine o'clock in the evening in all 
the different stages ; some entering half distracted to 
feed the craving appetite they had been obliged to sub- 
due during the day ; others laughing and talking wildly 
under the effects of a first pipe ; whilst the couches 
around are filled with their different occupants, who lie 
languid with an idiot smile upon their countenance, too 
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