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Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, Vol. 57: A Weekly Review of Medicine; January to June, 1893, Inclusive When codeine is relinquished it is advisable that the patient be relieved of ordinary duties for a few days, and avoid all sources of annoyance as far as practicable. But strict confinement and enforced inactivity should be avoided if possible. On the contrary, there are times when vigor ous exercise will relieve restlessness, especially calisthenics before going to bed. In conclusion, let me say that if any one subject to the morphine habit expects any golden specific to bear him back to health without some effort and some sacrifice he will be disappointed. It is hardly possible in the nature of things that the laws of conservation and compensation of the material world should have no counterpart in conditions governing the nutrition of nerves of sense. The sole advantage of the treatment above given lies in the fact that the penalty may be paid in installments. This is not possible by any gradual reduction of morphine alone, as the supreme difficulty consists in renouncing the last traces. To those who may attempt for the first time a cure by this method, the inconvenience may seem greater than this account would lead one to suppose. Let them try any other method generally practiced. It is chiefly by compari son with other methods that its value becomes apparent, and in this respect it is difficult to speak of it in terms of moderation. 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.