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100 1 _aRobinson, Victor,
_d1886-1947
245 1 3 _aAn essay on hasheesh
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-02
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Medical Review of Reviews, 1912
653 _aCannabis
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/b29010226/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77838
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