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“The term ‘morphinism,’ or morphine disease, is used in this work to include all forms of opium disease. In fact, it is intended in most instances to be the equivalent of narcotic disease. While sixteen alkaloids have been isolated from opium, morphine is present in so much larger quantities, and is so much more potent than any of the other alkaloids, that practically all the medicinal or narcotic effects of that drug are due to the alkaloid morphine.” - George Pettey, The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment (1913)