mescalinen.

1896 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 70 267 Alkaloïds of Anhalonium Lewinii, Hennings (Lophophora Lewinii, Rusby).—The dried ‘discs’ (Scheiben) of this cactus are used by the Indians of N. Mexico for the preparation of an intoxicant, and are brought into commerce under the name of ‘Muscale buttons’... They were extracted with 70 per cent. alcohol, and the residue obtained by evaporating this extract was extracted with ether and then with chloroform. The chloroform dissolved an alkaloïd which was named mezcaline.

1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 384/1 Mescalin.

1936 Mind 45 68 My first experience of a similar kind was during an experiment with mescaline.

1956 A. Huxley Heaven & Hell i. 11 The soul is transported to its far-off destination by the aid of..mescalin.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 17 The experiment he was helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of suburban housewives.

1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia ii. vi. 76 It's called Venus, and it's a synthetic version of mescaline with a few designer improvements.

1913 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 40 432 A mescalin hallucination is felt to be much more objective than a mere idea such as a visual image.

1941 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry (Chicago) 45 130 (title) Mescaline hallucinations in artists.

1958 Philos. Rev. 67 390 I am classifying the so-called mescaline hallucinations (or sensory images) here with hypnagogic-like images.

1992 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 335 3/1 Mescaline-like hallucinations..often precede temporal lobe seizures.]

1936 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 82 219 The authors themselves have pointed out, however, that matters are different in mescaline and hashish psychoses.

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour ix. 114 It is acute schizophrenia which most resembles ‘mescaline psychosis’, and Andis has described a number of psychotic patients whose reported experiences resembled mescaline psychosis more than the classical type of psychosis.