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Mr.  Campbell  stated  that  he  had  never  sold  morphine  to  habitues, 
and  that  he  had  had  no  opportunity  of  ascertaining  the  amount  of 
the  drug  used  by  them.  He  was  of  the  opinion  that  there  would  be 
no  difficulty  in  getting  the  Pennsylvania  State  Legislature  to  pass  a 
law  regulating  the  sale  of  morphine  and  codeine  so  long  as  it  did 
not  apply  to  household  remedies  containing  them,  for  immediately 
the  question  would  arise  as  to  what  the  people  in  the  outlying  dis- 
tricts would  do.  Mr.  Campbell  felt  that  there  were  a  good  many 
loopholes  and  "  good  faiths  "  in  the  Massachusetts  law,  and  thought 
that  the  proposed  Pennsylvania  draft  should  not  have  these. 
Mr.  Osterlund  coincided  with  this  latter  view,  and  stated  that 
having  been  acting  as  a  juror  recently,  he  found  that  lawyers  have 
no  trouble  in  getting  around  the  "  good  faith  "  clauses.  He  stated 
that  the  laws  in  the  western  states  appeared  to  have  fewer  of  these. 
Dr.  Lowe  spoke  of  one  drug  store  where  a  profit  of  $60  a  day 
was  made  from  the  sale  of  cocaine.  He  discussed  the  treatment  of 
habitues,  and  said  that  one  could  hardly  imagine  the  tortures  of 
habitues  when  deprived  of  the  drug,  and  referred  to  one  case  where 
13  grains  were  taken  at  a  dose  and  another  instance  where  the  daily 
dose  was  Yz  ounce. 
Dr.  Weidemann  said  that  he  favored  one  feature  of  the  proposed 
antinarcotic  law,  which  Mr.  Walton  mentioned,  namely,  the  drafting 
of  the  law  in  such  a  manner  as  to  take  into  consideration  the  ques- 
tion of  habitues.  In  this  connection  he  mentioned  the  case  of  a 
dressmaker  who  he  said  had  taken  2  fluidounces  of  the  tincture  of 
opium  every  day  for  the  past  forty  years,  and  he  felt  that  it  would 
be  wrong  to  deprive  such  an  one  of  the  drug.  On  the  other  hand,  he 
said  that  something  should  be  done,  and  that  it  was  better  to  take 
measures  to  prevent  the  formation  of  the  habit  than  to  try  to  cure 
habitues. 
Mr.  Walton  remarked  at  this  point,  that  while  the  Massachusetts 
law  has  too  many  loopholes,  it  is  still  an  example  of  what  can  be 
done.  He  said  that  there  is  only  one  way  to  accomplish  the  end 
sought,  and  that  is  by  restricting  the  sale  of  morphine  and  this  class 
of  drugs  to  prescriptions,  and  then  asked  if  any  of  those  present 
thought  that  this  could  be  accomplished. 
Mr.  Heffner  spoke  of  the  case  of  a  young  girl  who  used  a  pint 
of  laudanum  a  week,  and  stated  that  she  had  recently  been  taken 
to  a  hospital  for  treatment  by  the  administration  of  gradually  de- 
creasing doses  of  the  drug,  and  that  the  result  would  be  reported. 
