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hardly recognizes any difference between 25 per cent of morphine in the drug and none at all, and does not recognize any difference at all between 4 per cent of morphine and 25 per cent, which he certainly would do if he ate it. In fact, the great principle of the "opium, Morphia, in smoking" seems to be that it in no way affects "vanish; certainly it" the smokers.
Mr M'Callum in the above-mentioned article reports similar results to even more elaborate experiments; it would seem, therefore, that opium when smoked has none of the action of a narcotic drug.
Further to the ultimate effects of continued opium smoking, Dr Shpes (paragraph 53 and following) states that a list is kept of opium smokers, who are received into the Hongkong Gaol, along with their age, weight, usual daily consumption of opium, etc. The general result of his observation on these prisoners during the period of their imprisonment, when they are allowed opium, is that he has found "no case of disease among them, that..."
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