Drugs feature in the Nights and other specimens of popular fiction in two contexts . First, banj (either henbane or hashish) and opium are rather naïvely called upon by the storyteller as a kind of Mickey Finn, or early form of chloroform, available for the use of villains.

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Oil-firing was now becoming more expensive than coal and no more Claud Hamiltons were so fitted after No 1859; the apparatus was gradually removed from the engines so equipped, ….

[W]hat appears to at first glance to be a thinking problem can be a problem with sight or hearing. […] There's nothing wrong with your noodle; it's your sensory equipment that needs a bit of help. Learn to compensate.