ABSTRACT
*M or m. In 1914, Jackson & Hellyer have ' m, morph—sulphate of morphia ', but morph is far too little disguised to be c. ; 1922, Dialect Notes, article by Whitney Hastings Wells ; 1922, Emily Murphy, The Black Candle, defines it as morphine and implies that at this date it was mostly a drugaddicts' term ; June 1925, The Writer's Monthly, R. Jordan, * Idioms ' ; 1929, Givens ; June 21, 1930, Flynn's ; 1930, Clifford R. Shaw, The Jack Roller, ' He started to " hit M " (morphine) ' ; 1931, Godfrey Irwin; 1933, Cecil de Lenoir, The Hundredth Man ; April 21, 1934, Flynn's, Convict No. 12627 ; extant.
