ABSTRACT
Since the introduction of Cocaine, and its stimulating action when taken into the human system has become known, its seductive qualities have produced a widespread evil, resulting in a malady known as Cocaine addiction. The importance of an accurate diagnosis in this malady is second in importance only to that of opium addiction, and must be sought for in the physical and mental symptoms as well as by chemical analysis of the urine. The dentist, rhinologist and general practitioner have, by their prescriptions and applications, contributed their quota to the number of habitual Cocaine users. When a strong solution of Cocaine is used the skin becomes disorganized, ulcers form, varying in size from a small pea to large areas of integument. The Cocaine habituate is totally unfit for his ordinary avocations; his work, if done at all, is performed in a most erratic and unsatisfactory way and much neglected.
