Ameer states that there are seven or eight _majoon_ makers in Calcutta; that sometimes, by special order of customers, he introduces stramonium seeds, but never nux vomica; that all classes of persons, including the lower Portuguese or “Kala Feringhees,” and especially their females, consume the drug; that it is most fascinating in its effects, producing extatic happiness, a persuasion of high rank, a sensation of flying, voracious appetite, and intense aphrodisiac desire. He denies that its continued use leads to madness, impotence, or to the numerous evil consequences described by the Arabic and Persian physicians. Although I disbelieve Ameer’s statements on this point, his description of the immediate effects of _majoon_ is strictly and accurately correct. Most carnivorous animals eat it greedily, and very soon experience its narcotic effects, becoming ludicrously drunk, but seldom suffering any worse consequences. _Historical Details--Notices of Hemp and its Uses, by the Sanscrit, Arabic, and Persian Writers._ The preceding notice suffices to explain the subsequent historical and medicinal details. I premise the historical, in order to show the exact state of our knowledge of the subject, when I attempted its investigation. Although the most eminent of the Arabic and Persian authors concur in referring the origin of the practice of hemp intoxication to the natives of Hindostan, it is remarkable that few traces can be detected of the prevalence of the vice at any early period in India. The Pandit Moodoosudun Gooptu finds that the “Rajniguntu,” a standard treatise on materia medica, which he estimates vaguely at 600 years date, gives a clear account of this agent. Its synonymes are “_bijoya_,” “_ujoya_,” and “_joya_,” names which mean promoters of success; “_brijputta_,” or the strengthener, or the strong-leaved; “_chapola_,” the causer of a reeling gait; “_ununda_,” or the laughter-moving; “_hursini_,” the exciter of sexual desire. Its effects on man are described as excitant, heating, astringent. It is added that it “destroys phlegm, expels flatulence, induces costiveness, sharpens the memory, increases eloquence, excites the appetite, and acts as a general tonic.” The “Rajbulubha,” a Sanscrit treatise of rather later date, alludes to the use of hemp in gonorrhœa, and repeats the statements of the “Rajniguntu.” In the Hindu Tantra, a religious treatise, teaching peculiar and mystical formulæ and rites for the worship of the deities, it is said, moreover, that _sidhee_ is more intoxicating than wine. In the celebrated “Susruta,” which is perhaps the most ancient of all Hindu medical works, it is written, that persons laboring under catarrh should, with other remedies, use internally the _bijoya_ or _sidhee_. The effects, however, are not described.