The planter had the entire crowd arrested, searched for cocaine and kept in jail until the habit was broken.
Negro Cocaine Victims Not a few of the cases both black and white showed evidences of cocaine or morphine poisoning--the blear eyes, the unsteady nerves.
Use of Cocaine Among Negroes As I have said before, the white landlord who really tries to treat his Negroes well, often has a hard time of it.
The blacks also suffer from the use of liquor, though drunkards are little known among the cotton hands; but drugs, particularly cocaine and morphine, are widely used.
In one country store a clerk has been known to make up a hundred and fifty packages of cocaine in a single night.
The abolition of the saloon and the extirpation of the 'blind tiger' and the cocaine dive would remove the most potent external causes of negro criminality.
Jealousy is a frequent cause of fights and murders; and whisky is so potent an excitant that many competent observers assert that whisky and cocaine are at the bottom of almost all serious negro crimes.
For the diagnosis of lameness cocaine injections are of very considerable value.
To the cocaine other practitioners add morphia in the following proportions: Cocaine hydrochlorate 2-1/2 grains.
In the sale of horsescocaine injections conceal fraud.
As a diagnostic this mixture of the two is said to be far superior to either cocaine or morphia alone.
Injected subcutaneously over the metacarpal nerves on each side 6 grains ofcocaine in aqueous solution.
Cocaine hydrochlorate solutions, if intended to be kept for any length of time, should have added to them when freshly made 1/200 part of boric acid in order to preserve them.
Injected 2 grains of cocaine in aqueous solution on either side of the limb, immediately over the metacarpal nerves.
Cocaine being an irritant, it must be remembered that after the anæsthesia the lameness is somewhat more marked than before.
This animal received altogether 12 grains of cocaine (3 grains were given on either side first, then fifteen minutes afterwards the same dose repeated).
He has taken a most amazing amount of cocaine within the last three days--winding up with a huge dose of morphia.
The cocainehe had used only during the past few months.
This secreting of tablets of morphia and cocaine in the big cigarettes had been the employment of Chesney during those hours behind locked doors before leaving London.
To be in an apparently normal condition, now that he is saturated with the poison, his system must daily absorb a certain amount of either cocaine or morphia.
Cocaine solutions are very extensively employed to produce local anæsthesia in minor surgical operations.
In the course of one year most of the cocaine has undergone a chemical change and the leaves are absolutely worthless.
Cocaine causes a feeling of depression, and a marked reduction in the activity of the senses preceded by stimulation.
Preparatory to the operation for uterine procidentia and rectocele, the vaginal and labial mucous surface was wiped dry, and a 4 per centum solution of the hydrochlorate of cocaine was thoroughly brushed over it.
The notes of a few cases of the use of the hydrochlorate of cocaine will illustrate its perfect efficiency in some and its apparent inertness in others, and may help toward its proper application and general appreciation.
Cocaine is a stimulant derived from the leaves of the coca bush.
Cocaine has been poisoning people in Rangoon by hundreds.
A cocaine den was his goal, and after a short talk with an affable old Chinaman, who spoke perfect English, he took leave and once more they were threading the odorous gloom of the slums.
However, not long ago, the customs made a haul of twelve hundred ounces; out here cocaine sells for six pounds an ounce.
Time slipped by, and so far had brought no trace of the cocaine gang.
FitzGerald has brought off a splendid coup up the river--run in the cocaine gang and collared no end of drugs.
He paused and met Shafto's searching eyes, then went on: "It must amaze you to hear a fellow in this sink talking plain grammatical English, but before the cocaine fiend caught and tortured me I had brains.
No, the cocainedebauchee has no power to resist the drug," he replied in a thin refined voice.
The two cocaine victims rested side by side in death, drawn together by the long arm of coincidence.
Some were lying on their mats in semi-stupor, several who had just received an injection were patiently awaiting their dreadful sleep--one of the chief attributes of cocaine is its almost immediate effect.
Yes, giving money; but too much trouble to get morphia and cocaine and to keep people from talk.
