warm and cosy library, furnished with snug carpets, rugs and lounges, and with a piano. No one, however, should take hachish without first having taken counsel with his medical man; for the drug affects divers people in divers ways. We are told by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, that in England he has given ten or twelve grains with impunity, and has seen no effects produced, and Dr. Fronmüller considers that eight grains form the smallest useful dose when it is sought to bring the patient under the full influence: but Dr. Garrod and others are of opinion that a much smaller quantity is sufficient in the majority of cases. What, therefore, may be innocuous to one may be well-nigh fatal to another and the only method of arriving at the proper dose is by a series of careful experiments.
While a man is under the full influence of the hachish be can enjoy little save a contemplative kind of dolce far niente. He may imagine that he is moving about, and, perhaps, vigorously exerting him self; but the chances are greatly in
