turesquely call a Katzenjammer: it has never upset my appetite or my digestion: and, although I cannot say that it has never temporarily interfered with my clearness of brain, I consider that I have been more than compensated by the delicious dreams which I owe to hachish for the short periods of muddle-headedness that may have resulted from the use of the drug.
I need not give any detailed account of my earliest experiments with the extract which I prepared for myself. Alexandre Dumas, in Monte Cristo represents his hero as unconcernedly giving a man half a teaspoonful, or thereabouts, of hachish. Had I taken as much, I fancy that I should have suffered for my rashness. Fortunately for myself, I was cautious, and began by taking a very little. Day by day I increased the quantity, but I experienced no effects, in spite of the fact that Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who introduced the drug into England, declares that in India natives are powerfully influenced by a half-grain dose. Late one afternoon, however, I swallowed six grains, dissolved in a spoonful of brandy. My pulse
