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conclusions about the efficacy of drugs. However, when we come to the visual arts we can only guess and suspect, for until modern times, no artist has written much about his experiment with drugs (the poet-painter Michaux did) and so we combine possibilities and probabilities to see where the power of imagination gives way to hallucination and the use of drugs heightened the artistic sensibilities. Hallucination, let us not forget can also be the result of ecstatic fervor and visions [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] have been identified with certain diseases of the nervous system such as epilepsy. In such instances we need not concern ourselves with the