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.

  • Adam Clarke
Date:
1798
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 2 ] fore in the Eaft Indies, and at Brazil and Flori¬ da.* The Americans of the Continent call it Pctun, thofe of the I Hands Toii. (< Mr. Pourchot in his Philofophy, fays, The Portugese brought Tobacco info Europe from Tobago an I Hand in North America : — but in this he is miftaken ; for the I Hand of Tobago was never under the Portugese dominion. Tobacco feems rather to have given its name to that I Hand. The Inhabi¬ tants of Hifpaniola call Tobacco Cohiba, and the inftrument by which they frnoke it, Palace. It is probable that from this alone the herb in queftion derived its prefent name. Pababides is a- village in Greece, fo called becdufe the pipes ufed in fmoking Tobacco, were manufactured there.’* Alartiniere, Did. Art. Tabaco, Its botanic name Nfcotiatia, it received from Mr. John Nicot, Ambalfador from Francis II. at the court of Portugal, who in 1560 coming to the knowledge of it by means of a Flemifh mer¬ chant, prefented fome of it to the Grand Prior, on his arrival at Lifbon ; and afterwards on his return to France* gave fome to Queen Catharine dc Medicis : whence it was called the Grand Prior's Herb, and the Queen's Herb. But An¬ drew Thcvet of Angouleme, Almoner to Queen Catharine de Medicis, difputes this honour with Mr. Nicot, and it appears probable, that this % f - k > * Mr. Savary aflferts, that Tobacco has been known among the Pcrlians for upwards of 400 years: and fuppofes that they received it from Egypt, and not from the Eaft Indies, where it has been cultivated only fince the commencement of the 17th Century. DiEhonnairc Univcrfcl de Commerce, a Geneve, lH*' 1 . * . ■ J _ y Gentleman