Description: Narcotic Plants And Stimulants Of The Ancient Americans, by William E. Safford, 38pp article, plus 17 full-page plates, salvaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1916. The author was Economic Botanist at the U. S. Department of Agriculture. From the opening paragraph, "The use of narcotic plants and stimulants was widely spread in both North and South America long before the discovery, not only for the purposes of exhilaration or intoxication, but also in connection with the practice of necromancy and in religious rituals and ceremonies accompanying the initiation of boys into the status of manhood." Includes tobacco, cohoba, the red bean, peyotl, ololinhqui, jimson weed, huaca-cachu (a tree Datura), coca, aya-huasca, yerba-mate, cassine, guarana, and cacao. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce.
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Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Author: William E. Safford
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Topic: Narcotic Plants
Year Printed: 1917
Original/Facsimile: Original
