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APPLETON'S JOURNAL
A Magazine of General
Literature.
Vol. 2. -- 1869. -- Issue
23.
Effects of Hashish
by Captain E. Burton
I HAVE often taken the drug, rather for curiosity to
discover what its attractions might be, than for aught of pleasurable excitement
I have ever experienced. The taste of the potion is exactly what a mixture of
milk, sugar, pounded black pepper, and a few spices would produce. The first
result is a contraction of the nerves of the throat, which is any thing but
agreeable. Presently the brain becomes affected; you feel an extraordinary
lightness of head, as it were; your sight settles upon one object, obstinately
refusing to abandon it; your other senses become unusually acute --
uncomfortably sensible -- and you feel a tingling which shoots like an electric
shock down your limbs till it voids itself through the extremities. You may
stand in the burning sunshine without being conscious of heat, and every sharp
pain is instantly dulled. Your cautiousness and your reflective organs are
painfully stimulated; you fear every thing and everybody, even the man who
shared the cup with you, and the servant who prepared it; you suspect treachery
everywhere, and in the simplest action detect objects the most complexedly
villanous. Your thoughts become wild and incoherent, your fancy runs frantic. If
you happen to exceed a little, the confusion of your ideas and the disorder of
your imagination will become intense. I recollect on one occasion being
persuaded that my leg was revolving upon its knee as an axis, and could
distinctly feel as well as hear it strike against and pass through the shoulder
during each revolution. Any one may make you suffer agony by simply remarking
that a particular limb must be in great pain, and you catch at every hint thrown
out to you, nurse it and cherish it with a fixed and morbid eagerness that
savors strongly of insanity. This state is a very dangerous one, especially to a
novice; madness and catalepsy being by no means uncommon terminations to it. If
an assembly are under the influence of the drug, and a single individual happen
to cough or to laugh, the rest, no matter how many, are sure to follow his
example. The generally used restoratives are a wineglassful of pure lemon-juice,
half a dozen cucumbers eaten raw, and a few puffs of the hookah; you may
conceive the state of your unhappy stomach after the reception of these
remedies. Even without them you generally suffer from severe indigestion, for,
during the intoxication, the natural hunger which the hashish produces excites
you to eat a supper sufficient for two days with ordinary circumstances.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/1870/julien.htm
The Hemp Intoxicant:
Appleton's Journal
A Magazine of General
Literature.
1870
Scientific Notes (excerpts)
M. Stanislaus Julien claims to have discovered in an
ancient Chinese medical record, called "Kon-kin-i-tong," certain data
from which it appears that, as far back as the third century of our era, the
Chinese were in possession of an anęsthetic agent, which they employed for
producing insensibility during surgical operations. In a biographical notice of
Hoa-tho, who flourished under the dynasty of Wei, between the years 220 A.D. and
230 A.D., it is stated that he gave the sick a preparation of Cannabis (Ma-yo),
who, in a few moments, became as insensible as one plunged in drunkenness or
deprived of life. Then, according to the case, he made incisions, amputations,
and performed various other surgical operations. After a certain number of days
the patient found himself reėstablished, without having experienced the
slightest pain during the operation. It appears, from the biography of Han, that
this Cannabis was prepared by boiling and distillation. Be this statement true
or false, it will not lessen the honor due to Horace Wells, a statue of whom is
about to be erected in Hartford, Conn., though its truth would conflict somewhat
with the statement made in the Medical and
Surgical Reporter, in which the editor, commending the action of the
citizens of Hartford, says: "This is a well-deserved honor, for there is
nothing plainer or more capable of demonstration than that Horace Wells was the
first one who employed an anęsthetic in surgical operations."
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