A practical treatise on the history, medical properties, and cultivation of tobacco / by James Jennings.

  • Jennings, James (Illustrator)
Date:
1830
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Credit: A practical treatise on the history, medical properties, and cultivation of tobacco / by James Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gal, when Jean Nicot, being resident in the latter, from the King of France, Francis II. he sent it to the Queen Catharine de Me- dicis as a plant of the New World, possessing extraordinary virtues. It was, in conse- quence, called nicotiana, herb of the queen, &c. Gesner, in his Epistolce Medicinales, dated Nov. 5, 1565, relates some experi- ments which he made with it, and adds, that he heard it was called nicotiana by the French, from the name of the person who introduced it to them. He had then only learnt from Thevet that it was used for smoking in America. A very general opinion prevails that the plant was either brought from Virginia, or from South America; but Humboldt confirms the previous statement, that Europe received the first tobacco-seeds from Yucatan about the year 1559. We learn, from the same author that the cultivation of tobacco pre- ceded that of the potato in Europe, more than 120 years. When Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco from Virginia to England? in 1586, whole fields of it were already cul- b 2