ABSTRACT
Morphiomania arises from the abuse of morphia-injection; and the results of this abuse are disturbances of the whole nervous system. In the female patient the successive reduction of the morphia injected was attended with increase of reflex irritability and a feeling of extreme discomfort and loss of power. The patient, an intelligent and well-informed woman, lamented and wept like a child, was excited to a high degree, and incessantly cried for morphia. The symptoms of morphiomania are so distinctly defined in the cases, that it is not necessary to describe them more specially. It is worthy of notice, that the abuse of morphia produces almost the same pathological phenomena as those for which it is indicated as a remedy. The treatment of morphiomania consists principally in the withdrawal of the morphia; and sudden is preferable to gradual withdrawal.
