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Show Drug Causes User to Sleep Standing. A mysterious eastern drug, the analysis anal-ysis of which has baffled the chemists chem-ists of this state and city for weeks, has been discovered in large quantities quanti-ties in Boston by the New England Watch and Ward society, writes a Boston Bos-ton correspondent. A chemist, who has studied Oriental drugs, is to undertake an analysis after aft-er inoculating cats with the drug solution. solu-tion. The drug, which Is said to have been discovered at a number of places in this city, is believed to be the same as mentioned In the "Arabian Nights," and frequently referred to in the "Ve-das" "Ve-das" and in the "Zend-Avesta" and "L'panichads." Agents o fthe society found the drug when on the lookout for the illegal sale of the drugs. It is of a brownish brown-ish tinge and not unlike a plug of tobacco to-bacco in appearance. It is said to be used both in smoking and by injection injec-tion or internally in solution. Opium tests on animals make them lie down and go to sleep, but this drug causes the animal experimented upon to go to sleep standing up. |