Habits

troduction of the hypodermic syringe, the enlarged resources of modern pharmacy, and the publicity given to the prevalence of the "habit" in question by various writings, some avowedly of fiction, and others professing to be more or less records of fact, have, no doubt, been to a very large extent responsible for its increase ; but its foundation seems to repose upon a demand which is almost universal among mankind. In every climate, and among every people, experience has taught the lesson that there