Narcotism, the craving for narcotic or stimulant drugs, and its subvariety, alcoholism, has been found most often among the thymocentrics.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
Slightly and seldom as the Golden Circle touches the lines defining personal or social morality-carefully as the Founder has abstained from imposing an ethical code of his own, or attaching to his precepts any rule not directly derived from the fundamental tenets or necessary to the cohesion of the Order-he had expressed in strong terms his dread and horror of Narcotism; the use for pleasure's sake, not to relieve pain or nervous excitement, of drugs which act, as he said, through the brain upon the soul.
"Across the Zodiac"
Percy Greg
It inhabits dry places, especially birchwoods, and pinewoods, having a bright red upper surface studded with brown warts; and when taken as a poisonous agent it causes intoxication, delirium, and death through Narcotism.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie