1 be fount! in the <t oorid volum e The abuse wliicli the inhabit¬
2 ants of India make of this poisonous drug is frequently carried
3 to such an extent that all medical assistance proves vain and
4 futile. A - an •example,. I will mention the case of a lady
5 who poisoned herself by the cossive use of this drug, a
6 short time previously to the annexation of the Punjab. This
7 lady took poppy juice mixed with oil, which is the usual
8 method adopted when they wish to baffle medical assistance.
9 Tier motive for committing suicide, was jealousy, lier husband
10 having another wife, whom she believed to enjoy the love
11 of her consort in a higher degree than herself. The magistrate,
12 ou hearing of the circumstance, requested ns.' to at lend her.
13 An hour had. passed since she had taken the opium, and I
14 found her in the full possession of her senses, which she
15 retained up to her last niou ent. She was sitting on her
16 bed, and related to me • calmly what she had done. In order
17 |o Jose no time, I began lo administer some remedies, anil
18 ordered her to be Convened to my hospital. But she Wus past
19 all remedy, and after having been for twenty-fours in a sitting
20 posture she fell back dead, as il" struck by apoplexy; she
21 Imd previously complained of feeling severe pains in her limbs,
22 and requested lien soil to pinch them continually.
23 Those who desire to abstain from the habit of taking opium,
24 or drinking the cold infusion of poppy-heads, are recomn.er i. .1
25 to take a large quince, and having cut away a portion, and
26 made a cavity in the centre, to weigh it, and then t<>
27 puk-in the tenth part of its weight of opium; the opening
28 is then to be filled up with the piece of quince; and, enclosed
29 in u )Xiste, it is placed amidst hot ember.-, mid left until the
30 paste has become charred. The quince is then to ho taken out,
31 cleaned from its burnt coat, and the remains of the opium
32 thrown away, the effective part of it having been absorbed by
33 the quince. Of this preparation they should take daily the
34 same quantity as they had been accustomed to take of opium.
35 At Bokhara I saw a hakim of Kashgar, who acquired some
36 reputation for Ins skill in curing opium-eating, which lie per.