FOOTNOTES

[1] Practitioner, Vol. VI, p. 149.

[2] “The Opium Habit;” reprint from the Chicago Medical Review, October and November 5th, 1880.

[3] “The Hypodermic Injection of Morphia. Its History, Advantages and Dangers.” N. Y., 1880.

[4] “Morbid Craving for Morphia,” London, 1878.

[5] Levenstein, op. cit., p. 69.

[6] “Opium and the Opium Habit.” Philadelphia, 1871, p. 117.

[7] The Personal Experiences of an Ex-opium Habituè.—N. Y. Medical Record, p. 399, Vol. XIII.

[8] Practitioner, 1871.

[9] American Journal of Insanity, July, 1872.

[10] From the subsequent history of the patient, especially while in the asylum, we are led to believe that these attacks of delirium took place at menstrual periods.

[11] “Hypodermic Medication,” p. 96. Philadelphia, 1879.

[12] “Some Observations on the Deep Injection of Morphia.” Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, August 10th, 1878.

[13] Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner, Aug. 1877.

[14] Chicago Med. Journal and Examiner, April, 1879.

[15] Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, October 30th, 1879.

[16] “Medico-Chirurgical Society Trans.,” vol. L.

[17] “Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” Phila., 1877, p. 205.

[18] “Medico-Chirurgical Transactions,” vol. L.

[19] N. Y. Medical Record, Aug. 15th, 1874.

[20] Medical Times and Gazette, Sept. 23d, 1865.

[21] British Medical Journal, May, 1879.

[22] British Medical Journal, April 12th, 1879.

[23] Philadelphia Med. and Surg. Reporter, Oct. 18th, 1879.

[24] Med. Times and Gazette, Jan. 4th, 1868, p. 8.

[25] Medical Times and Gazette, Jan. 11th, 1868, p. 53.

[26] “The Hypodermic Method,” Philadelphia, 1879, p. 32.

[27] Edin. Med. Journal, Dec. 1876. Practitioner, 1877, p. 132.

[28] Practitioner, July, 1871, p. 25.

[29] Medical Times and Gazette, June 14th, 1865, p. 42.

[30] Italics mine.

[31] E. P. Wilson, “St. George’s Hospital Reports,” 1869.

[32] “Thèse de Paris,” N. Y. Med. Journal, Sept. 1877.

[33] Pepper, N. Y. Medical Record, Nov. 16th, 1878. H. H. Smith, Ibid. Joseph H. Howe, Ibid., Dec. 7th, 1878, and Jan. 4th, 1879. J. S. Prout, Ibid., May 11th, 1878.

[34] “The Intravenous Injection of Ammonia,” N. Y. Medical Record, June, 1879.

[35] “Medico-Chirurg. Transactions,” vol. L., p. 570.

[36] New York Medical Gazette, Jan. 10th, 1880.

[37] “The Hypodermic Injection of Morphia; its History, Advantages and Dangers,” N. Y., 1880.

[38] Medical Press and Circular, Nov. 29th, 1876.

[39] In my chapter on “The Morphia Habit,” I shall show that much larger amounts have been used, and for long periods.

[40] “Morbid Craving for Morphia.” London, 1880.

[41] (N. Y. Med. Record), Southern Med. Record, Sept. 20th, 1879.

[42] (Atlanta Medical Journal) Physicians’ Monitor, 1878.

[43] H. C. Wood; “Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” p. 440. Phila., 1877.

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Ft. pil. No. 60.

Sig.—Two, night and morning.

[44] “The Hypodermic Method,” etc., p. 90.

[45] N. Y. Medical Record, 1876, p. 436.

[46] By letter.

[47] April 14th, 1877.

[48] Lancet, Dec. 18, 1875.

[49] Letter.

[50] Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, Nov. 9, 1878.

[51] Ibid.

[52] Ibid.

[53] American Journal of Insanity, 1878, p. 367.

[54] New York Medical Record, 1872, p. 106.

[55] Wiener Med. Wochenschrift, Feb. 28, 1874.

[56] The Clinic, March 2, 1872.

[57] Philadelphia Med. and Surg. Reporter, Jan. 16, 1875.

