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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 12 December 1941
[I Ching hexagram] 20.
1 3/4 woke 241 [asthma symptoms] bad M&A[tropine] phlegm
4 1/4 aperient worked well.
6 1/2 and again. Some 241 (1)[Heroin] faint, nauseated,
Coramine[1] & Brandy at 7 1/2 (2) still 241
9 1/2 (3)[Heroin] A1 all AM good lunch.
4 o’c (4)[Heroin].
Choked in hot carriage after blackout.
8 o’c (5)[Heroin].
Talked well. All happy.
Train late: left Ch[ipping] C[ampden] at 5 PM Train jammed with soldiers. My first class carriage had only 3 & myself, & I was not asked to pay excess! Corridor quite innavigable.
Got taxi through GWR Hotel. All went at 10.
1—Coramine is a circulatory stimulant and was used in the mid-twentieth century as a medical countermeasure against tranquilizer overdoses.
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