On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or gunjah: Cannabis Indica Their Effects on the Animal System in Health, and their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and other Convulsive Diseases

This pamphlet contains a detail of facts of a very important kind, which, we doubt not, will cause a great sensation among the members of the profession throughout the world.We feel it, therefore, to be a duty to give as full an account of its contents as our space will permit.It will appear clearly from what we shall state that Dr. O'Shaughnessy has the merit of having added to our materia medica a drug of great and un- equivocal powers, and, probably, a remedy of marked efficacy in diseases hitherto the most unmanageable.For the sake of accuracy, in a matter of so much consequence, we shall avail ourselves, as much as possible, of the author's own words, and endeavour to communicate all the more important facts in a series of extracts from his pamphlet."The narcotic effects of hemp are popularly known in the south of Africa, South America, Turkey, Egypt, Asia Minor, India, and the adjacent territories of the Malays, Burmese, and Siamese.In all these countries hemp is used in various forms, by the dissipated and depraved, as the ready agent of a pleasing intoxication.In the popular medicine of these nations we find it extensively employed for a multitude of affections.But in western Europe its use either as a stimulant or as a remedy is equally unknown Much difference of VOL.X.