Yavorski saw her about an hour later, and by
producing emesis, and giving coffee, atropin, and tincture of
musk, he saved her life. Pyle describes a pugilist of twenty-two
who, in a fit of despondency after a debauch (in which he had
taken repeated doses of morphin sulphate), took with suicidal
intent three teaspoonfuls of morphin; after rigorous treatment he
revived and was discharged on the next day perfectly well.
Potassium permanganate was used in this case. Chaffee speaks of
recovery after the ingestion of 18 grains of morphin without
vomiting.
In chronic opium eating the amount of this drug which can be
ingested with safety assumes astounding proportions. In his
"Confessions" De Quincey remarks: "Strange as it may sound, I had
a little before this time descended suddenly and without
considerable effort from 320 grains of opium (8000 drops of
laudanum) per day to 40 grains, or 1/8 part. Instantaneously, and
as if by magic, the cloud of profoundest melancholy which rested
on my brain, like some black vapors that I have seen roll away
from the summits of the mountains, drew off in one day,--passed
off with its murky banners as simultaneously as a ship that has
been stranded and is floated off by a spring-tide--
'That moveth altogether if it move at all.
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