She had been placed in this institution under legal restraint to be treated for morphinism, and, according to her brother, "pure cussedness.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The evils of morphinism are even greater than those of alcoholism, and their transmission no less sure. From Wordnik.com. [What a Young Woman Ought to Know] Reference
Alcoholism and morphinism, or an uncontrollable desire for alcohol or opium in some form or other, are now recognized as evidences of degeneration. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire] Reference
The situation of alcoholism repeats itself in still more ruinous forms with morphinism and cocainism, vices which grow in this country to an alarming degree. From Wordnik.com. [Psychotherapy] Reference
Against the widespread vices of alcoholism, morphinism, the ether habit, etc., hypnotism has been successfully employed, but it has not prevented speedy and fatal relapses. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
I decided to make the somewhat disproportionate sacrifice of time in order to study whether even such an extreme case of morphinism is accessible to psychotherapeutic treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Psychotherapy] Reference
"Then, too, one of the most marked phases of morphinism is the pleasure its victims take in concealing their motives and conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Poisoned Pen] Reference
Special attention is paid to the etiology and therapeutics of diseases occurring most frequently, cretinism, hysteria, progressive paralysis, as well as to psychosis of intoxication, alcoholism, morphinism, etc. Hydro-therapeutics, which is especially effective in the case of neurosis and psychosis, was much cultivated by Anton Frohlich (1760-1846) and the two laymen. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
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