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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. News for Suffering Women. Morven.Ga., Feb. 26,1887. Mb. M. A. Briggs : Some time ago I bought five bottles of your Nunn- better Tonic Pills for my wife, who had been an invalid for four years, suffering with general debility, great weakness, great nervousness, loss of appetite, thick, sallow complexion, a fullness of the stomach. 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