Gail Collins Quote

The bottle of morphine is wrapped up and passed to the child over the counter, a Tennessee doctor wrote. Doctors and pharmacists had little compunction about dispensing narcotics. Young women cannot go to a ball without taking a dose of morphine to make them agreeable, a druggist said in 1876. A North Carolina doctor claimed he had given one patient between 2,500 and 3,000 shots over eighteen months and so far see no signs of the opium habit.

Gail Collins

The bottle of morphine is wrapped up and passed to the child over the counter, a Tennessee doctor wrote. Doctors and pharmacists had little compunction about dispensing narcotics. Young women cannot go to a ball without taking a dose of morphine to make them agreeable, a druggist said in 1876. A North Carolina doctor claimed he had given one patient between 2,500 and 3,000 shots over eighteen months and so far see no signs of the opium habit.

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