ABSTRACT
A practitioner of medicine in a large city, as a rule, has not as intimate a knowledge of his patients and patrons as his confrere in the small country town of two or three thousand inhabitants. A druggist in a town of 2500 inhabitants, laid in forty-eight ounces of morphin as a supply for his drug store for three weeks, and yet there were three other drug establishments in the same town. The habit can be eradicated much more rapidly under changed surroundings than it is possible to do at home, where everything brings the morphin habit so forcibly before the patient. In another family where for three generations whisky and morphin were both used, the third generation is almost extinct, without offspring; the one representative has never used either drug, but suffers for the sins of his ancestors.
