Note 8 — Original Communications.
Reading edition
Extract from Nineteenth Annual Report of the Somerset Asylum:—“One female maniac, C. L., aged 35, single, most obscene in her conduct and language, noisy, destructive, and dirty, got rapidly well after the employment of the hypodermic injection of a solution containing half a grain of acetate of morphia.”
Extract from Twentieth Annual Report of the Somerset Asylum:—“The hypodermic injection of about half a grain of acetate of morphia in ♏︎x. of distilled water has been useful in cases of maniacal excitement with sleeplessness.”