 Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely under the influence of the opium talked incoherently; their features were flushed ; their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The...  The Chemistry of Common Life - Pàgina 354per James Finlay Weir Johnston - 1854 - 654 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1853 - 816 pàgines
...resolved to know the truth, and accordingly took my seat in the coffeehouse with half a dozeu Theriakis. Their gestures were frightful; those who were completely...flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the genera) expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect ia usually produced in two hours,... | |
 | 1830 - 496 pàgines
...potent drug. The gestures of the men were frightful. Those who were completely under the influence of opium talked incoherently. Their features were flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours. The... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pàgines
...very striking, and is enough to cure any man of common sense of wishing to become an opium, eater. " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...incoherently, their features were flushed, their eyes had art unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances vvaa horribly wild. The... | |
 | 1830 - 530 pàgines
...potent drug. The gestures of the men were frightful. Those who were completely under the influence of opium talked incoherently. Their features were flushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the expression of their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usually produced in two hours. The... | |
 | 1830 - 452 pàgines
...who were completely under the influenre of the opium talked incoherently, their features were Bushed, their eyes had an unnatural brilliancy, and the general expression of their countenances was horridlv wild. The effect i« dsually produced in two hours, and lasts four or five ; the close varies... | |
 | 1831 - 470 pàgines
...know the truth, and, accordingly took my seat in the coffee-bouse, with half-a-dozen 399 Theriahis.* Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...their countenances was horribly wild. The effect is usnally produced in two hours, and lasts four or five ; the dose varies from three grains to a drachm... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 656 pàgines
...speaking of the opium eaters of Constantinople, whom he saw in a coffee-house frequented by them, says, " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were completely...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,boih moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1832 - 626 pàgines
...coffee-house frequented by them, says, " Their gestures were frightful ; those who were complete!; under the influence of the opium talked incoherently...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility,both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pàgines
...coffue/-homr frequented by them, says, " Their gesture were frightful ; those who were completely 397 inder the influence of the opium talked incoherently ; their...five. The dose varies from three grains to a drachm. The debility, both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite is soon... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 pàgines
...them, says, " Their gesture* were frightful ; those who were completely OPIUM— OPORTO. 397 onder the influence of the opium talked incoherently ; their...lasts four or five. The dose varies from three grains toadrachm. The debility,both moral and physical, attendant on its excitement, is terrible ; the appetite... | |
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