ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the treatment of opium habit harder then that of the morphine and opium habit. The physician has to consider that his remedy must be pure, genuine and fully strong enough, to replace the deleterious stimulant. The treatment of those habits is naught, but a replacement of one stimulant with another. The second consideration is the condition, moral as well as physical, of the patient at the time of his application for treatment. This imparts to the coca the bitterness of opium and at the same time secures a tonic effect upon the mucous surface of alimentary canal. The mixture tastes and looks like laudanum, especially after being filtered through charcoal to clear it. A physician should be a temperance lecturer, or that he should try to exhort and preach.
