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Lewin, Louis

It does not fit well into any existing pharmacological class. Louis Lewin, the father of psychopharmacology called vision inducing drugs phantastica . Let us dust off this venerable term and recycle it by calling Salvia divinorum a phantasticant . [Pg.21]

Louis Lewin S. Weir Mitchell Havelock Ellis... [Pg.298]

It was Louis Lewin, of Phantastica fame, who first suggested that banister-ine might be useful in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. And it was Kurt Beringer, of der Meskalinrausch fame, who ran the first clinical study using banisterine on 15 patients with postencephalitic parkinsonism, in 1928. Other studies reinforced the virtues of this drug. Initially, doses of 20 or 40 mg were... [Pg.36]

Louis Lewin (1850-1929) took peyote to Europe and initiated scientific investigations into its properties in the late 1880s. [Pg.205]

Louis Lewin went to the heart of this matter when he sorted through the many extraordinary aspects of the mescaline experience and declared the most important one to be "modifications of the spiritual life which are peculiar in that they are felt as gladness of soul. Huxley called it "without question the most extraordinary and significant experience this side of the Beatific Vision ... [Pg.235]

The acute and chronic effects of kava were first described by the 19th-century German toxicologist Louis Lewin (3) in his book Phantastica (1924). [Pg.2837]

Aronson JK. Louis Lewin—Meyler s predecessor. In Aronson JK, editor. Side Effects of Drugs Annual. Amsterdam Elsevier, 2004 27 xxv-xxrx. [Pg.2839]

Since Louis Lewin s Phantastica (6) the first comprehensive survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, a large body of information has accumulated on plants that have an effect on the CNS. A thorough treatment of such plants and their active constituents falls outside of the scope of this review they can be found in many recent reviews (8-11). [Pg.325]


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