The hasheesh eater : being passages from the life of a Pythagorean / Fitz Hugh Ludlow ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Rachman.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow was a recent graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, when he vividly recorded his hasheesh-induced visions, experiences, adventures, and insights. During the mid-nineteenth century, the drug was a legal remedy for lockjaw, and Ludlow had a friend from whom he received a...

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Main Author: Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870
Other Authors: Rachman, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
Series:Subterranean lives.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Note on the Text; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Night Entrance; Chapter 2: Under the Shadow of Esculapius; Chapter 3: The Kingdom of the Dream; Chapter 4: Cashmere and Cathay by Twilight; Chapter 5: The Hour and the Power of Darkness; Chapter 6: The Mysteries of the Life-sign Gemini; Chapter 7: The Night of Apotheosis; Chapter 8: Vos Non Vobis
  • Wherein the Pythagorean is a By-stander; Chapter 9: The Shadow of Bacchus, the Shadow of Thanatos, and the Shadow of Shame.