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[Mind-altering drugs] LINNAEUS, CARL von [praeses] & ALANDER, OLOF REINHOLD [respondent]. Dissertatio academica, sistens inebriantia. 
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Uppsala, (1761/1762). 4:o. 26 pp. Disbound and closely trimmed in the upper margin. The title page with several small stains. Foxed throughout. Date added in manuscript in ink to the title.
"The first recognizably modern inventory of mind-altering drugs" (Mike Jay, High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture, 2010). The title page is printed with the dissertation year MDCCLXI (1761); however this copy, as well as Linnaeus's own copy, of the dissertation has an "I" added in manuscript after the date, indicating 1762. The dissertation discusses a wide range of intoxicating substances, divided into the categories "natural," "artificial," and "mythological." Among the twenty "natural" drugs are, for example, opium, which Linnaeus states "dispels anxiety, sorrow, and fear of danger, and induces cheerfulness, laughter, forgetfulness, foolishness, and frenzy"; cannabis, which produces "cheerfulness and intoxication"; and thorn apple (Datura stramonium), which causes the user to disregard "the vices they commit." The "artificial" category includes various alcoholic beverages, while the final category, "mythological," includes, among other things, nectar, the drink of the gods.
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