Hemp (Ganja) Smoking in Tetanus on a New Principle

1 st.?The tincture of the Indian hemp being a preparation of Ganja, some practitioners used it by the stomach rather than the fumes of the dried leaves by the lungs ; and the result invariably was unsatisfactory. The same may be said of opium and chloroform. The effect of Opium (Golee) smoking is instantaneous, and more lasting than that of opium eating. Similarly chloroform acts faster, and longer by inhalation than when taken by the stomach. 2nd.?When the drug is used as an auxiliary, or secondary to some other potent drug, of known efficacy, its effect is either unnoticed or a proper trial is not given to it. 3rd.?When Ganja smoking is ordered for a patient 3 or 4 times a day, or every 3 or 4 hours, it generally fails to produce the desired effect, because in most of these cases, when the effect of the drug wears away, the patient suffers the torture of repeated fresh attacks of clonic spasms, before the time for administering a fresh dose of the drug arrives.