The drugging of children by opium--sometimes with a view to destroy life, sometimes merely for the sake of the continual narcotism of the infant--is especially rife in India.
In certain diseases, patients quite unaccustomed to the use of sedatives can take excessive amounts without narcotism being produced.
Snow found that amylene, like chloroform, is capable of causing sudden death by inducing over-narcotism of the heart, and paralysis of this organ.
What we want now to lay before the reader is a plain statement as to the prompt treatment called for in a case of over-narcotism from too strong a dose of injected morphia.
Paraldehyde is too disagreeable to be used with impunity, and only towards morning does the sufferer yield to the narcotism induced by successive doses of chloral and bromide.
Indeed, it is said to produce narcotismin some cases.
Contraction of the pupil is observed in inflammation of the retina or of the brain, narcotism from opium (until near death) or eserine, or apoplectic effusion near the pons varolii.
Such doses can only find their justification in the demonstrated fact that smaller doses will not produce the degree of narcotism desired.
The dose is to be increased if the opium symptoms diminish before the disease yields, but always to be diminished or discontinued if narcotism is approaching.
But in a few hours more the symptoms recurred, and the same medicine was again given in three-grain doses, and again narcotism was produced.
Taught by the experience of the day before, we waited, and when she recovered from this second narcotism her disease was completely cured.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narcotism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
