CHAPTER I.

Preparations of drugs and beverages ; some soporific, others for producing temporary imbecility. Circé ; Nepenthes. Delight- ful illusions ; fearful illusions ; involuntary revelations ; invin- cible courage, produced by meats and potions.- — The Old Man of the Mountains deceived his disciples by illusions : he pro- bably fortified them against torture by stupifying drugs. The use of them becomes habitual, and conduces to bodily insensi- bility and imbecility ... 1 —34