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IN a paper read before Section J (Psychology) of the British Association at Leicester, Dr. J. H. Quastel, director of the Research Laboratory, Cardiff City Mental Hospital, gave an account of recent experiments with narcotics. The evidence points to narcotics acting primarily by producing a state equivalent to anoxæmia at the particular parts of the nervous system where they are absorbed. Also the psychological effects of narcosis and of oxygen want are very similar to each other.
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Narcosis and Mental Function. Nature 133, 110–111 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133110b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133110b0