10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ETHEROMANIAC»
Discover the use of
etheromaniac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
etheromaniac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Patriotism, Inc and Other Tales by Paul van Ostaijen
Though it has an unnerving effect on the ordinary person, it works only as ecstasy
on the etheromaniac. But there is a danger. Someone may point out: 'It is not
enough that drumfire does not paralyze you. Ether should also have the power to
...
E. M. Beekman, Paul Van Ostaijen, 1971
A population of a hundred thousand persons is more or less etheromaniac. On
market and fair days, wherever there is a crowd, the atmosphere reeks with the
fumes of ether. Dr. Kerr says that the ' smell is overpowering, nauseating, and ...
William Thomas Stead, 1890
3
The Druggists' Bulletin
At last he became a regular sot, or etheromaniac, spending whole nights in the
open air and haunting the different apothecaries' shops, in order to collect in
small doses the enormous quantity which was required to procure intoxication.
I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering
old man ; a battered and lonely hulk cast up on the shores of existence — a
hopeless and despairing human wreck. There have already been nearly a dozen
...
... And though my own disasters end in friend or wife, Because they start,
however much it seems with lust, With Norpramine, or Stellazine, or angel dust,
They really must be classed with all the rest of these, And called, Etheromaniac
Fatalities, ...
6
Medical and Surgical Reporter
Erythema, multiforme, 618. I'lserine in night-sweating, 400. Ether ; injections for,
28 ; subcutaneous injections of, 89; sulphuric, an anaesthetic, 220; spray, to
hasten, 315 ; vs. chloroform, 315. Etheromaniac, an, 62. Ethmoid cells, catarrh of,
89.
7
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
He did not appear to care for food or drink, but lived continually plunged in the
exhilarating vapor of the ether, which he would leave only to study and solve the
most difficult problems in the higher mathematics. AN /ETHEROMANIAC. He
would ...
At last he became a regular sot, or etheromaniac, spending whole nights in the
open air and haunting the different apothecaries' shops, in order to collect in
small doses the enormous quantity which was required to procure intoxication.
9
Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of ...
In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a
moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients. I have no doubt that
anatomical investigation of ether drinkers would show modifications similar to
those ...
10
Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century
... etheromaniac earl” who “committed extravagances which, from a moral point of
view, classified him among mental deficients”. Although not substantially
addictive, these substances clearly had the potential to become habit-forming ...
