NOTES 
Abbreviations : 
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AGN: Archivo General de la Nacién, ramo Inquisicion. 
AB: Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran: Medicina y Magia, 1955, Mexico. 
(A thoughtful monograph with numerous quotations from 
AGN, indispensable for every student of its subject. ) 
Vide, e.g., AGN, vol. 340, folios 354-359. 
The Caribs were also called Canibs or Calibs. From ‘Canib’ the 
English-speaking world derived ‘cannibal’, which is preferred by 
it to ‘anthropophage’. Shakespeare in his 7'empest took his foul 
monster Caliban from the ‘Calibs’. 
There is a well known sentence in Sahagin, Bk. X, Chap. XXIX, 
2, that is usually read as follows: ‘Hay otra hierba como tunas 
de tierra que se llama peyotl. . . ° According to Professor Charles 
E. Dibble, the Florentine Codex, folios 129v—-130r, reads thus: 
‘Ay otra yerva, como turmas de tierra, que se llama peyotl. . .° 
Turmas is a Spanish word of ancient lineage and obviously makes 
sense. It was more familiar in Mexico in Sahagtin’s time than 
now. Vide Joan Corominas: Diccionario Critico Etimologico de la 
Lengua Castellana, entry turmas. 
AB, Chap. 7, Area Cultural and Foco de Difusién. 
a) Lewis Lewin: ‘Uber Anhalonium Lewinii’, Arch. fiir experim. 
Path. und Pharma., 24:401: 1888. In translation this article 
also appeared in the same year inthe Therapeutic Gazette, Lon- 
don. In these initial articles there was a misunderstanding 
about which species of cactus peyot/ was. 
b) Havelock Ellis: “A Note on Mescal Intoxication.” The Lancet, 
No. 3849, June 5, 1897. 
c) S. Weir Mitchell: “Note upon the Effects of Anhalonium lew- 
inii.’ Brit, Med. Journal, Dec. 5, 1896. 
After their initial papers these three authors continued writing on 
the subject in books and articles. Lewin in his 1888 paper did 
not report on human experiences with peyot/: the first such report 
appeared in The Therapeutic Gazette, on Sept. 16, 1895: ‘Anhalo- 
nium Lewinii (Mescal Buttons), A study of the drug, with espe- 
cial reference to its physiological action upon man, with report 
of experiments’, by D. W. Prentiss and Francis P. Morgan. 
Vide Weston La Barre: “I'wenty years of peyote studies’, Cur- 
rent Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1960. 
AB, Chap. 7, Etimologia. 
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