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Date:          Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:36:09 -0500
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From:          brenda hammack <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:       Re: addiction
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Louis Lewin's _Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of
Mind-Altering Plants_ (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1998)
could be useful.  The book is a reprint of a 1924 work by a prolific
pharmacologiest.  Lewin is basically summarizing his work from the
1880s.  He covers opium, chloral, cocaine, heroin, morphine, hashish,
alcohol, kava-kava, coffee, tobacco, arsenic, and lots of other
substances that he classifies as euphorica (mental sedatives),
phantastica (hallucinating substances), inebriantia, hypnotica
(soporifics), and excitatia.

Brenda Mann Hammack
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