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Sedatives valueless

A hypodermic injection of morphine is administered to a patient, and in twenty minutes the sufferer is qui- etly asleep. To him there is no longer any pain. Yet any physician - allopathic, homoe- opathic, botanic, eclectic - will tell you that the trouble- some material cause is unremoved, and that when the soporific influence of the opium is exhausted, the pa- tient will find himself in the same pain, unless the belief which occasions the pain has meanwhile been changed. Where is the pain while the patient sleeps?