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- there I consumed in one sitting nearly 3 mace (38 gr to a mace) or more than! average opium smoker consumes in a day. In the opium eater the only effect observable is the action of the eye before mentioned. This is the only difference to be detected between the two forms of consuming opium eating opium and drinking solution or tinctures the effect is practically the same,
Question No. 5.
Yet the majority in book forms of using opium among Asiatics become slaves to its use, if it can be called slavery in such moderate doses as the great majority consume I should rather put it that they become habituated to its use. My experience in Assam and Bengal of opium eaters, amongst Asiatics comparatively well-to-do and well-nourished, is that there is no such thing as opium becoming a sol...
I was present at a large Chinese dinner party in Canton, composed of wealthy Government Officials, Bankers, and Merchants. During the interval and after dinner, there were some dozen or half a dozen opium smokers. The entertainment began at nine in the evening, and I left at four in the morning. To one opium smoker I devoted especial attention. He had a handsome and costly pair of pipes with ... and from watching him, he must have smoked at least six mace.