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104 REPORT OF THE SECTION^ THE MATTISON METHOD IN MORPHINISM. By W. P. IVEY, Lenoir, N, C. The man with morphinism is like the man with few shekels, in that he is always with us. His habitat is not bounded by zone or any imaginary or fixed line and he flourishes alike in all seasons. In the United States alone he is one hundred thousand strong. Some of us may never see a case of hemorhagic malarial fever; some of us may never see a case of smallpox or milk sickness or leprosy, but every single blessed one of us will be certain to run afoul the unfortunate opium inebriate. And he is likely to be an acquaintance of long standing and not easily shaken. This has been the experience not only of the past, but is sure to be the experience of the future ad infinitum. Vaccine and antitoxine have over and over again decimated the ranks of possible deadly diseases, but none of their uncles, their cousins or their aunts will ever be able to curtail the number of narcotic habitues. Kerosene oil and mosquito netting will work wonders as preventive measures, but no kindred means will ever avail to block the harbor against the invasion of the subtle fleet from Turkey. As long as there is a muscle to contract and contort, as long as there is a nerve to jump and jerk and twinge, as long as there is a hollow organ to twist and cramp and turn itself wrong side in, and just as long the papava sonniferum continues to exude the same stuff it now furnishes us, just so long will we be called upon to relieve the unfortunate victims of such a combination. I am prompted to write this paper by these considerations, together with the fact that I opine that but few of my brethren have investigated the Mattison Method and fewer still have tried it. Hare in his Practical Therapeutics devotes a few lines to its consideration and dismisses it with the statement that it deserves a more extended notice. I have given it that more extended notice and trial and wish to give you the benefit of my experience. I had heard of the Mattison Method for a dozen years or more, but had not given it attention enough to even know what it was. Necessity finally drove me to the use of it. Some of you may get caught in the very same trap, and my advice to you
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
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Date | 1902 |
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Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
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Volume Number | 49 |
Page Number | 168 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 104 REPORT OF THE SECTION^ THE MATTISON METHOD IN MORPHINISM. By W. P. IVEY, Lenoir, N, C. The man with morphinism is like the man with few shekels, in that he is always with us. His habitat is not bounded by zone or any imaginary or fixed line and he flourishes alike in all seasons. In the United States alone he is one hundred thousand strong. Some of us may never see a case of hemorhagic malarial fever; some of us may never see a case of smallpox or milk sickness or leprosy, but every single blessed one of us will be certain to run afoul the unfortunate opium inebriate. And he is likely to be an acquaintance of long standing and not easily shaken. This has been the experience not only of the past, but is sure to be the experience of the future ad infinitum. Vaccine and antitoxine have over and over again decimated the ranks of possible deadly diseases, but none of their uncles, their cousins or their aunts will ever be able to curtail the number of narcotic habitues. Kerosene oil and mosquito netting will work wonders as preventive measures, but no kindred means will ever avail to block the harbor against the invasion of the subtle fleet from Turkey. As long as there is a muscle to contract and contort, as long as there is a nerve to jump and jerk and twinge, as long as there is a hollow organ to twist and cramp and turn itself wrong side in, and just as long the papava sonniferum continues to exude the same stuff it now furnishes us, just so long will we be called upon to relieve the unfortunate victims of such a combination. I am prompted to write this paper by these considerations, together with the fact that I opine that but few of my brethren have investigated the Mattison Method and fewer still have tried it. Hare in his Practical Therapeutics devotes a few lines to its consideration and dismisses it with the statement that it deserves a more extended notice. I have given it that more extended notice and trial and wish to give you the benefit of my experience. I had heard of the Mattison Method for a dozen years or more, but had not given it attention enough to even know what it was. Necessity finally drove me to the use of it. Some of you may get caught in the very same trap, and my advice to you |
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