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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