Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


Substances which, like cod-liver oil, serve as food to a worn-out
body, or, like iron, tend to enrich the blood, or, like quinine, aid
in bringing an abnormal system to a healthy condition, are valuable
servants and cannot be entirely dispensed with so long as man is
subject to disease.


But substances which, like opium, laudanum, and alcohol, are not
required by the body as food, or as a systematic, intelligent aid to
recovery, but are taken solely for the stimulus aroused or for the
insensibility induced, are harmful to man, and cannot be indulged in
by him without ultimate mental, moral, and physical loss. Substances
of the latter class are known as narcotics and stimulants.

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