THE NARCOTIC DRUG PROBLEM
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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THE NARCOTIC DRUG PROBLEM
BY
ERNEST S. BISHOP, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Clinical Professor of Medicine, New York Polyclinic Medical School; Member Narcotic Committee, Conference of Judges and Justices of New York State; Committee on Habit Forming Drugs, Section on Food and Drugs, American Public Health Association.
Formerly Resident Physician, Alcoholic, Narcotic and Prison Service, Bellevue Hospital; Formerly Visiting Physician and President of the Medical Board, Workhouse Hospital. New York Department of Corrections; Fellow Academy of Medicine, Visiting Physician St. Joseph Tuberculosis Hospital, Consulting Physician to St. Mark’s Hospital, etc., etc.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1920
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.
TO
MY WIFE,
WHO HAS SHARED MY BURDENS AND HELPED IN MY WORK, AND WHOSE INTEREST IN AND SYMPATHY WITH MY WORK HAS MADE MUCH OF IT POSSIBLE, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED.