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Appendix. A
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Chom a lok vet. by at present living in
Hong Kong and
receipt of a pension
from the Colonial Government.
Indefinite remembers however that his
Family History
father
was troubled with
a severe –
cough.
Previous History. Patient was born at
Macau and came to
Hong Kong shortly
after
the British settled here; he was
cook's mate, at a
Government house, after having been in this
situation some
time
he entered the Government Civil Hospitals
as a coolie; this would be as far as he can recollect about 1853; he remained some 4 or 5
years
as Coolie
and
was
in Dr Cochrane's time appointed Chinese Ward master, which appointment he held until 1889
when he
was pensioned off on account
of old age.
He first contracted the habit
of smoking opium when
about 20 years of age
on the
advice
of
a Doctor whom he had lied
to
as
he was then suffering from hæmorrhage from the lungs
companied by cough.
This Doctor told him that opium smoking would cure him and heal his lungs. He first commenced with 2 candareens a day and the Doctor told
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