An essay on tobacco : comprising a brief history of that plant, and a view of its effects on the human constitution, when employed as an article of luxury : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Anti-Tobacco Society / by J. Smyth Rogers.

  • Rogers, J. Smyth (John Smyth), 1794-1851.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An essay on tobacco : comprising a brief history of that plant, and a view of its effects on the human constitution, when employed as an article of luxury : delivered as a lecture before the New-York Anti-Tobacco Society / by J. Smyth Rogers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the pit, that is bottomlesse. Hear also as our farther apology the puzzling, contradictory lines of a man,* who was bidding farewell to what he seemed equally to love and to fear. Stinking'st of the stinking kind- Filth of the mouth, and fog of the mind, Africa that brags her foyson, Breeds no such prodigious poison : Henbane, nightshade, both together, Hemlock, aconite, -Nay rather Plant divine, of rarest virtue, Blisters on the tongue would hurt you: 'Twas but in a sort I blamed thee; None e'er prospered, that defamed thee. The native region of those species of tobacco which form an article of commerce, is America. Brazil and Florida may more especially claim the credit, such as it is, of its origin. When the Spaniards first visited this country, they found the herb in use among the aborigines, who designated it by the name petun, or petema, an appellation which was long retained in Europe. The modem title Tobacco, was conferred on it by the Lamb,— Farewell to Tobacco.