The seven sisters of sleep: popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world / [M.C. Cooke].

  • Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: The seven sisters of sleep: popular history of the seven prevailing narcotics of the world / [M.C. Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sleeping, others swearing, others smoking tobacco ; and in the chimney of the room were two bushels of broken tobacco-pipes.” Good friend Lilly, what wouldst thou have thought of a visit to a Studenten Kneipe, where a crowd of students, amid fumes dense as a London fog in November, scream and growl the well-known song— “And smokes the Fox tobacco 1 And smokes the Fox tobacco ? And smokes the leathery Fox tobacco ? Sa! Sa! Fox tobacco. And smokes the Fox tobacco. “ Then let him fill a pipe ! Then let him fill a pipe ! Then let him fill a leathery pipe ; Sa ! Sa! Leathery pipe. Then let him fill a pipe !” And then perhaps—but let the reader enquire for himself of some descendant from the ancestors of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller, the worthy head of the long-pipe faction. In 1601, tobacco was carried to Java, whence it spread over the East. It was also conveyed to Turkey and Arabia m the beginning of this century. El-Is-hakee states that the custom of smoking tobacco began to be common in Egypt between the years of the flight, 1010 and 1012 (a.d. 1601-1603). And from Persian writers on J\fateiia medica, it appears to have been introduced into India in A.n. 1014 (a.d. 1605), towards the end of the reign of Jcla- ladeen Akbar Padshaw. From India, tobacco probably found its way to the Malayan Peninsula and China; although Pallas, Loureiro, and Kum- phuis think that tobacco was known in China before the discovery of the New World, and that