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.
- Brailsford, Edward, -1856
- Date:
- 1799
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![am For the firft five minutes there was an aromatic warmth diffufed all over my throat, which foon extended itfelf to my ftomach, and continued thus for the firft quarter of an hour, In fifteen minutes I experienced a little naufea, which was promoted on the twenty-fifth minute; on the thirtieth mi- nute my pulfe was greatly increafed, both in tenfion and frequency ; a confiderable moifture appeared on my fore- head, and a flight degree of dizzinefs attended, which con- tinued until near the fortieth minute. | | On the forty-fifth minute, the fymptoms abated, and my pulfe was diminifhed both in fulnefs and frequency. At the expiration of the hour, I felt a kind of languor, and my pulfe was reduced to its natural ftandard. Soon after every inconvenience difappeared, and I dined with my vba 4 hi ExPERIMENT 2, On the fame evening, two hours after eating a little bread and milk, I took forty drops of a ftrong infufion* of the dried leaves of tobacco; my pulfe beating fixty-eight ftrokes ina minute, its natural ftandard. . : ET Oe ee BERT fe peer eT ne ey In | Min, ee ee ne P. beat Regie ier Are LRA naS | SATS ce oe LES PE SETS seer ST EE EE A NY a SRS ee Ce In 45f{ 50] 55|60]65]70] 75] Min. Pebeat 1791 751711791 70 | 68 | 68 | * Two drachms of the dried leaves of tobaceo were infufed in two ounces of water, for 94 hours, and then ftrained off.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32885945_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
