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known Counterblaste, and published a Commissio pro Tabacco, 
by which be placed a duty of six shillings and eight pence upon 
every pound imported into England, in addition to the custom 
of twopence which was before levied. Offenders against this 
act were liable to confiscation, fine and corporal punishment. . 
Even now the controversy is not extinct in England, but 
_ Tobacco appears to have the best of it, and in all other countries, 
except in the Wahabi territory, it reigns supreme, Nénak Shah 
indeed when he established the Sikh religion thought it neces- 
sary to forbid the use of something, and selected tobacco as 
the forbidden article, but, nevertheless; he allowed converts who 
been in the habit of using it to continue the practice. 
‘The author of the Makhzan- el-Adwiya states that native 
hysicians consider tobacco smoke to be disinfectant, and recom- 
d it for fumigating cholera patients. Taken in various 
iveness if inhaled fasting. The ashes of the 
oa paste with oilare a useful application to sores 
: revent bleeding. The water from the hookah 
s diuretic, ani the black oil which collects in the pipe stem is 
used on tents to heal up sinuses, and is dropped into the eye to 
cure night blindness and purulent conjunctivitis. Mir Muham- 
mad Husain closes his notice of Tobacco by remarking that 
cen — classes of English in India smoke the hookah, but in 
r own country they mostly take snuff, a few chew, andsmoke 
a (the author of the Malk:shzan wrote about one hundred and 
yenty years ago). Ainslie mentions the application of the 
es of Southern India. In the Concana paste made with 
souff, lime and the powdered bark of Calophyllum inophyllum 
plied i in orchitis. Dr. Leith of Bombay was in the habit 
a of Tobacco leaves to the spine in tetanus _ 
The use of Tobacco is very general amongst 
; mixture of Pobon0d and Gur (ovneaelaiagey be 
