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him he must gradually increase the dose until he was smoking 3 mace = 30 candereens. Since then he has never been troubled with blood-spitting.
He has been an opium smoker forty years and on an average he has sucked 2 to 3 mace a day; now he is smoking 1½ mace a day. The opium used is Farmers first quality. He cannot always afford more, this cost him 25 cents formerly it only cost about 19 cents.
A clerk dates: - "that he is sure Clar get good of opium, by this very old opium, it will cure of Malarial fever as frequently done so. The most he has ever smoked is 5 mace in a day.
Amongst the Chinese opium is believed to have the property of curing diarrhoea and dysentery, malarial fevers, hemorrhages from the lungs (heartburn is probably meant dyspepsia and indigestion), and to relieve pain.
He thinks that healthy men who work hard benefit by smoking a little opium after their day's work, not more than 1 mace a day. If consumed in a larger quantity than this it is injurious.
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