476 NICOTIANA TABACUM. 
smoking in Constantinople, was conducted 
through the streets of that city with his pipe 
transfixed through his nose. 
~ Even in this country, where the use of Tebac- 
co originated, we find our puritanic ancestors 
guarding against its abuse by salutary statutes. 
In the old Massachusetts colony laws is an act 
laying a penalty upon any one “who shall smoke 
tobacco within twenty poles of any house ;” or 
who shall “take tobacco in any inn or common 
victualling house, except in a private room, so as 
‘that neither the master of the said house nor any 
other guest shall take offence thereat.’—In the 
earliest records of Harvard University soon after 
its foundation, is a regulation of this kind. “No 
scholar shall take tobacco, unless permitted by the 
president, with the consent of their parents and 
guardians, and on good reason first given by a 
physician, and then in a sober and private man- 
Wer2’61) ac ; | i 
While the legal authorities in various parts of 
the world took upon them to control the abuse 
of this fascinating weed, the literati of different 
countries entered warmly into the discussion of 
its merits and its faults. Among its advocates 
were Castor Duranti and Raphael Thorius, both of 
whom wrote Latin poems expressly in its praise. 
