| 1842 - 620 pages
...expected, that the offspring of opium-smokers are weak, stunted, and decrepit. It does not appear, however, that the Chinese, in easy circumstances, and who have...longevity, by the private addiction to this vice, so destructive to those who live in poverty and distress. There are many persons wilhin the sphere... | |
| 1842 - 1224 pages
...expected, that the offspring of opium-smokers are weak, stunted, and decrepit. It does not appear, nowever, that the Chinese, in easy circumstances, and who have...longevity, by the private addiction to this vice, so destructive to those who live in poverty and distress. There are many persons, within the sphere... | |
| China - 1842 - 3588 pages
...expected, that the offspring of opium-smokers are weak, stunted, and decrepit. It does not appear, however, that the Chinese, in easy circumstances, and who have...comforts of life about them, are materially affected, in rc-iiii-rt to longevity, bv privulc addiction In this vice, so dcstmclive to those who live in poverty... | |
| Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims - China - 1842 - 714 pages
...weak, stunted, and decrepit. It does not appear, however, that the Chinese, in easy r.ircnmsl anees, and who have the comforts of life about them, are materially affected, in n-siMTt i« |nn^e\il\. IH prn ale niliHrtimí l<> tin-- мге. so dcslrncIfi-l'J Ojiium-siiwking ¡n... | |
| James Copland - 1852 - 446 pages
...states that, although the practice is most destructive to those who live in poverty and distress, or who carry it to excess, yet it does not appear that...life about them, are materially affected, in respect of longevity, by the private addiction to this vice. It would appear that, as in opium eating, so in... | |
| Jonathan Pereira - 1857 - 926 pages
...and vigorous people to be met with on the island." This desideratum has been supplied by Mr. Smith,2 surgeon, of Pulo Penang, whose statements fully confirm...seventy, or more, and who are well known as habitual opium-smokers for more than thirty years past." The first effect of this drug on the Chinese smokers... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1864 - 518 pages
...former writer, quoting the words of an intelligent, unbiassed professional observer, concludes that ' Although the practice is most destructive to those...private addiction to this vice. There are many persons withm my own observation, who have attained the ago of sixty, seventy, or more; and who are well known... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 860 pages
...of Mr Smith, a Burgeon resident at Pulo Penang, and of Dr Eatwell, who passed three years in China, it does not appear that the Chinese in easy circumstances,...are materially affected in respect to longevity by addiction to this habit. 3. As the discussion of the physiological action of opium on the different... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...of Mr Smith, a surgeon resident at Pulo Penang, and of Dr Eatwell, who passed three years in China, it does not appear that the Chinese in easy circumstances, and who bave the comforts of life about them, are materially affected in respect to longevity by addiction... | |
| Charles Elam - Medicine - 1869 - 420 pages
...writer, quoting the words of an intelligent, unbiassed professional observer, concludes that — " Although the practice is most destructive to those...private addiction to this vice. There are many persons within my own observation who have attained the age of sixty, seventy, or more ; and who are well known... | |
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