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The Danger of Sedatives

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 21.

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The Danger of Sedatives.

THE Popular Science Monthly gives this warning on the important matter of using sedatives for the little ones: "One of the great dangers attending the use of the various sedatives employed in the nursery, is that they tend to produce the opium habit. These quack medicines owe their soothing and quieting effects to the action of opium, and the infant is by them given a morbid appetite for narcotic stimulants. The offering for sale of such nostrums should be prohibited, as tending to the physical and moral deterioration of the race. In India, mothers give to their infants sugar-pills containing opium, and the result is a languid, sensual race of debauchees. In the United States the poisonous dose is administered under another name; but the consequences will probably be the same."