This little book is a practical setting forth of the methods of handling drug addiction. It is the work of a man who is engaged in treating patients and who gives the results of his experience. The symptoms of opium and morphine addiction and withdrawal are set forth, however, not in any great degree of fullness, most of the work being devoted to a description of various methods of treatment, particularly the rapid and the gradual methods of withdrawal, a discussion of the most desirable drugs to substitute and tide over the critical period, and of other drugs, particularly strychnine, which are used as accessories. There is a lot of practical information about the type of individual who takes opium, but there is no deep insight into the real explanation of drug addiction. The book is a useful, practical manual and contains many helpful suggestions.

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