Hefter, A.

Japanese: Hefter,A.(英語表記)HefterA
Hefter, A.

...Indians in Mexico and the southwestern United States have been using peyote, made by cutting the top of the cactus and drying it, since the mid-16th century to experience the presence of God. In 1890, H. Ellis and W. Mitchell studied peyote, and in 1896, Arthur Hefter (1860-1925), a professor of pharmacology at the University of Berlin, and Louis Lewin (1850-1929), a leading researcher in psychotropic drugs, isolated the active ingredient mescaline. They took the crystals the following year, 1897, and confirmed that they experienced extremely variable, multicolored geometric patterns and visions, nausea, dizziness, and a distorted sense of time. ...

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Japanese:

…メキシコやアメリカ南西部のインディアンが,このサボテンの先端を切って乾かしたペヨーテを食べて神の実在を体験するために,16世紀中ごろから使用していた。1890年,エリスH.EllisとミッチェルW.Mitchellがこのペヨーテを研究し,96年,ベルリン大学薬理学教授のヘフターArthur Hefter(1860‐1925)と向精神薬研究の第一人者のレビンLouis Lewin(1850‐1929)が有効成分のメスカリンを分離した。彼らは翌97年にその結晶を服用したが,変転きわまりない多色の幾何学模様や景色の幻視,吐き気,めまい,時間感覚のゆがみなどが起きることを,そのときに確かめている。…

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