ABSTRACT
The world today contains untold numbers of noble men and women who, through a lack of knowledge, have become the slaves of some one of the many remedies prescribed by physicians or made enticing by the advertisers’ art, to relieve them from an overworked and overtaxed system. It goes without contradiction that physicians are, strange to say,—yet not strange, either, when we recall the exacting duties of their profession,—numbered among opium’s ready victims. There is no department of life, no order of society, from the highest to the lowest, that cannot muster a large roll of opium takers. I come in contact with its victims almost everywhere; and that knowledge, and thereby security and immunity from a life of bondage, the power to break from which has not yet been discovered in the realm of medical science by the student or the careful and conscientious practitioner, would in itself alone warrant these “Confessions” being placed before the world.
