Cannabis Indica

Where are the pathogeneses of this drug to be found ?

In Allen's Encyclopaedia .

What is this drug ?

It is the Hashish or Indian Hemp ; a tincture is made from the dried herb tops.

What is its general action ?

Produces the most remarkable hallucinations and imaginations ; exaggeration of the duration of time and extent of space being most characteristic.

It lessens the sensibility of the pulmonary and urinary tracts.

What are its mental characteristics ?

Illusions as to time and space ; a minute seems thousands of years, and things a short distance off seem yards away.

What is the peculiar head symptom of Cannabis Indica ?

There is a sensation as if the head were opening and shutting along the vertex.