Posted by Quintal on June 18, 2007, at 15:25:30
In reply to Re: Confessions of an English Opiate Eater » Quintal, posted by Phillipa on June 17, 2007, at 16:25:56
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea Phillipa, and one that might actually work. It's quite odd how relaxed they are about opiates here.
"It might strike you odd that I who have had no pain.....should need opium.....But I have had restlessness until it made me almost mad....the continual aching sense sense of weakness has been intolerable....as if one's life, instead of giving movement to the body, were imprisoned undiminished within it, & beating & fluttering impotently to get out, at all the doors and windows. So the medical people gave me opium, a preparation of it, called morphine & ether - & ever since I have been calling it........my elixir, because the tranquillizing power has been so wonderful."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861.
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