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IT is difficult to regard this booklet as a serious contribution to medical literature. It consists of about four score small, narrow pages, about half of which are occupied by an account of the hallucinations and rhapsodies experienced by the author when under the influence of the drug Cannabis sativa. What the precise value of these observations is it is impossible to discover. It is no more practicable to subject them to rational or systematic analysis than to attempt to find reason or method in the incoherent ravings of delirium. The particular manifestations induced by Indian hemp must, of course, largely depend upon idiosyncrasy, temperament, antecedent and accidental conditions, and a host of predetermining and fortuitous causes, and must therefore vary from individual to individual and differ, too, in different circumstances even in the same individual.
An Essay on Hasheesh.
Including Observations and Experiments. By Victor Robinson. Pp. 83. (New York: “Medical Review of Reviews,” 1912.) Price 50 cents.
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An Essay on Hasheesh . Nature 91, 241 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091241b0
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