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A VICTIM OF COCAINE
OItc* Illi Experience with the Fuclnat-
let Drug—Nursed Bock to Health.
Or. Charles D. Bradley’s name first
came into undesirable prominence in No
vember, 1885, when he was arrested
charged with being insane through exces
sive indulgence in morphine and cocaine,
the latter a powerful narcotic of which
up to that time little had been heard. Ho
was taken before Judge Prendergast, was
declared to be insane, and given a sen
tence of three months in the Washing
tonian home. After a fortnight's stay at
the home Dr. Bradley went to Canada,
his old home, where he gave himself up
entirely to the demands of the drug, the
fascinations of which completely en
thralled him. Practice and homo were
gone, and ho gave free rein to his vice.
He returned to Chicago and was sent to
the insane asylum, where a complete cure
was effected, and he resumed his practice,
only to find himself deserted by his
clients and his reputation impaired.
Consolation for tho reverses came with
cocaine, to which ho again became a
victim, and there were months when he
absolutely lived in the state of mind it
produced, securing it by hook or crook
until his last possession was gone and Ills
family beggared.
The physician went to the gutter, and
a year ago was begging for cocaine at
drug stores or securing it by fictitious
orders on druggists. Then he disap
peared. He was occasionally heard from
in Canada and the east until last fall,
when tho papers recorded liis arrest in
New York city for endeavoring to obtain
a supply of cocaino by representing him
self as a messenger sent from one phy
sician to another. In the police court
tho gaunt, emaciated, ragged man told
his story of want and woe, and tho
causes which brought them about. At
that time he was using sixty grains of
cocaine a day. He was sent to Bellevue
hospital to die. Thero ho was found by
tho manager of tho Christian homo,
where ho was nursed back to mental and
physical .vigor.
Dr. Bradley was reluctant to dwell on
the episodes thus briefly given, but con
versed freely on other circumstances of
his life.
“Until 1885 thero was nothing to i.im
my prospects,” said Dr. Bradley. "It
was in that year that cocaino was first
brought to notice through a German
physician, but it was only known as a
practical anmstlietic in operation by
oculists. There was no method known
for using it for other purposes. I was
tho first man to discover that it could bo
otherwiso used—in fact, to take tho placo
of ether or chloroform. That discovery,
so important to tho world, was most un
fortunate. for me. When I announced
my discovery physicians laughed and de
clared I was crazy. I wrote a letter to
Mayor Ilarricon asking him to appoint a
medical commission to inquire into tho
value of my discovery, which was tho
administration of cocaino hypodermic
ally: I first utilized my discovery by
testing it on a cat. I dissected a leg of
a cat, exposing tissues and muscles, and
kept tho animal on my desk for hours
watching tho circulation. Thero was n >
pain, tho drug exercising a soothing
effect.
“Next I began experimenting on my
self. I found that tho anesthetic influ
ence of cocaine is limited. I experi
mented on myself again and again to seo
just how far this limit extended, and
learned just where, when and how to
give injections. Physicians then be
lieved that tho effects of the drug were
similar to those of morphine. To dis
prove this I tried actual cautery by ap
plying to my body red hot irons, but I
felt no pain, and there was not tho
slightest sensation us tho flesh withered
under the heated irons. For tlireo
months every day IV* n half hour I ex
perimented with the drug, ami often
passed several hours .of the night in its
study before a mirror, watching its ef
fect on myself. But I never realized
that it was obtaining n mastery over me.
Its fascinating powers were unknown t<
the profession. I was thunderstruck when
I found that tho drag was absolutely
necessary to my mind and body. I be
lieve I could have conquered tho habit
then were it not for a misunderstanding
with tho man from whom I rented my
home. Ho wanted his house, and when
I refused to vacato it my weakness was
made a [joint by which I was dragged
into an insane court. Persecution and
publicity drovo me to desperato extremes.
At the Washingtonian home no ono
knew how to treat my disease. Every
body knows the rest—bow I went to the
gutter and lost everything.”
“With all your experience with co
caine, how do you now regard it?” asked
the reporter.
“I think it is a grand drag, with re
markable properties, and destined to take
tho place ol ether and chloroform. It can
be used without danger of death. It
produces no nausea or prostration. It is
a great specific for nervous diseases, for
certain diseases of tho spine, for paralysis,
for tetanus, hydrophobia and other con
vulsive diseases. It will unite with other
anti-spasmodica and intensify their ac
tion. I think I know more about cocaino
than most men, but I have no compre
hensive idea of its possibilities. Sci
entists are only in the experimental stage
with it.”
“What are the effects of tho drug?”
“To begin with, it is like tho effects of
any stimulant at certain stages, but it is
not stupefying: as is opium. The person
taking it has a feeling that everything is
lovely and serene, of perfect content
ment and universal satisfaction. All
things seem perfect. There are none of
tho frightful illusions which come from
liquor or other stimulants. Excessive
quantities, though, cause great irritabil
ity. The duration of the effect is about
two hours, and is succeeded hv a feeling
of depression and exhaustion. But there
is none of tho disturbance of the mind or
nervous system tnat follows drunken
ness. The victim loses all strength after
each indulgence, and there lieurtlie chief
danger in using cocaine. It weakens the
action of tho heart, making sudden strains
or excitements dangerous, as was ex
emplified in the sudden death of a physi-'
cian, who engaged in a quarrel with a
barber lost, year aad fell dead during tho
quarrel. He used cocaine. Tho effects
of the habit ore degrading. It will deaden
a man’s perception of right, jast the
same aa whisky, and pull a victim down
to tho lowest depths of low cunning and
viciousness. ’ ’—Chicago News.
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