heck the bronchial secretion. The complaints in which it has been specially recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity, and uterine hemorrhage. Many eminent British and American physicians recommended marijuana as an Effective therapeutic agent. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household, reported in Lancet in 1890, for example, that he had been prescribing cannabis for thirty years and that he considered it "one of the most valuable medicines we possess" Sir William Osler, professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins and later Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford, stated in his 1898 discussion of migraine headaches that "marijuana is probably the most satisfactory remedy" for that distressing condition.* * Others who recommended marijuana for migraine headaches included the Committee on Cannabis Indica of the Ohio State Medical Society (1860); Dr. G. S. D. Anderson in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (now the New England Journal of Medicine) (1863); Dr. Edward John Waring in his textbook, Practical Therapeutics (1874); Dr. C. W. Suckling in the Britis Medical Journal (1881); Dr. J. B. Mattison in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1891); and Dr. A. A. Stevens in his textbook, Modern Materia Medica (1903). (We are indebted to Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya for a number of these and other historical references to the medical history of marijuana.) To meet the substantial nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical demand for marijuana, fluid extracts were marketed by Parke Davis, Squibb, Lilly, Burroughs Wellcome, and other leading firms and were sold over the counter by drugstores at modest prices. Grimault and Sons actually marketed ready-made marijuana cigarettes for use as an asthma remedy. As medicine progres...
