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

by W. B. O'Shaughnessy

FOOTNOTES:

[1] For very fine specimens of churrus, I have to express my thanks to Dr. Campbell, late political resident at Nipal.

[2] By this term is probably meant the first of the Sassanian dynasty, to whom the epithet of “Khusrow” or Cosroes, equivalent to Kȧiser, Cæsar, or Czar, has been applied in many generations. This dynasty endured from A.D. 202 to A.D. 636.—Vide note 50 to Lane’s Translation of the Arabian Nights, vol. ii. p. 226.

[3] Handbuch der Medicin und Pharmac. Botanik, von F. Ness von Esenbeck und Dr. Carl Ebermaier, vol. i, p. 338.

[4] Although I observed no effect from two drachms of hemp resin given to a horse, Messrs. Hughes and Templar, of Calcutta, have since cured four horses of traumatic tetanus by giving half-pint doses of the tincture.—W. B. O’S.

[5] The nurse, I should have mentioned, was changed early in the illness, and change of air resorted to on the river, but in vain.