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or take to the
Or
already consumed here, hypodermic injection of the drug, or swallow it in the form of pills obtained from European Dispensing firms or druggists' stores. The lehmere know no substitute for opium; the craving seems to be so great, the habit having been once established that they would do anything to obtain it in one form
12.
(a) $389,900 was the amount obtained in 1891 from the Opium Farmer for monopoly of selling opium in this Colony.
13.
Some few do; I have had three cases under treatment in this hospital during the past six years. There is, in my opinion, a hereditary tendency amongst Chinese to contract this habit. They are not liable to contract it also from the sake of example and by the teachings of their so-called Doctors!
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(a) First by seeing that it is not a custom amongst their fellow countrymen at a certain age to take to this habit, and secondly by the advice of their elders.
(b) You should frequently
(c) It is in my opinion a Chinese living prophylactic amongst