Chapter 10
Jekyll's escalating doses and the failed batch of salt — 'the original supply was impure, and... it was this unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught' — frame his condition in pharmacological terms.
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Modern readers often interpret the transformations as a model of addiction — initial pleasure, escalating need, loss of control, destruction.
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