"As a physician, Dr. William Edward Macklin saw the awful ravages of opium on mind and body: an addict would pawn or sell anything his family possessed, go hungry and let his family starve, even sell his wife or child to get the drug. He treated those who came to be cured with careful kindness, giving soothing medicines during the agony of withdrawal and tonics to rebuild the body afterward, and many were cured. Yet curing addicts did not satisfy him; he went back to "first causes": he fought the trade that brought the drug into China, sought to make poppy growing illegal, was an active member of an anti-opium society, wrote regularly for newspapers, and went to Washington to protest the way opium was being forced upon China."
— Edith Eberle (biographer)
Source: Edith Eberle, Macklin of Nanking (St. Louis: The Bethany Press, 1936), pp. 127–129
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