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injection of
a solution of morphine
These are cheaper habits
than
smoking, and unquestionably
serious evils arising from
the smoking of opium. The baneful
nature of
these two habits, i.e.,
the taking of opium or morphine,
the injection of
internally
and
morphine, is not open to question.
If the Chinese could obtain the
opium smoking extract at a
reasonable
price,
as the British
workman procures his weekly
supply of tobacco, there would be
no such thing
as
regular morphine injections
or internal doses by
the mouth of opium
or morphine.
I am informed that the quantity
of morphine imported into China is something
considerable.
It is
unfortunate that statistics are
not available. These evils arising
from the use
of opium may
be attributed to the fact that
the