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secretion, and consequent want of narcotic power in that indigenous in 

 colder countries. 



In the subsequent article I first endeavour to present an adequate 

 view of what has been recorded of the early history, the popular uses, 

 and employment in medicine of this powerful and valuable substance ; I 

 then proceed to notice several experiments which I have instituted on 

 animals, with the view to ascertain its effects on the healthy system ; 

 and, lastly, I submit an abstract of the clinical details of the treatment 

 of several patients afflicted with hydrophobia, tetanus, and other con- 

 vulsive disorders, in which a preparation of Hemp was employed with 

 results, which seem to me to warrant our anticipating from its more 

 extensive and impartial use no inconsiderable addition to the resources 

 of the physician. 



In the historical and statistical department of the subject, I owe my 

 cordial thanks for most valuable assistance to the distinguished travel- 

 ler the Syed Keramut Ali, Mootawulee of the Hooghly Imambarrah, 

 and also to the Hakim Mirza Abdul Razes of Teheran, who have fur- 

 nished me with interesting details regarding the consumption of Hemp 

 in Candahar, Cabul, and the countries between the Indus and Herat. 

 The Pandit Moodoosudun Gooptu has favoured me with notices of the 

 statements regarding Hemp in the early Sanscrit authors on Materia 

 Medica ; — to the celebrated Kamalakantha Vidyalanka, the Pandit of 

 the Asiatic Society, I have also to record my acknowledgments ; — 

 Mr. DaCosta has obligingly supplied me with copious notes from the 

 * Mukzun-ul-Udwieh' and other Persian and Hindee systems of Materia 

 Medica. For information relative to the varieties of the drug, and its 

 consumption in Bengal, Mr. McCann, the Deputy Superintendent of 

 Police, deserves my thanks ; — and, lastly, to Dr. Goodeve, to Mr. 

 Richard O'Shaughnessy, to the late Dr. Bain, to Mr. O'Brien of the 

 Native Hospital, and Nobinchunder Mitter, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, 

 I feel deeply indebted for the clinical details with which they have 

 enriched the subject. 



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