A briefe and accurate treatise, concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco, which very many ... doe too too licentiously use / [Tobias Venner].

  • Venner, Tobias, 1577-1660
Date:
1621
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Credit: A briefe and accurate treatise, concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco, which very many ... doe too too licentiously use / [Tobias Venner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Abriefe and accurate Treatife , concerning the taking of the fume of Tobacco, which very many in tbefe day.es doe too too li- ccncioully vfc. HE hearbe To bacco is of much antiquicie and reputati¬ on among the Indians of A~ ! merica. It is alfo called Nicoti¬ an^ but neither this nor that is the name that the Indians ' giue vnto it: for it was called ' Tobacco by the Spaniards, by reafon ofan Ifland fo named, which abounded with this hearbe: and by the Frenchmen, Nicotian, ofthenameof oncNicot> that firftgaue the intel¬ ligence thereof vnto them. But the Indians call it retun, or Fttum y which indeede is alfo the fitted: name that both wee and other Nations may call it by, deriuing it of Peio, for it is farre fetcht and much defired. And thus much for the name. As touching the temperature and faculties of B it