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1791. Sessions. [Friday] Dec. 16.

confined and when he was told it was for Murder, he knew nothing of it.
The Prisoner said he was afterward told there was in that cake a Drug call’d Mah-joom, which made men Mad or Drunk, that they did not know what they did.
Mah-joom is an Arabick word but what drug is meant by it I do not know. It is said to have a very sudden effect. Some people say it is bang or some composition of it.