580 USE OF THE CANNABIS INDICA IN TETANUS. 
ease showed itself ten days after the accident, and was attended 
with all the usual symptoms of this distressing affection. 
The treatment was commenced by the exhibition of cathartic 
medicine and laxative enemas, with the use of counter-irri- 
tants to the spine. These measures were speedily followed 
by the administration of the Ext. Cannabis Indica in a 
draclim-and-a-half dose, twice a day, under which the animal 
recovered in about six days. Mr. Fulton considers that this 
agent deserves a more extended employment in veterinary 
practice. 
[In Johnston’s 6 Treatise on Narcotics’ it is said that ff in 
India the resinous exudation of the hemp-plant is collected in 
various ways. In Nepaul it is gathered by the hand in the 
same way as opium. This variety is very pure, and much 
prized. It is called momeea , or waxen churrus . It remains 
soft, even after continued drying; has a fragrant narcotic 
odour, which becomes strong and aromatic on heating. Its 
taste is slightly hot, bitterish, and acrid, yet balsamic. In 
Central India, men covered with leather aprons run back- 
wards and forwards through the hemp- fields, beating the 
plants violently. By this means the resin is detached and 
adheres to the leather. This is scraped off, and is the ordinary 
churrus of Cabul. It does not bring so high a price as the 
momeea. In other places the leather aprons are dispensed 
with, and the resin is collected on the naked skins of the 
coolies. In Persia it is collected by pressing the resinous 
plant on coarse cloths, and afterwards scraping the resin 
from these, and melting it in a little warm water. The 
churrus, or “kirs,” of Herat is considered one of the best 
and most powerful varieties of the drug. 
The plant itself is often collected and dried for the sake of 
the resin it contains. The whole plant gathered when in 
flower, and dried without the removal of the resin, is called 
gunjaJ). In this form it is sold in the markets of Calcutta in 
bundles about three inches in diameter, and containing each 
twenty-four plants. The larger leaves and seed-capsules 
separated from the stalks are called bang , subjee, or sid/iee. 
This form is less esteemed than the gunjah. The tops and 
tender parts of the plant, the flowers, and even the pistils of 
the flowers, are separated, and when dried alone are very 
powerful, and much esteemed. The seeds, I believe, are never 
used as a narcotic indulgence. In some medical works they 
are spoken of as cramp-stilling and pain-removing; but if 
they really possess these virtues, it must be in a very inferior 
degree ; and they probably reside in the husk, and not in the 
body of the seed itself. 
