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INDIAN HEMP. 
with ginger and cinnamon, in different proportions, therefore 
not very reliable, may be imitated by mixing the powder of 
the leaves with sugar and mucilage of gum tragacanth, so as 
to form cakes—the resinous extract, best in pills; a tincture 
made by dissolving the extract in ten to twenty parts of 
alcohol, and an emulsion of the resin. Churrus, the pure 
exudation of the plant, is used like the extract, but rarely 
met with in commerce. Externally the resin is applied en- 
dermatically, or in the form of embrocation, with oils, oint¬ 
ments, chloroform, &c.; also in injections. 
Physiological experiments on healthy persons, instituted 
by Landerer, Beron, Rech, Wolff, Judee, Schroff, myself, and 
others, show more or less disturbance in the digestive tract; 
affection of the nervous system, with convulsive movements 
and sudden shocks ; congestion to the brain ; confused ideas; 
excited imagination, with frequently changing pictures ; 
torpor, and sleep—the cerebral symptoms being more con¬ 
stant, while the others vary to a great extent, sometimes 
nothing being mentioned but a few confused ideas, followed 
by sleep. Fumigations with haschisch produced in two con¬ 
sumptive patients, first, some excitement, then a short sleep, 
without any important narcotic symptoms afterwards. 
The effects of hemp are combated by the same means as 
those of opium; vegetable acids, coffee, emetics, cold ap¬ 
plications, leeches to the temples. Landerer recommends 
sea-water, Cayenne pepper, salted victuals, caviar, strong 
coffee, and, as an emetic, the sulphate of copper. At Vienna, 
lemonade and coffee proved of good service. O’Shaughnessy 
gave acids in large doses. 
The long-continued use of Indian hemp induces prostration, 
dropsy, and sometimes a liability to sudden fits of mania, 
with great inclination to destroy and ruin. This, however, I 
think more ascribable to the alcohol mixed and taken with 
the haschisch, than to the latter. The cataleptic fits of the 
Indian jugglers are also explained through the agency of 
hemp, though it occasions such fits extremely seldom. 
During the short time since its use as a medicine has be¬ 
come known in Europe, hemp has been extensively employed, 
and mostly as a calming, antispasmodic remedy. 
[Various diseases are enumerated in which the remedy has 
been exhibited, and the author concludes with the following 
results of his experience :—] 
As an external remedy, I have used hemp many hundred 
times to relieve local pains of an inflammatory as well as 
neuralgic character. 
Judging from my experiments, I have to assign to the 
