THE OPIUM HABIT,

WITH

SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE REMEDY.

LANE LIBRARY

"It is almost like Dives seeking for a messenger to his brethren; but tell them
-tell all young men what it is, 'that they come not into this torment.'"-Request
of a dying opium patient.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

4371 0606 1868

"After my death, I earnestly entreat that a full and unqualified narrative of my wretchedness, and of its guilty cause, may be made public, that at least some little good may be effected by the direful example."-COLERIDGE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

A SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ABANDON OPIUM

DE QUINCEY'S "CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER"

OPIUM REMINISCENCES OF COLERIDGE

WILLIAM BLAIR

OPIUM AND ALCOHOL COMPARED

A MORPHINE HABIT OVERCOME

ROBERT HALL-John Randolph-WILLIAM WILBERFORCE

WHAT SHALL THEY DO TO BE SAVED?

OUTLINES OF THE OPIUM-CURE

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