842 On (he preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah. [Oct. 



in less than an hour gained their natural condition, and in two 

 hours he experienced himself perfectly well and excessively hungry. 



The first patient continued cataleptic till 1 a. m., when consciousness 

 and voluntary motion quickly returned, and by 2 a. m. he was exactly 

 in the same state as the second patient. 



The third man experienced no effect whatever, and on further 

 inquiry, it was found that he was habituated to the use of Gunjah in 

 the pipe. 



On the following day it gave me much pleasure to find that both 

 the individuals above mentioned were not only uninjured by the 

 narcotic, but much relieved of their rheumatism; they were dis- 

 charged quite cured in three days after. 



The fourth case of trial was an old muscular cooly, a rheumatic 

 malingerer, and to him half a grain of Hemp resin was given in 

 a little spirit. The first day's report will suffice for all. — In two 

 hours the old gentleman became talkative and musical, told several 

 stories, and sang songs to a circle of highly delighted auditors, 

 ate the dinners of two persons subscribed for him in the ward, 

 sought also for other luxuries I can scarcely venture to allude 

 to, and finally fell soundly asleep, and so continued till the following 

 morning. On the noon-day visit, he expressed himself free from head- 

 ache or any other unpleasant sequel, and begged hard for a re- 

 petition of the medicine, in which he was indulged for a few days, and 

 then discharged. 



In several cases of acute and chronic rheumatism admitted about 

 this time, half-grain doses of the resin were given, with closely 

 analogous effects ; — alleviation of pain in most — remarkable increase of 

 appetite in all — unequivocal aphrodisia, and great mental cheerful- 

 ness. In no one case did these effects proceed to delirium, or was 

 there any tendency to quarrelling. The disposition developed was 

 uniform in all, and in none was headache or sickness of stomach a 

 sequel of the excitement- 



Case of Hydrophobia. 



A case now occurred in which the influence of a narcotic, capable 

 either of cheering or of inducing harmless insensibility, would be 

 fraught with blessings to the wretched patient. 



On the 22nd November at 8 a. m. a note in English was handed to 

 me by my servant, entreating my assistance for the Hakim Abdullah, 

 then at my gate, who had been bitten by a rabid dog three weeks 

 before, and who feared that the miserable consequences of the bite al- 



