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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
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Subject: Re: What is "Dowam Meskh" ?
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Message-ID: <1993Jun13.175755.10120@news.eng.convex.com>
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 17:57:55 GMT
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In article <1vflgm$6t@sun.Panix.Com> newsome@panix.com (Richard Newsome) writes:
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>In a 19th Century book I found a reference to an Egyptian drug called
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>"Dowam Meskh", which the author says he tried in Paris in the 1850's.
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>Can anyone identify this?
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An arab confection containing mostly Hashish. Theophile Gautier
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mentions it in "Le Club des Hachichins". By the way, a number
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of Gautier's works are available in english, I recommend them
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highly. The folks who regularly read this group would like
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his works, Gauthier was rather fond of recreational pharmaceuticals
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it seems. ;-)
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>The author says that the compound is prepared in Cairo, and that he took
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>18 grains. In describing his experience he says it "perfectly illuminated me"
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>and to write him for more information if desired.
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Can't get it in Cairo without risk anymore. . . try Amsterdam
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the coffee houses should be able to set you up for illumination. ;-)
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But remember as ol' Theo would have said: "Ceci vous sera defalque
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sur votre portion de paradis".
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smg
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