02651cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000330012624500250015926400510018430000470023533600260028233700260030833800360033450000310037050801840040152015760058553400690216165300130223085600510224385600430229477838UtSlPG20260610134814.0mcr n260607r20261912utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a12029394  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aRC1 aRobinson, Victor,d1886-194713aAn essay on hasheesh 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-02  aCarol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aAn essay on hasheesh by Victor Robinson is a medico-historical essay with case studies written in the early 20th century. The book investigates the intoxicating hemp plant as a narcotic: its botany, chemistry, pharmacology, medical uses, and cultural history, alongside first-person experiments that illustrate its subjective effects.

The book opens with a sweeping tour of materia medica, then narrows to cannabis: its global habitat, cultivation and resin collection, diœcious botany, seed and fiber uses, and government controls. It recounts ancient and medieval references (from Greek and Sanskrit sources to the Assassins), the modern medical revival via O’Shaughnessy, and the uncertain chemistry behind its active principles. Robinson outlines physiological actions, therapeutic indications, official preparations, and sample prescriptions, stressing its variability and noted absence of a lethal dose. The core narrative is a set of vivid experiments: a brother’s delayed onset of hilarity and verbal play; a court stenographer’s grandiose “comet” reverie and monomania about “the great idea”; a critic’s unstoppable, protean laughter with time distortion; and the narrator’s own night of celestial music, weightless flight, erotic visions, brief nausea, and a luminous afterglow. An appendix records a subject’s double-consciousness and altered sense of time; the work closes with a sonnet, blending scholarship, anecdote, and lyricism into a concise portrait of hasheesh’s powers and limits. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Medical Review of Reviews, 1912  aCannabis4 uhttps://archive.org/details/b29010226/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77838