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Excerpt from Morphinism and Narcomanias From Other Drugs: Their Etiology, Treatment, and Medicolegal Relations Medicolegally, questions Of responsibility have been asked with increasing frequency, and there is no literature and no study Of the subject to afford an intelligent answer. The special Obj ect of this work is to group the general facts and outline some Of the causes and symptoms common to most cases, and to suggest general methods Of treatment and prevention, and in this way try to bring the sub ject out from its present empirical stage to higher and more scientific levels, and to encourage further and more exhaustive studies. This work is intended to give a general preliminary survey Of this new field Of psychopathy, and to point out the possibilities from a larger and more accurate knowledge, and so indicate degrees Of curability which are at present unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.