This volume has been compiled chiefly for the benefit of
opium-eaters. Its subject is one indeed which might be made alike
attractive to medical men who have a fancy for books that are
professional only in an accidental way; to general readers who
would like to see gathered into a single volume the scattered
records of the consequences attendant upon the indulgence of a
pernicious habit; and to moralists and philanthropists to whom its
sad stories of infirmity and suffering might be suggestive of new
themes and new objects upon which to bestow their reflections or
their sympathies. But for none of these classes of readers has the
book been prepared. In strictness of language little medical
information is commu-nicated by it. Incidentally, indeed, facts are
stated which a thoughtful physician may easily turn to professional
account. The literary man will naturally feel how much more
attractive the book might have been made had these separate and
sometimes disjoined threads of mournful personal histories been
woven into a more coherent whole; but the book has not been made or
literary men.
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