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Seems like the fungus might do it:

"Potent Druggs to alter or Exalt Imagination, Waking, Memory, and other functions, and appease pain, procure innocent sleep, harmless dreams, etc." And "Pleasing Dreams and physicall Exercises exemplify’d by the Egyptian Electuary and by the Fungus mentioned by the French Author."




Do we have any idea what, specifically, the Egyptian electuary or the fungus were?




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