came from India and was of recent growth. Having procured my raw material, I carefully picked out the flowering tops of a number of fine plants, and macerated them in spirit; pressing out, distilling, and evaporating the result to the consistency of bird-lime. I thus obtained a viscous dark-green mass, of a peculiar odour and bitter taste. This resinous extract is the foundation of bang, and is known in different parts of Asia as canop, churrus, chutsao, ganjah, gindshi, hachish, majum, malach, sjarank, and subjah, and in South Africa as dacha.
I dare say that English doctors are for the most part ready to confess that they know very little about the drug. They use it occasionally, perhaps, but they have not learnt to trust it and why? because the hemp-resin that is commonly obtainable in this country is very bad, or, at least, very variable in quality. The chemists who procure it forget to ask whence it comes, and, when they have once prepared it, either in the form of an extract or as a tincture, they keep it, possibly for years,
