Opium so employed does not produce narcotism, and does not constipate the bowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference

It inhabits dry places, especially birchwoods, and pinewoods, having a bright red upper surface studded with brown warts; and when taken as a poisonous agent it causes intoxication, delirium, and death through narcotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

This was in 1860; but only four years afterwards we find the English physician quoted above, Dr. Anstie, in his "Stimulants and Narcotics," recognising "a kind of chronic narcotism, the very existence of which is usually ignored, but which is, in truth, well marked and easy to identify as produced by habitual excess in tea and coffee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

Such deceptions come through drunkenness and narcotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men] Reference

If there had been no narcotism there would have been no appearance of collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appendicitis] Reference

Yet the tincture is followed by a more rapid narcotism, but of shorter duration, and attended with more nerve disturbance at the onset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

It was uncertain whether cerebral hemorrhage had taken place, or the narcotism of the alcohol had combined with the disease and caused death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

Department and having the function of enforcing the provisions of the Harrison Act have long been convinced that there is a direct relationship between Radicalism and narcotism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Societies And Subversive Movements] Reference

This is the aesthetic variety of the malady, or rather, perhaps, it is only the old complaint robbed of all its pain, and lapped in waking dreams by the narcotism of an age of science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

But a double purging, or a double amount of narcotism, may have remote effects different in kind from the effect of the smaller amount, reducing the case to that of heteropathic laws, discussed in the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

One effect of alcohol is to paralyze the heat-regulating mechanism; the blood becomes overloaded with waste material, and the narcotism, and vasomotor paralysis, produced by the alcohol, is added to that produced by the heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

376 The word is from numbness, torpor, narcotism: the flowers, being loved by the infernal gods, were offered to the Furies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

"'I have thought that inequality of the pupils, that is to say, where they are not symmetrically contracted, is proof that a case is not one of narcotism, or morphine poisoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Bullet] Reference

"From what I see of the case," he ended, "narcotism is the only thing I should be much afraid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

"From what I see of the ease," he ended, "narcotism is the only thing I should be much afraid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)] Reference