The Treatment of Opium-Eaters
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opium-eaters brought to the jail to undergo sentence of imprisonment. The people of Sagor were worse off as regards opium taking than those of Narsingpur. My rule of practice was to stop opium completely at once. It is true that the prisoners complained of excruciating pain for a day or two, but this was, I think, more imaginary than real, or rather the sensation of a mind weakened and imbeciled by the prolonged habitual opium-eating. The majority of them suffered from diarrhoea, but here too I obstinately withheld opium and treated the cases with chalk and kino, &c., and they invariably yielded to this treatment. I had in fact no real difficulty in treating these cases without
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