Labels:screenshot | text | black OCR: Cannabis as a Medicine in the 19th century During it's heyday, from 1840 up to 1900, more than 100 papers were published in the western medical literat recommending it for various illnesses and discomforts. uscle Cannabis was used for its properties as an analgesic, a 1 relaxant, for its capacity to stimulate appetite, and as an anesthetic. The medicinal use of cannabis was in decline by 1890. The potency of cannabis preparations was too variable, cannabis and therefor the individual responses to orally ingested seemed erratic and unpredictable. Another reason for the neglect of research on the analge properties of cannabis was the greatly increased use of opiates after the invention of the hypodermic syringe in the 1850s, allowing soluble drugs to be injected for Last pain relief; hemp pr ...
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