[58] Druggists’ Circular and Gazette, Nov., 1879

[59] Edinburgh Medical Journal, Sept. 1877, p. 211.

[60] Dr. A. P. Hayne, Med. Supt. Inebriate Asylum, San Francisco, Cal.

[61] London Lancet, Aug. 2d, 1873.

[62] Letter to the Author.

[63] Lancet, Dec., 1875.

[64] Lancet, March 11, 1876.

[65] Letters to the Author.

[66] Letter to the Author.

[67] Quoted by Mattison, “Chloral Inebriety,” a paper read before the King’s Co. Medical Society, April 15th, 1879.

[68] Mattison, op. cit.

[69] Op. cit., p. 5.

[70] Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, Nov. 9, 1878.

[71] In a letter just received Dr. Mattison states that Dr. Benj. Lee, of Philadelphia, is the gentleman referred to, but that he (Dr. Mattison) does not remember in what journal he saw the case reported.

[72] London Lancet, Aug. 9, 1873.

[73] Quoted by Mattison, op. cit., p. 5.

[74] American Practitioner, 1875.

[75] Quoted by Labbée, Archiv. Gen. de Med., 1870, p. 330.

[76] Berlin Klin. Wochen., July 3, 1876, p. 389.

[77] Archiv. Gen. de Med., 1870. T. 2, p. 330.

[78] Compte Rendu, Aug. 3, 1874.

[79] American Journal of the Med. Sciences, Oct., 1877.

[80] Virginia Medical Monthly, May, 1880.

[81] Letter to the Author.

[82] Letter to the Author.

[83] June, 1871.

[84] Practitioner, 1873.

[85] Kane; “Chloral Hydrate in the Treatment of the Insomnia of Insanity and Delirium Tremens.” N. Y. Medical Record, Jan. 8 and 15, 1881.

[86] Quoted by Mattison. Op. cit.

[87] Kane; “Some Peculiar Effects of Chloral Hydrate on the Eyes and Skin.” N. Y. Medical Record, 1881.

To those interested in the further study of the action of chloral on the skin, I give the following references:—

Browne, Crichton, Lancet, Vol. 1, p. 440. Curschmann, Deutsches Archiv f. Klin. Med., 1871, p. 139. Brochin, M., Bull. Gen. de Therap., Feb. 15, 1880. Burman, J. Wilkie, Lancet, Mar. 16, 1872. Farquharson, Braithwaite’s Epitome, Mar., 1880. Ingalls, Wm., N. Y. Medical Record, 1871, p. 91. Liebreich, O., Lancet, June 16, 1877. Mayer, La France Medicale, 1876. Martinet, Thèse de Paris, 1879. Neal, Breward, Lancet, Aug. 23, 1873. Smith, Nathan R., N. Y. Medical Record, 1871, p. 299. Kiernan, J. G.; Quoted by Mattison. Op. cit.

[88] Allgemeine Zeitschrift f. Psychiatrie, Bd. 28, Heft. 1.

[89] Kane, “Chloral in Obstetric Practice.” American Journal of Obstetrics, March, 1881.

[90] This is conclusively proved by the experiments of both Labbée and Rajewsky, quoted by H. C. Wood, “Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” Philadelphia, 1877, p. 318, 319.

[91] Practitioner, 1873.

[92] “Antagonism of Therapeutic Agents,” p. 54.

[93] Op. cit.

[94] Lancet, 1871.

[95] Quoted by Mattison. Op. cit.

[96] Allgemeine Zeitschrift f. Psychiatrie, Bd. 28, Heft. 1.

[97] Quoted by Labbée, Bull. Gen. de Therap., 1869. T. 2, p. 758.

[98] Quoted by Mattison. Op. cit.

[99] Lancet, May 24, 1873.

[100] British Medical Journal, Sept. 2, 1876.

[101] Kane; “Deaths from Chloral Hydrate.” N. Y. Medical Record, Dec., 1880.

[102] Calkins; “The Opium Habit,” Phila., 1871.

[103] Op. cit. p. 323.

[104] Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Phila., 1877, p. 226.

[105] Kane; “Deaths from Chloral.” N. Y. Medical Record, Dec. 25, 1880, Jan. 1, 1881.