tri-diurnal

Updated: June 19, 2025

Many a professional man of my acquaintance who twenty years ago was content with his tri-diurnal "whisky," ten years ago, drop by drop, began taking stronger "laudanum cock-tails," until he became what he is now an habitual opium-eater. I have tried to show what he will be.

Horace B. Day - The Opium Habit