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which was prepared from dried dates and addition of bitter 

 herbs and myrrh. The court-poet Abu Nowas frequently men- 

 tions the khumar, the effect of excessive drinking, in his wine- 

 songs.7 When, in time, a stricter application of the prohibi- 

 tion had taken place among the people, other narcotic and 

 stimulating substances came more generally into use, as, for 

 instance, the chewing of the leaf of the kadi-shruh {catha 

 edulis), a plant which grows only in South-Arabia, and the 

 consumption of coffee. 



