...the most dreadful tortures, as during the whole of that month they are not allowed to take anything during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings,...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax.'— (Dr. Oppenheim's...

...the age of forty, if they have begun to use opium at an early age. The fasts in the montli of Kamasan are for them fraught with the most dreadful tortures,...his bliss is complete when he has taken it; to him night,brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise. Those who do make the attempt to discontinue...

...the most dreadful tortures, as during the whole of that month they are not allowed to take anything during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings,...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax.' — (Dr. Oppenheim's...

...during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings, they swallow, before the morning pra\er, besides the usual dose, a certain number of other...the use of opium, usually mix it with wax, and daily diminish the quantity of the opium, till the pill at last contains nothing but wax."—(Dr. Oppenheim's...

...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off; the torments of the opium-cater, when deprived of this stimulant, are as dreadful as...it ; to him night brings the torments of hell, day (he bliss of paradise. Those who do make the attempt to discontinue the use of opium, usually mix it...

...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it oil'. His torments when deprived of the stimulant are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise ; and after long indulgence, he becomes...

...habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off. His torments, when deprived of the stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise ; and after long indulgence, he becomes...

...torments of the opium-eater, when deprived of this stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complcte when he has taken it; to him night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of Paradise."* The " English Opium-Eater" vividly deseribes the loss of all power of the will and of intellectual...

...has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break: it off. His torments, when deprived of the stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it. Night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise; and after long indulgence, he becomes...

...age of forty, if they have begun early to use opium. When this baneful habit has become continued, it is almost impossible to break it off ; the torments...complete when he has taken it; to him night brings tho torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise." Tho moral deterioration which directly and indirectly...