Notes on the Effects of Morphine
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By Francis W. Peabody
From The Caring Physician
The Life of Dr. Francis W. Peabody
By Oglesby Paul
The following unpublished essay is “[a]n example of how FWP, the scientist/physician, used his terminal illness to make clinical observations on himself with his description of his reactions to injections of morphine. This document was completed in October, 1927, five days before his death, and is an unique and vivid record of one patient’s response to the powerful narcotic.” This is an extraordinary essay. Why it was never published is a great mystery; but may lie in the fact that morphine and its derivatives are a much-maligned drugs.. Herein, we see how it allowed FWP to be lucid and function masterfully until the end.