''Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise'', also known as ''Mescaline Intoxication, its History and Manifestation'', is a

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about the

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Kurt Beringer that was published in 1927. Mescaline became commercially available in 1920 following its first

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in 1919. In 1921, Beringer started clinical studies of mescaline, administered it to more than 60people, mostly doctors and medical students at his clinic, and studied its psychological effects, especially its

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s. He published his findings in ''Der Meskalinrausch'' in 1927. Beringer, in his monograph and in other publications, was the first to comment on similarities between mescaline intoxication and

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symptoms, describing the effects of mescaline as "experimental psychosis". After its publication,

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used Beringer's data to conduct the first phenomenological analysis of psychedelic effects. He published his findings in his own monograph ''Mescal: The Divine Plant and Its Psychological Effects'' in 1928.

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Der Meskalinrausch, seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise (1927) - Kurt Beringer
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