Morphia Habit

The Morphia Habit

The Cure of the Morphia Habit

Morphia Habit without Suffering By Oscar Jennings, m.d. (Paris). London : Balliere, Tindall & Cox, 1901. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, pp. 220 + xii. Cr. 8vo. Price, 3s. 6d. net. The present little volume is the second and revised edition of Dr. Oscar Jennings' book on the cure of the morphia habit without suffering, or what he calls physiological demorphinisation. Dr. Jennings' practic...

Vomiting Caused by Morphia

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir.?In your issue for March 1927, the article by Mr. Y. S. Rao on the above subject is interesting, though vomiting is a fairly common symptom after administration of morphia. If he has not done so, I would recommend him to try instead Nepenthe (dose 15 to 20 drops orally administered). In my experience this drug only very rarely causes nausea, and ne...

The Treatment of Habituation to Morphia

To the Editor, The Indian Medicai, Gazette. Sir,?Dr. Hari Charan Gupta in his letter, published in the August number of the Gazette, wants to know the course of treatment to be pursued for the man (?) who takes 40 grains of morphia hypodermically or 80 grains by the mouth. For the cure of the morphia habit, James P. Haines of New York uses dionin, as follows:?If a patient uses 3 grains of morph...

The Preliminary Excitant Action of Morphia

Sir,?In man, morphine in therapeutic doses, has a depressant action on the central nervous system, though in some animals it has a transient stimulant action? especially on the spinal cord. But even in animals this stimulant action is limited to the spinal cord; and the brain is depressed without any preliminary phase of stimulation. I was therefore surprised when, some time ago, I gave a hypod...