An essay on hasheesh : including observations and experiments / by Victor Robinson.

  • Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.
Date:
1912
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Credit: An essay on hasheesh : including observations and experiments / by Victor Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a bit of dust on his conjunctiva. Cse- sar had a fever—and the eye that awed the world did lose its lustre, and the tongue that bade the Romans write his speeches in their books cried like a sick girl. Our flesh is heir to many ills, and alas when the heritage falls due. Even pride and prejudice are then forgotten, and Irishmen in need of purgatives are willing to use rhubarb grown on English soil, while the Foreign Colombo gathered by the feral natives in the untamed forests of Quilimani is consumed by ladies who never saw anything wilder than a Fa- bian Socialist. The modern descendant of Hip- pocrates draws his Materia Medica from the uttermost ends of the earth: linseed from busy Holland and floret- ted marigold from the exotic Levant; cuckoo’s cap from little Helvetia, and pepper-elder from ample Brazil; bit- ing cubebs from spicy Borneo and fringed lichens from raw-winded Ice- land; sweet flag from the ponds of Burmah, coto bark from the thickets of Bolivia, sleeping nightshade from the woods of Algeria, brownish rha-