A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present day The publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today.Provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and tobacco.The first book to bring non-judgmental scientific insights to the use of drugs around the world.For thirty years ethnobotanists have bemoaned the fact that Phantastica has been impossible to find now this landmark work is once again available.Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist Lewin traveled extensively and acquired an astonishing variety of knowledge, reflected in this book, which provides detailed information on all major drugs of the time, including opium, cocaine, heroin, cannabis, peyote, fly agaric, henbane, datura, alcohol, kava, betel, coffee, tea, cocoa, and, of course, tobacco. Lewin, a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist, was fascinated by both, and Phantastica was the first book to bring scientific insights to a survey of the use of drugs around the world. Until Lewin, books on the use of drugs were purely works of anthropology, concerned with how people used these plants, rather than how the plants produced their famous effects.

The publication of Louis Lewin's Phantastica in 1924 began an era of ethnobotany that is still flourishing today.

A book credited with starting an era of ethnobotany that continues to the present day.

Long out of print, this is a landmark study on narcotic and psychedelic substances by a world-renowned pharmacologist and toxicologist ISBN 9780892817832 / 288-page paperback from Park Street Press Phantastica: A Classic Survey on the Use and Abuse of Mind-Altering Plants by Louis Lewin, M.D.

Phantastica by Louis Lewin