I write on this article to apprise or warn people of the fact that it should not be used as much as it is. It should be used only in extreme cases, such as pain from cramps and neuralgia, wounds, mashed and broken bones, and then should be used in very light doses. It is a deadly poison in large doses, and mothers do a very foolish act when they give their babes Godfrey's Cordial, Bateman's Drops, or Paragoric. Children have been killed by their improper use. All the above preparations are strongly charged with opium, and should only be given by a good physician who understands when they should be used. Opium locks up the bowels, and causes a person to become yellow, or of a bilious, swarthy color, from the fact that the bowels are locked up and the bile thrown off by the liver is reabsorbed into the blood, when it should escape with the discharge of the bowels. If long taken it will produce insanity, and destroy the brain and nervous forces, then when the person goes without it, they will go blind, faint and fall.