Wasson, R. Gordon, and Roger Heim, et al.:

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LES CHAMPIGNONS HALLUCINOGÈNES DU MEXIQUE. ÉTUDES ETHNOLOGIQUES, TAXINOMIQUES, BIOLOGIQUES, PHYSIOLOGIQUES ET CHIMIQUES. First edition, the preferred issue with the color pictorial vignette mounted on the front wrapper and without the wrapper designation as the first volume of a serial publication in sequence of the Museum's Archives. An important chapter in the history of ethno-mycology, being a summary and analysis of the authors' findings concerning the use of the psilocybin mushroom as a healing agent and religious sacrament by curandera María Sabina Magdalena García among the indigenous peoples of Oaxaca. Herein appear Wasson's controversial photographs of Maria Sabina and her hosting of a velada.

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