Insanity Following the Use of Indian Hemp
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There is a special form of mental disease met with in India usually classed as Toxic Insanity which seems to have a direct relation to the excessive use of hemp drugs in any form. It has a definite train of sj'mptoms of a fairly uniform character; there is in the large majority of those affected no hereditary history of insanity, nervous disease or tubercle; the sufferers are men of every age (I have never heard of a
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