The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-24
FILLED HIMSELF WITH HAsHIsH
Physicians Remarkable Experience
With a Dangerous Doug.
From the Neuo York Telegram.

cians anu persons who ike 70 go INTO deUall
as the watching of physiological action of
a drug. Much has been written of the in
huence OF opium upon the human system,
ana most persons know of its action in one
way or another. There is a drug known as
extractum cannibis Indic8. Extract of In
dian hemp. Hashish is the Arabian prepa-
ration OF the drug. In talking over the
subject OF the various actions of drugs
reporter was informed by physi-
clan Of the peculiar effect it had. He
said:
About half-past4 O'Clock in the after
noon the other day took considerable Of
the extract of cannibis lndice. | did not
notice any symptoms Immediately after
taxing the drug. At about O'Clock my
Office bell rang. [ was requested togo out on
| a professional call. | went, forgetting all
about the hemp which l had taken, prob
| ably because of the excited manner of the
person VINO came to see me, and his great
anxiety that | should come at once to the
| SIDE OF the person who was SICK. l saw the
| patient, ald while writing the prescription
l became totally oblivious TO all that was
gong on around me, and kept right on
| writing, without any check to or from the
ordinary series of mental &C connected with
the process When had finished writing
suddenly realized where / was, and upon
looking up | saw my patsnt sitting quietly
before me. 1t seeme1 to me that | had sat
| where | was for hours aud the idea pre-
sented itself that the drug had begun to act
and had thrown II into a state of trance,
during which | had been foolishly sitting
| before my astOnlsAed patient | was NOR
titled. hastily arose aud made profuse
apology for having remained SO long, but
was assured that l had remained but few
minutes.
AT about 9 returned to my residence,
tod Il thaf
| creaslng every minute. 1t was not sensu-
Gus feeling, in the ordinary meaning of the
| term, neither was it merely intellectual
| excltement,' but it was the opposite to de-
preston of spirits 1t did not come from
without; it was not connected with any
passion or sense. 1t was simply feeling of
the most elegant, heavenlylike joyousness /;
| the heart seemed tickled and highly amused
| and raised up high above all earthly trou-
bles, and my whole frame seemed to have
hidden loLg fare well forever to all sense
of WEAKNESS or fatigue of any kind, and
the mind ran wild with delight, free con-
stantly to leap from one idea to another,
entirely unbouuded by any laws of man or
| nature.
II had q feeling'as if it would be splendid
thing FOR me to laugh heartily if | could.
Then wanted to make signs with my fin
| gers and gestures with my arms. The desire
which was uppermost was to pick upon the
banjo and twist my mouth, and roll my
eyes like negro of the old Southern days.
| There was no wild delirium or noise, nor
any hallucinations of any kind. At no
time did l have any visions whatsoever that
can recall. While | was going through
the motions to which have alluded, was
sensible of the fact that | was acting in a
foolish manner. but / could not help it; all
| power of sef-cOntrol had passed away 1t
was scarcely a few minutes later when a
| peculiar feeling began to climb up my
limbs, followed by feeling of unrest, and a
fear crept over me that l had taken dose
that was too large tor me. began to walk
up and down the room, then | would run
out in the yard, back again to the house,
and then up one flight OF stairs and down
another.
My body felt warmer, my mouth and
throat seemed dry, my legs began to feel as
| II they belonged to some actor ON the stage
rather than mine. | felt my pulse. 1t was
strong, a little rapid, but quite full. An
underlined, horrible fear began crawling
over mo; fear OF impending death. sent
limbs continued. My legs felt like candy
beneath me- chewing gum legs would best
describe the sensations as near as anything
to which could compare them. Then
| began to have spells-times when the world
and myself were entirely apart. When
| came out of the condition it was not a blank
! to me, but rather a period of active but
aimleSs life. There was not any connection
| of thought in any Of these spells-they
seemed simply reveries, without any bind
ing, each mere sea of disconnected ideas
| The mind seemed TO be cleared from all the
| ordinary laws of association, SO that it
Jumped from idea to idea at perfect free
dom. The duration of thu frances seemed
to me to be of great length, when in reality
they were only a few seconds or a minutes
time. Seconds seemed hours, minutes
seemed weeks, hours seemed months and
months. Still, during the time which
elapsed between these feelings l was per
| fectly conscious.
81 would take out my watch and look at
it, and then after an hour or two again, as
| thought, would look at the watch once
more, only to find that hardly five minutes
had passed | would look at the face of
the watch with feeling Of intense disgust.
The minute hand seemed to have stopped
the second hand crawled and crawled around
in the slowest manner possible. Ii seemed
utterly useless for me to gaze at the watch,
that it would take eternity to move the
minute hand, and would give up in ut
ter dispair before thirty seconds had passed
by,
at the hall door waiting for my doctor to
come, and there tho spells would come on
bat | remained standing, Leaning up
against the doorway. After time | saw
n man approaching. whom | took to be the
doctor. The sounds of his footsteps told
me that he was walking rapidly, and he was
under street lamp, not more than a few
feot away from me, and yet he seemed to
be long distance off, and it was taking
him long time to reach the door of my
house 1t seemed as if he was just creeping
along Ny limbs then began to grow cold
and l went into my house. / remem Der
nothing more until | was aroused by the
doctor'shakng me. My mind seemed pretty
clear, and | could tell what | had gone
through. My limbs were numb, and felt
no pain when the doctor pinched me. When
] attempted TO walk upstairs my legs felt
like pillars of lead. The feeling of impend-
! ing death became more horrible. A voice
seemed to DO saying to mo: You are get
! ting worse You are getting worse! You
are dying! OF you are dying! Hal Har
was given an emetic, and this seemed TO re-
! lieve me.
"When awoke the next morning my
mind seemed to DO clear. There was no
after effect, such as sick stomach, head
ache, exc. A common mental phenome-
non is a condition OF double conscious
ness being some one else and yourself at
1 thp Sama time HenD is not "a dangerous