The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of Drugs Upon the Healthy Human Organism, Volume 2Boericke & Tafel, 1875 - Drugs |
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Page 462 - With every step the distance increased. I nerved myself as for a long pedestrian journey,". — Still the lights, the faces, the furniture receded. At last, almost unconsciously, I reached them. It would be tedious to attempt to convey the idea of...
Page 84 - Now came on the affection of the eyesight, every object growing dim, as though a cloud were between the eye and it. Sometimes objects appeared double, and with an undulating motion passed before the eye. I observed that by a strong effort of the will, a concentration of the nervous power, this paralysis of the retina might for a moment be combated ; but only to return with greater severity when...
Page 465 - Parthenon, lifted its spotless and gleaming columns of alabaster sublimely into a rosy air — like the Parthenon, yet as much excelling it as the godlike ideal of architecture must transcend that ideal realized by man. Unblemished in its purity of whiteness, faultless in the unbroken symmetry of every line and angle, its pediment was draped in odorous clouds, whose tints outshone the rainbow. It was the work of an unearthly builder, and my soul stood before it in a trance of ecstasy. Its...
Page 452 - ... suggested more or less coherent images. They presented themselves to me in a double form : one physical, and therefore to a certain extent tangible ; the other spiritual, and revealing itself in a succession of splendid metaphors. The physical feeling of extended being was accompanied by the image of an exploding meteor, not subsiding into darkness, but continuing to shoot from its centre or nucleus — which corresponded to the burning spot at the pit of my stomach — incessant adumbrations...
Page 36 - With these symptoms there was a peculiar feeling in the head, which is never felt except during the presence of fever — a sort of excitement of the brain, which is the preliminary, or rather the beginning, of delirium.
Page 465 - It was the work of an unearthly builder, and my soul stood before it in a trance of ecstasy. Its folded doors were resplendent with the glory of a multitude of eyes of glass, which were inlaid throughout the marble surfaces at the corners of diamond figures from the floor of the porch to the topmost moulding. One of these eyes was golden, like the midday sun, another emerald, another sapphire, and thus onward through the whole gamut of hues, all of them set in such collocations as to form most exquisite...
Page 466 - ... emerald, another sapphire, and thus onward through the whole gamut of hues, all of them set in such collocations as to form most exquisite harmonies, and whirling upon their axes with the rapidity of thought. At the mere vestibule of the temple I could have sat and drunk in ecstasy forever; but lo! I am yet more blessed. On silent hinges the doors swing open, and I pass in. I did not seem to be in the interior of a temple. I beheld myself as truly in the open air as if I had never passed the...
Page 595 - The anus itches and feels as if the skin was rubbed off (after forty-five minutes),3. — Desire for stool all day, though he had had a natural movement in the morning (third day),3. — Constant feeling of desire to pass a stool, and a sensation as if there was a quantity in the rectum, but I never had more than one regular stool every morning,2'.
Page 465 - Here, until the dissolution of all things, was I doomed to hold the lamp that lit that abysmal darkness, while my heart, like a giant clock, ticked solemnly the remaining years of time. Now, this hallucination departing, I heard in the solitude of the night outside the sound of a wondrous heaving sea. Its waves, in sublime cadence, rolled forward till they met the foundations of the building ; they smote them with a might which made the very topstone quiver, and then fell back, with hiss and hollow...
Page 601 - Dreamed that she could not get to sleep on account of thinking about the body I had embalmed ; thought she tossed about and then tried to wake me, to give her some medicine to stop thinking ; she thought she could not wake me, and pulled me out of bed ; and that I was bathed in perspiration, face pale ; thought I was dead. She could not at first be persuaded that she had been asleep. Gave her a dose of Nux and she dropped to sleep at once, and slept soundly.