A Vindication of Englands Policy With Regard to the Opium Trade
A Vindication of Englands Policy With Regard to the Opium Trade
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Medhurst, himself a zealous and enlightened medical missionary, that it " has not even the semblance of truth, but is an outrageous exaggeration. " What the exact number of deaths from this cause may be 64 THE OPIUM TRADE.
is by no means so easy to discover ; * for, apart from the fact that there is no register of deaths to appeal to, it would be impossible to decide how many even of the deaths caused by opium could be attributed to the habit of smoking opium as a luxury, for many of them, as h...as been pointed out, might be due to suicide, ! for self- destruction by opium J seems as common a prac- tice with the Chinese as suicide by drowning is with us. But there is another and more fertile element of error ; for many, and probably the vast majority of cases so pathetically described by * Dr. Christlieb, a German professor, says 400, 000 ; but Dr. Medkurst, a medical man resident for years in China, with all his life-long experience and knowledge would not even hazard a conjecture as to the annual death-rate.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Medhurst, himself a zealous and enlightened medical missionary, that it " has not even the semblance of truth, but is an outrageous exaggeration. " What the exact number of deaths from this cause may be 64 THE OPIUM TRADE.
is by no means so easy to discover ; * for, apart from the fact that there is no register of deaths to appeal to, it would be impossible to decide how many even of the deaths caused by opium could be attributed to the habit of smoking opium as a luxury, for many of them, as h...as been pointed out, might be due to suicide, ! for self- destruction by opium J seems as common a prac- tice with the Chinese as suicide by drowning is with us. But there is another and more fertile element of error ; for many, and probably the vast majority of cases so pathetically described by * Dr. Christlieb, a German professor, says 400, 000 ; but Dr. Medkurst, a medical man resident for years in China, with all his life-long experience and knowledge would not even hazard a conjecture as to the annual death-rate.
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