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Tobacco - Physiological effect

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  • A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.
  • A man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Coloured etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • One man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco / By Edward Brailsford.
  • A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.
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    Tabacologia: hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica. Vel eius præparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis ... / per Iohannem Neandrum Bremanum, philosophum, & medicum.

    Neander, Johann, approximately 1596-approximately 1630. | Date: M.D.CXXII. [1622]
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    Cigarette smoke condensate : preparation and routine laboratory estimations / by H.R. Bentley and J.G. Burgan.

    Bentley, H. R. (Herbert Ripley), 1922- | Date: 1959]
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    Ueber Tabaksamblyopie und verwandte Zustände / von J. Hirschberg.

    Hirschberg, J. (Julius), 1843-1925. | Date: [1878]
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    Tobacco : its history, nature, and effects on the body and mind ... / By Joel Shew.

    Shew, Joel, 1816-1855. | Date: 1850
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    A dissertation on the use and abuse of tobacco : Wherein the advantages and disadvantages attending the consumption of that entertaining weed, are particularly considered. Humbly addressed to all the tobacco-consumers in Great-Britain and Ireland, but especially to those among religious people .... / By Adam Clarke.

    Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832. | Date: 1798
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