1800-1950 / Walter E. Dixon

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The Physiological Action of the Alkaloids Derived from Anhalonium Lewinii
Academic Article, September 1899

Physiological Action of Anhalonium Alkaloids

A pharmacologist at St Thomas's Hospital reports systematic experiments on Anhalonium alkaloids using frogs, cats, dogs, and rabbits, combined with self-experimentation. Dixon's account is more clinically restrained than Weir Mitchell's or Ellis's but adds music-color synaesthesia and comparisons to cannabis and strychnine.

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