ABSTRACT
Insurance statistics prove that medical men attain a shorter average lease of life than those of other professions, and the causes that tend to this lessened longevity play a part in the rise of morphinism. In reviewing the various causes of morphinism in medical men, the most hopeful feature is the fact that they are largely preventable. Leading all others as a genetic factor in morphinism in medical men, is their failure to realize the insidious power of morphia to speedily get a grip, disturbing and destructive alike to functional well-being of brain and brawn, and in almost every instance, one too great to be broken by any self-effort they can command. Regarding the over use of morphia, never was there so little excuse for it as now, for never were the means at command to ease pain and bring sleep equal to those of to-day.
