Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is addicted to the use of morphine.
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Examples
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No patient, not even the morphinist, is so skillful in deceiving his friends and even the physician.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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In our discussion of the mental symptoms I reported as an illustration of the suggestive treatment of the drug passion the case of a morphinist.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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The way in which the average physician nowadays neglects the simple tool of suggestive treatment, when it can be used for the protection of society, is perhaps nowhere so reckless as in the case of the morphinist and cocainist.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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To prescribe drugs is always quicker than to influence the mind; to cure a morphinist by hyoscine needs less effort than to cure him by suggestion.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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