Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. Original 1845 "Du Hachisch et du l'Aliénation Mentale: Études Psychologiques" = Hashish and Mental Illness: Psychological Studies by Jacques Joseph Moreau (a.k.a. Moreau de Tours). Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1845. Approx. 13 by 21.5 cm. viii + 431 pages. Half-leather and marbled boards, finely bound with gilt lettering on spine, endpapers and pastedowns are of grey wove paper. Original wrappers bound in. Extremely rare original 1845 French first edition of this rare and sought-after book. The author, psychiatrist, following a trip of several years (from 1836 to 1840) in the East, discovered the effects of Indian hemp (Cannabis) and studied them to support his conception of madness. He is the first doctor to have carried out a systematic work on the activity of drugs in the central nervous system and to have classified, analyzed and recorded his observations. He is the creator of the "Club des Hashischins" (1844-1849), a club where the effects of drugs such as hashish were tried, and which Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, among others, frequented, who then recounted his experience in "Artificial paradises". Hashish Cannabis Marijuana Light wear. Foxing on more than half the pages. Free shipping in USA.
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