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It was the work of an instant to puncture the skin of Laleli's hand, and to inject a small dose of morphine, a very small dose indeed, for the solution was weak. But the effect was almost instantaneous.
She had a bit too much heart for the game she played. And the heart is there still, for all the paint and powder and morphine she fights the world with! Poor Lize!" Max's eyes were still wide, but the anger had died down. "And the girl?" he questioned. "The girl, and the brute, and the man with the clever head? What have they all to do with each other and with her?"
It so happened that two jars containing standard pills had been standing side by side upon an adjacent shelf, and, a prescription for morphine having come in at the same time as that for the calomel, the druggist had carelessly filled the morphine prescription with calomel, and the calomel prescription with morphine.
Between a fatally certain result and one that was possible he did not hesitate. He must give up morphine, and this choice forced itself upon him with so much more strength, because if morphine assured him sleep at night, it by no means gave him tranquil days quite the contrary.
For instance, it permits a patient whose kidneys have been demoralized by iodide of potassium to gain time and recuperate so that he can safely begin to drink iodide again! "I add that terrific shooting pains, which rebel even against chloroform and morphine, often yield to an application of 'green electricity. You ask me, perhaps, of what ingredients this liquid electricity is made.
"Which is it to-day?" I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent. solution. Would you care to try it?" "No, indeed," I answered, brusquely. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra strain upon it." He smiled at my vehemence.
But when the Pure Food Law compelled us to print the amount of morphine on the label, I just made up my mind that I'd have no government interference in the Certina business, so I dropped the drug." "Did the law hurt our trade much?" "Not so far as Certina goes. I'm not even sure it didn't help. You see, now we can print 'Guaranteed under the U.S. Food and Drugs Act' on every bottle.
For months the pain, alcoholics, and morphine kept the mind in such a daze that there were only the imbecilic mutterings of a dreamer in trouble. The only treatment indicated in this case was the best of surgery for the injury, and some easing doses for a short while at first, to relieve pain.
All her life she had fought these moods when they came. But now now she yielded to the subtle charm of them the wild pleasure of their very sinfulness. "And why not," she cried to herself when the consciousness of it came over her, and like a morphine fiend carrying the drug to his lips, she knew that she also was pressing there the solace of her misery.
If I'd had my way I'd have passed around the morphine to the whole bunch early in the book." Eve smiled. "I'm afraid you wouldn't care for this one either," she said, indicating the book in her lap. "I heard this described as 'forty chapters of agony and two words of relief." "'The End, eh? That was clever. You write stories yourself, don't you?"
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