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Eighth Colloquy: Bangue
1563; Portuguese edition 1891
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Garcia de Orta
Medicine, Cannabis
Ololiuhqui, Peyotl, and Teonanácatl in the Florentine Codex
Sahagún’s Book 11 on herbs that intoxicate
c. 1577
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Bernardino de Sahagún
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Ololiuhqui and Peyote in Idolatrías y supersticiones de los indios
Colonial anti-idolatry texts on divination, healing, and visionary plants
1629-1656; published 1892
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Pedro Ponce de León
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Hashish and Mental Alienation
Moreau de Tours on dawamesc, self-experiment, and experimental psychiatry
1845
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Jacques-Joseph Moreau
Psychiatry, Cannabis
Ayahuasca in Villavicencio's Geografía de la República del Ecuador
An 1858 Ecuadorian account of ayahuasca visions and divination
1858
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Manuel Villavicencio
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Caapi and Niopo in “On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco”
Richard Spruce on ayahuasca, yopo/paricá, and Amazonian medicine-men
c. 1870; published 1908
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Richard Spruce
Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnobotany
Anaesthetics Antient and Modern
An Historical Sketch of Anaesthesia
Undated (c. 1907–1910)
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Nitrous Oxide, Cannabis