 | 1871 - 780 sider
...from its existence ; " while the East India Company, in a notable access of candour, declared that "were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind." A sentence like this conclusively reveals the existence of those mortal perturbations which secretly... | |
 | 1857 - 524 sider
...from the trade in opium, a trade of which the government spike in 1834 in the following terms : — " Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether,...we would gladly do it, in compassion to mankind." There is no manner of doubt suggested by any one that the habit of opium-smoking is entirely enervating... | |
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Were it possible to prevent the use of the drug altogether, except strictly for the purpose of medicine, we would gladly do it in compassion to mankind ; but this being absolutely impracticable, we can only endeavour to regulate and palliate an evil which... 
