CANNABIS SATIVA. 187 
1833, vol. ii. p. 404). For certain cases of disease Hemp has 
been recommended as a specific: if it be really such, it is so 
homeeopathically. Lonitzer says: ‘‘ Hemp-water is good for 
headache proceeding from heat ;” and a little further on he 
says: “the Hemp herb increases headache in those who 
deal in it” (Herbarium, Ulm, 1705). “Si quis in Cannabino 
agello diu sederit,” observes Lindenstolp ; “ aut dormiverit, 
non solum inde luscus evadit, sed etiam vertiginosa et ebrius, 
quod mihi ipsi puero sepius contigit” (Liber Venenis, edit. 
Stentzel, Francof. et Lips., 1739, p. 541). Junker confirms the 
same with the words: ‘‘ Intus summum ventriculum et caput 
gravat” (Compend. Mat. Med., Hal., 1760, p. 94). Zorn states 
that Hemp cumbers the head; and in another page that it 
alleviates headache vi narcotica, and conduces to sleep 
_ (Botanologia Medica, Berl., 1714, pp. 160, 161). Schroeder 
opines: “Some bind the emulsion, prepared from the seed, 
round the head; but they do wrong, for it causes silliness” 
(Arzneischatz., Nuremberg, 1693, p. 909). According to 
Chardin (Voyage en Perse, Amsterd., 1711, tom. iv. p. 208), 
pedestrian travellers in Persia, when exhausted, invigorate 
themselves with a beverage prepared from Hemp; but how 
great the paralytic debility and exhaustion is which Hemp 
itself causes, appears clearly from Hahnemann’s Register of 
Experiments, as also from Wibmer’s Report. — _ Herrmann 
observes of Hemp: “ Orgasmum geniture maxime compescit 
et propterea tanquam antaphrodisiacum laudatur” (Cynos. 
Mat. Med., Argentor., 1710, p. 178). Valentini says that 
Hemp-seeds are especially given against excessive concupis- 
cence, and that the emulsion may be prescribed for females 
having furor uterinus (Herbarium, Francfort, 1719, p. 567). 
Olearius, again, affirms exactly the reverse in the words: 
“ Perse existimant veneris desideria inde cieri et simul steri- 
litatem produci” (Travels in the East, p. 529, in Murray). 
Hence occurs the following passage in Schroeder: “ The 
seed hinders the birth-seed, if often used ; whereas the | 
