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PREPARED AT THE

LABORATORY OF TILDEN & CO.,

NEW LEBANON, N. Y.,

AND

98 JOHN STREET, NEW YORK CITY.


1858.


CANNABIS INDICA.

Indian Hemp, Foreign

The true Cannabis Indica is imported from India. It is cultivated largely in parts of Europe and Asia.


MEDICAL PROPERTIES.

Phrenic, anęsthetic, anti-spasmodic and hypnotic. Unlike opium, it does not constipate the bowels, lessen the appetite, create nausea, produce dryness of the tongue, check pulmonary secretions or produce headache. Used with success in hysteria, chorea, gout, neuralgia, acute and sub-acute rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia and the like.


PREPARATIONS.
Fluid Extract............................ Dose, 5 to 10 Drops.
Solid Extract............................ " 1 to 2 Grains.
Pills............................................. Half and One Grain.

TINCTURE OF CANNABIS INDICA.
Fluid Extract............................ Half Ounce.
Diluted Alcohol....................... Twelve Ounces.

Dose -- Half to one dram, and gradually increased in tetanus every half hour until the paroxysms cease or catalepsy is induced.


DRAUGHT OF CANNABIS INDICA.
Tincture of Cannabis Indica............. Half Dram.
Camphor Mixture................................ One-and-a-half Ounces.