FAMOUS HOMEOPATH ON HASHISH: ""CONSTANTLY SMOKE AWAY""! CHARLES GATCHELL (b. 1853) American medical doctor and homeopath University of Michigan professor and lecturer in the Homeopathic Medical College editor of ""The Medical Era"" for 20 years. Amazing content A.L.S. on Medical era letterhead 2pp. 8vo. Chicago Aug. 20 1889. In part: ""...In [my book] 'Haschisch' there are many facts and many actual experiences...It is possible for you to repeat everything there described. Rx: Get some of the extract of Cannabis Indica - the resinous extract...Fill a new pipe with dry hayseed; light it; on the end of a stick take up a little ball of the resin about as big as a large pea [sketch of pea-sized ball added]. Insert it into the midst of the burning hay seed and there let it melt while you constantly smoke away and draw the fumes. This you smoke and smoke...occasionally add a new ball of resin...you cannot overdo the matter. After smoking for half an hour more or less - possibly and hour - you will get the effects which vary greatly with different subjects. What your experiences will be it is hard to tell. You must try in order to find out..."". Interestingly the addressee an ancestor of our consignor later died of an opium addiction. Sold with a letter found in the same lot which we believe was written shortly after the ""treatment"". Two pieces.