[Rarebooks] FS: 1919 Letter Promoting Cannabis as a Treatment of Insomnia

[Charles Agvent]

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) by the President of Dios Chemical Company 
Promoting the Use of Neurosine. St. Louis, 28 July 1919. A two-page 
letter to a doctor from the president of Dios Chemical Company, A. 
Chambers, promoting the use of Neurosine, "the safe soporific." Composed 
of several different drugs and herbs, including Extract Henbane, Extract 
Belladonna, and notably Extract Cannabis Indica, Neurosine was promoted 
as a hypnotic to treat insomnia with "no dangeous or habit forming 
drugs." According to the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 
"No physician would think of prescribing all of the drugs in Neurosine 
for any one condition. The Dios Company urges the use of this nostrum 
for a host of conditions and without due consideration of its potent 
constituents. Not content with recommending the promiscuous use of this 
already too complex mixture, the Dios Co. advises physicians to combine 
it with other drugs" (Jan. 9, 1915, page 165). Some wrinkling and 
edgewear. Very Good. (#019871)        $50

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