by Baron Ernst Von Bibra
(1855, 268 pgs, paperback)
Plant Intoxicants is s pioneering study of psychoactive plants and their role in society. it is one of the first books to examine the cultivation, preparation and consumption of the world's major stimulants and inebriants. Drawing on his own travel experiences as well as the writings of his predecessors, Baron Ernst von Bibra (1806-78) devotes a full chapter to each of seventeen plants, ranging from such mild stimulants as coffee and tea, through tobacco and hashish, to powerful narcotics and hallucinogens such as opium and fly agaric.