other hand, advice that it should com. mence after a fortnight : to meet this
arrangement,
or vinegar
there is sufficient lime juice on board . The distribution of Opium should be daily, and made by the orders and under the personal super. intendence of the medical officer, who
will need to exercise the utmost care
more
than the
and caution to prevent the smokers of large quantities getting by fraud stated supply, and to him must be left the discretion of increasing and diminishing the allowance, the latter by regular and slow gradation, in conformity with the habit and state of health of the emigrant.
in
We are
2 guided come to respecting
-respecting the Opium, by experience of the evils of a sudden discontinuance of its use, especially under the unfavor. able influence of imprisonment, or confinement on board ship.
the decision we have
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Diarrhoea, Dysentery, sloughing
phagedaenic ulcers of the legs, too often
supervene
aw
on
the depression occasioned
ioned by
unprepared abstinence. In the present case, we cannot also disregard the gloomy
frame of
mind and vindictive malevolence
which the forcible and sudden deprivation is certain to engender, and the danger
to life and property which we have too much reason to know will ensure
there from.
officer will manage the
The medical officer will
distribution of the Opium with the
precaution above stated, and with the of weaning the viction during
view
passage from indulgence
The following
in this vice .
are
his
the returns
of the sick at present in the Hospitals
on shore.
bases