Say, have you never heard of the cocaine business?
No; cocaine is one of the most powerful drugs--the greatest curse in our pharmacopoeia.
Hey, didn't I suggestcocaine injections last time I saw you?
If you're using the tickler to inject drugs into workers to keep them going, that's really just my cocaine suggestion modernized and I'm putting in for another thou.
Tropacocaine may replace cocainein every case as an anesthetic.
Other salts of Cocaine are not described because used substantially as the above.
Far from being a beneficial and harmless stimulant, cocaine is now one of the drug evils of our time.
He sat on the unmovable sofa and snorted the cocaine from one of its wooden armrests.
There is no pain caused even by the application of the cocaine to deaden the sensibility of the part.
Your method of using locally cocaine as an anæsthetic is such a decided improvement.
After an injection ofcocaine and carefully cleansing out the bladder, a stone was found about one inch and a half in diameter, probably similar in its composition to the pieces already passed.
If the patient be extremely sensitive the application to the cervix of a weak solution of cocaine is quite sufficient to completely benumb or anesthetize the parts so as to entirely avoid all pain from the operation.
And these foreign doctors handling cocaine are heavily bonded.
We furnish Cocainein the following packages: Cocaine alkaloid, pure in crystals; Cocaine citrate, 4 per cent.
An application of cocaine or of belladonna ointment should be made to the part prior to the employment of the bougie.
The application of thecocaine may have to be repeated once or twice, at intervals of three or four minutes, in order to obtain the desired anæsthetic effect.
If any ointment has been used about the fissure, the anus should be subjected to a hot-water douche before using the cocaine, as cocaine will not exert its anæsthetic influence on a greasy surface.
Prothero got him to invest in a medicine to cure the cocaine habit.
Needham found the cure was no cure, but cocaine disguised.
She had heard before of the cocaine "snuffers" who took a little of the deadly powder, placed it on the back of the hand, and inhaled it up the nose with a quick intake of breath.
But while there is a normal mechanism for thyroid detoxication, thecocaine or heroin derivatives mark the tissues permanently with their scars and deform the personality.
Thus the effects of cocaine may be compared with the effects of thyroid.
More time is taken up if fresh applications of cocaine or adrenalin have to be made, if bleeding be troublesome, and if one of the flaps should be punctured.
To relieve the pain a few drops of a sterilized 1% solution of cocaine may be instilled and left within the ear for a few minutes.
As stated above, the combination of chloroform and cocaine does not appear to be dangerous if used with discretion.
Adrenalin has no anæsthetic power, but its constricting action lessens the tendency of cocaine to be deeply absorbed, increases the latter’s local effect, and allows of a weaker solution being employed.
If necessary, the edges of the wound can also be freshened and brought together by silkworm-gut sutures under cocaine anæsthesia.
Subsequently the eye should be bandaged for a few hours until the effect of the cocainehas passed off, as in wiping the eye the patient may wipe off the epithelium of the cornea whilst it is insensitive from the cocaine.
To arrest the bleeding it may be necessary to apply cocaine and adrenalin mixture, and to raise the foot of the table so that the blood drains away from the field of operation.
As the ethmoid is diseased in nearly all cases it should be cleared away at previous sittings, under cocaine or chloroform (see p.
Swabs on the end of a glass rod dipped in adrenalin and cocaine may also be used during the operation.
Cocaine is manufactured from the dry leaves of the Erythroxylon coca, which grows in the valleys of the East Cordilleras of South America--i.
This circumstance caused the author to devise a simple process for the manufacture of crude cocaine on the spot, neither Peru nor Bolivia being suitable countries for complicated chemical operations.
A repetition of the process with once-extracted coca leaves gave no further quantity of cocaine, proving that all the cocainegoes into solution by one treatment.
A white bulky precipitate of cocaine hydrochloride is obtained, together with an aqueous solution of the same compound, while the petroleum is free from the alkaloid and may be used for the extraction of a fresh batch of leaves.
