Phantastica - a classic survey of the use and abuse of mind-altering plants

PHANTASTICA
	PHANTASTICA
	CONTENTS
	FOREWORD PREFACE INTRODUCTION
	NARCOTIC SUBSTANCES
	EUPHORICA: MENTAL SEDATIVES
	PHANTASTICA: HALLUCINATING SUBSTANCES
	INEBRIANTIA
	HYPNOTICA: SOPORIFICS
	EXCITANTIA
	FOREWORD
	PREFACE
	INTRODUCTION
	General Remarks
	Motives for the Use of Narcotic and Stimulating Drugs
	The Importance of Mental Constitution in Relation to External Stimuli
	Tolerance and Habituation
	Immunity against Poisons
	NARCOTIC SUBSTANCES
	Mode of Action
	Classifications of Narcotic and Stimulating Drugs
	EUPHORICA: MENTAL SEDATIVES
	Opium: Morphia Opium and Morphia as Euphorics: Their History, Production, and Effect
	The Consumption of Opium and Morphia at the Present Day
	Morphinism
	The Observable Internal Process in Morphinists and Opiumists
	General Questions Connected with Morphinism
	Measures against the Extension of Morphinism
	Codeine and its Derivatives: Dionine, Heroin, Eucodal, Chlorodyne
	Codeine
	Dionine
	Heroin
	Eucodal
	Chlorodyne
	COCAINISM History of Coca and Cocaine
	Effects of the Habitual Use of Coca and Cocaine
	Cocainomania and its Forms
	The Problem of Sense-Illusions
	Anhalonium Lewinii History of the Plant
	Its Uses
	Hallucinations due to Peyotl
	Indian Hemp: Cannabis Indica
	The Extension of Cannabinism in Africa
	The Use of Hemp in Asia Minor and Asia
	The Effects of Indian Hemp
	Fly-Agaric: Agaricus Muscarius
	Character of Agaric Inebriety
	Solanaceæ
	Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)
	Hyoscyamus Muticus (Hyoscyamus Albus)
	Thornapple (Daturas Stramonium)
	Datura arborea
	Duboisia hopwoodii
	Banisteria Caapi
	Gelsemium Sempervirens
	The Loco Herbs
	IMEBRIANTIA
	Alcohol
	Remarks on Acute Intoxication
	Chronic Alcoholism
	Liquor Hoffmanni
	Chloroform
	Ether
	Benzine
	Nitrous Oxide
	HYPNOTICA: SOPORIFICS
	Chloral
	Veronal
	Paraldehyde
	SULPHONAL
	Potassium Bromide
	Bromural
	Kava-Kava
	Where and how Kava-Kava is drunk
	Preparation and Use of Kava-Kava
	The Active Substances of Kava and their Action
	Kanna
	EXCITANTIA
	Character of Excitants
	Camphor
	Betel
	History and Mode of Chewing Betel
	Effect of Betel-Chewing
	Kat
	Caffeine Plants
	Coffee
	History of its Use
	Cultivation and Use
	Effects of Coffee
	Tea
	The Kola Nut History, Origin, Distribution
	Effects of Kola
	Ilex Paraguayensis: Maté
	Ilex Cassine
	Pasta Guarana
	COCOA
	Tobacco
	Historical and General Information
	Its Modes of Employment Snuff
	Parica
	Arsenic
	Mercury
	Conclusion
	NOTES
	Introduction
	Narcotic Substances
	Euphorica: Mental Sedatives
	Phantastica: Hallucinating Substances
	Inebriantia
	Hypnotica: Soporifics
	Excitantia
	INDEX
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	Bromural
	Kava-Kava