Morphinism and narcomanias from other drugs ; their etiology, treatment, and medicolegal relations / by T. D. Crothers.

  • Crothers, Thomas Davison, 1841-1918.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Morphinism and narcomanias from other drugs ; their etiology, treatment, and medicolegal relations / by T. D. Crothers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE Historically, opium mania is a very old dis- order. Morphinomania is the modem form of the same disease, and the various drug narcomanias which are associated with it are the new psycho- pathic forms due largely to modern civilization. There can be no question that these diseases are increasing, as they are certainly becoming more prominent in every section of the country. Al- though morphinism has been discussed by the profession for many years, the literature is still limited and unsatisfactory. A few volumes written by foreign authors, two of which have been trans- lated into English, and three small works, some pamphlets by English and American writers, to- gether with papers in medical journals and brief notices in some of the late text-books, comprise all that has been written on the subject. The subject- matter of many of these writings consists mainly of minute studies of different methods of treatment, with some theories and descriptions of the sympto- matology and causes. In most of these works the impression is given that morphinism is a mere acci- dental and incidental neurosis which may be largely influenced by restrictive legislation against narcotic drugs. Every year the increasing prominence of this psychosis calls for more exact studies, with a