Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering PlantsInner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1998 - 304 pagini Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist • The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world • Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and tobacco • A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present day The publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today. Until Lewin, books on the use of drugs were purely works of anthropology, concerned with how people used these plants, rather than how the plants produced their famous effects. Lewin, a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist, was fascinated by both, and Phantastica was the first book to bring scientific insights to a survey of the use of drugs around the world. Lewin traveled extensively and acquired an astonishing variety of knowledge, reflected in this book, which provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and, of course, tobacco. For thirty years ethnobotanists have bemoaned the fact that Phantastica has been impossible to find; now this landmark work is once again available. |
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... considered as a law that the state of custom or habit ceases to remain constant when the intensity of the instigating agent is suddenly augmented . This is what occurs if , for instance , the magnitude or the aspect of a danger to which ...
... considered as a law that the state of custom or habit ceases to remain constant when the intensity of the instigating agent is suddenly augmented . This is what occurs if , for instance , the magnitude or the aspect of a danger to which ...
Pagina 15
... considered , by virtue of its organization , as capable of destroying the toxic powers of the drug . Some centuries later Galen expressed other views . He relates how an old woman of Athens grew used to hemlock by consuming small ...
... considered , by virtue of its organization , as capable of destroying the toxic powers of the drug . Some centuries later Galen expressed other views . He relates how an old woman of Athens grew used to hemlock by consuming small ...
Pagina 20
... The hedgehog has long been considered as an animal extremely resistant to poisons . In fact , I have been able to prove that although it can endure large quantities of cantharides or the venom 20 PHANTASTICA Immunity against Poisons.
... The hedgehog has long been considered as an animal extremely resistant to poisons . In fact , I have been able to prove that although it can endure large quantities of cantharides or the venom 20 PHANTASTICA Immunity against Poisons.
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Cuprins
NARCOTIC SUBSTANCES | 23 |
CLASSIFICATION OF NARCOTIC AND STIMULATING DRUGS | 26 |
MENTAL SEDATIVES | 27 |
The Consumption of Opium and Morphia at the Present Day | 39 |
Morphinism | 45 |
The Observable Internal Process in Morphinists and Opiumists | 49 |
General Questions Connected with Morphinism | 53 |
Measures against the Extension of Morphinism | 56 |
NITROUS OXIDE | 171 |
SOPORIFICS | 172 |
CHLORAL | 174 |
VERONAL | 176 |
PARALDEHYDE | 177 |
SULPHONAL | 178 |
Bromural | 179 |
Where and How KavaKava is Drunk | 180 |
DIONINE HEROIN EUCODAL CHLORODYNE | 60 |
Dionine | 61 |
Eucodal | 62 |
COCAINISM | 63 |
Effects of the Habitual Use of Coca and Cocaine | 65 |
Cocainomania and its Forms | 67 |
HALLUCINATING SUBSTANCES | 75 |
ANHALONIUM LEWINII | 80 |
Its Uses | 82 |
Hallucinations due to Peyotl | 84 |
CANNABIS INDICA | 89 |
The Extension of Cannabinism in Africa | 92 |
The Use of Hemp in Asia Minor and Asia | 95 |
The Effects of Indian Hemp | 97 |
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS | 102 |
Character of Agaric Inebriety | 103 |
SOLANACEAE | 107 |
Henbane Hyoscyamus niger | 108 |
Hyoscyamus muticus Hyoscyamus albus | 109 |
Datura arborea | 113 |
Duboisia hopwoodii | 115 |
BANISTERIA CAAPI | 116 |
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS | 119 |
THE LOCO HERBS | 120 |
IMEBRIANTIA | 122 |
Chronic Alcoholism | 125 |
Alcoholism and Heredity | 126 |
Individual Toxic Disturbances in Alcoholism | 131 |
A Glance at Alcohol in the Past | 132 |
Alcoholic Beverages | 138 |
Temperance and Abstinence | 148 |
Conclusion | 159 |
LIQUOR HOFFMANNI | 161 |
ETHER | 165 |
BENZINE | 169 |
Preparation and Use of KavaKava | 182 |
The Active Substances of Kava and their Action | 185 |
KANNA | 187 |
EXCITANTIA | 189 |
CAMPHOR | 190 |
BETEL | 192 |
History and Mode of Chewing Betel | 194 |
Effect of BetelChewing | 197 |
KAT | 201 |
CAFFEINE PLANTS | 203 |
COFFEE | 205 |
Cultivation and Use | 209 |
Effects of Coffee | 211 |
TEA | 216 |
THE KOLA NUT | 223 |
Effects of Kola | 226 |
MATÉ | 229 |
ILEX CASSINE | 231 |
PASTA GUARANA | 233 |
COCOA | 234 |
TOBACCO | 237 |
Its Modes of Employment | 241 |
Chewing | 245 |
Smoking | 247 |
The Conquest of Mankind by Tobacco | 249 |
Its Good and Evil Effects | 253 |
Physical Disturbances due to Tobacco | 258 |
Substitutes for Tobacco | 262 |
PARICA | 265 |
ARSENIC | 266 |
MERCURY | 270 |
CONCLUSION | 271 |
NOTES | 274 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
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