An Anatomy of Addiction by Howard Markel

Author:Howard Markel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science
ISBN: 9780307379818
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

I would be endlessly obliged to you, though, if you were to give me a definite explanation, since I secretly believe that you know precisely what it is, and that you have been so absolute and strict in your prohibition of smoking—the justification for which is after all relative—only because of its educational and soothing effects.

Six months later, on January 24, 1895, Sigmund wrote Fliess a note singing cocaine’s praises:

I must hurriedly write to you about something that greatly astonishes me; otherwise I would be truly ungrateful. In the last few days I have felt quite unbelievably well, as though everything had been erased—a feeling which in spite of better times I have not known for 10 months. Last time I wrote you, after a good period, which immediately succeeded the reaction, that a few viciously bad days had followed during which a cocainization of the left nostril had helped me to an amazing extent. I now continue my report. The next day, I kept the nose under cocaine, which one should not really do; that is, I repeatedly painted it to prevent the renewed occurrence of swelling; during this time I discharged what in my experience is a copious amount of thick pus; and since then I have felt wonderful; as if there had never been anything wrong at all. Arrhythmia is still present, but rarely and not badly.

Later in the year, on June 12, 1895, Sigmund made a disturbing confession of sorts to Fliess about his cocaine consumption:

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