Note 20 — APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE

Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 1: 359; cf. Explorations in Mexique, 181-82. It is a curious west-European mode of reasoning that leads one to expect in all psychic upsetments such as this the emergence of the sexual anxiety—more particularly in the case of peyote intoxication, which provokes marked fall of heart-beat, physical and mental depression at one stage, uncomfortable “stomach fullness” and acute nausea!