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" Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The... "
The Chemistry of Common Life - Page 354
by James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1854 - 654 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 74

England - 1853 - 816 pages
...resolved to know the truth, and accordingly took my seat in the coffeehouse with half a dozeu Theriakis. Their gestures were frightful; those who were completely...flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the genera) expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect ia usually produced in two hours,...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 28

Arts - 1830 - 496 pages
...potent drug. The gestures of the men were frightful. Those who were completely under the influence of opium talked incoherently. Their features were flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours. The...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 14

1829 - 488 pages
...very striking, and is enough to cure any man of common sense of wishing to become an opium, eater. " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...incoherently, their features were flushed, their eyes had art unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances vvaa horribly wild. The...
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The New York Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 9

Medicine - 1830 - 530 pages
...potent drug. The gestures of the men were frightful. Those who were completely under the influence of opium talked incoherently. Their features were flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours. The...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 1-3

1830 - 452 pages
...who were completely under the influenre of the opium talked incoherently, their features were Bushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horridlv wild. The effect i« dsually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five ; the close varies...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 7

Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...know the truth, and, accordingly took my seat in the coffee-bouse, with half-a-dozen 399 Theriahis.* Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usnally produced in two hours, and lasts four or five ; the dose varies from three grains to a drachm...
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Encyclopædia Americana, Volume 9

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...speaking of the opium eaters of Constantinople, whom he saw in a coffee-house frequented by them, says, " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 9

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...coffee-house frequented by them, says, " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were complete!; under the influence of the opium talked incoherently...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon...
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Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...coffue/-homr frequented by them, says, " Their gesture were frightful ; those who were completely 397 inder the influence of the opium talked incoherently ; their...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 9

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 650 pages
...them, says, " Their gesture* were frightful ; those who were completely OPIUM— OPORTO. 397 onder the influence of the opium talked incoherently ; their...lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains toadrachm. The debility,both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite...
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