The narcotic drug diseases and allied ailments

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by  Pettey, George Eugene,1857-

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Dr.John T. Lambert B.A. 1935
Dr. Samuel W.LambertJr. B.A. 1919
Dr. Dickinson W. RichardsJr. B.A. 1917
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The Narcotic Drug Diseases
AND
Allied Ailments
PATHOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS, and TREATMENT
By
GEO. E. PETTEY, M.D.,
Memphis, Tennessee
Member, Memphis and Shblbt Countt Medical Society, Tennessee State
MedicalAssociation,AmericanMedicalAssociation, Tri-State Medical
Associationof Mississippi,Arkansas,and Tennessee alsoMissis-
;
sippi Valley Medical Association, SonTHERN Medical
Association, and of the American Society
FOR the Stddy of Alcohol and
Narcotic Diseases.
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
F. A. DAVIS COMPANY, Publishers
1913
COPYRIGHT, 1913
BV
GEO. E. PETTEY, M.D.
All Rieht3 Reserved
Philadelphia, Fa., U. S. A.
Press of F. A. Davis Company
1914-1916 Cherry Street
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To
the Man who is Helpless and yet Hopes,
who Longs for Freedom, who Strives against
Odds Unequal while No One Seems to See, or Care
to Help, This Book is Offered as a Ground for
Hope, a Rift in the Clouds, a Helping Hand.

INTRODUCTORY.
The conviction, reinforced by long experience, that
drug habitues are, in most cases, the blameless victims of
disease, and that they not only merit sympathy and con-
sideration, but are entitled to rational and skillful medi-
cal aid, such as is accorded the sufiferers from other
physical ailments, has impelled the author to write and
publish this work.
This volume treats narcotic addiction as a disease,
a toxemia, of drug, auto- and intestinal origin, the
management and treatment of which belong to the field
of internal medicine and not to neurology.
The vital and essential principle of the treatment ad-
vocated is elimination. This method, with all its auxil-
iaries, is presented herein in detail, and furnishes a
rational basis for the scientific medication and humane
management of these cases.
In order to make this monograph of greater direct
value to the general practitioner, who may be more
concerned with collateral subjects than with the treat-
ment of narcotic addiction, much space is devoted to the
treatment of acute ailments occurring in narcotic and
alcoholic habitues, to the withdrawal of narcotics after
prolonged use during acute ailments, the management of
infants born of drug-using mothers, the treatment of
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vi Introductory.
delirium tremens, and "sobering-up" the victims of acute
alcoholism.
Certain propositions are so essential to a clear under-
standing of the subjects considered in this work that the
author has thought best to repeat some of these funda-
mental propositions in the various connections in which
they should be considered, rather than to depend upon
cross-references. These repetitions will doubtless mar
the work in the eyes of a reviewer, but it is confidently
believed that this arrangement of the matter more effect-
ively teaches the subject, and makes the volume of more
practical value as a reference work than could have been
done had cross-references alone been depended upon.
Memphis, Tnw.,
Geo. E. Pettey.