A provincial medical journal had reported in 1842 on hemp resin in convulsive disorders, citing William O'Shaughnessy's work in Calcutta, and in January and February 1843 it gave its front pages to his revised findings. O'Shaughnessy, on leave from India, spoke at a crowded meeting of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society. Over the following decades British doctors tried cannabis for period pains, in labour, for migraine and in asylums.[1]
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People · Irish physician in India · 1809–1889William O'ShaughnessyAn Irish doctor in Calcutta who tested Indian hemp on animals, himself and his patients, and in 1839 brought cannabis into Western medicine as a remedy for pain, spasm and convulsions.
Language · English, from botanical LatinIndian hempThe name under which the British Empire, and then the world, first brought cannabis under control. It survives in the statute books of dozens of countries that have nothing to do with India.
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References
- Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800–1928James H. Mills · Oxford University Press · 2003 · pp. 69–74 · ISBN 0-19-924938-5
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