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germicidal action demonstrated in laboratory experi- 

 ments — Faith of our forefathers in tolmcco's all-healing 

 properties — Particularly as a destroyer of insect life on 

 plants and animals — Liebault's account of Nicot's 

 introduction of tobacco into France and experiments on 

 old sores and wounds — Fame of throughout Portugal, 

 France — Catherine de Medici plants seeds of in her 

 garden — George Buchanan's distrust of anything which 

 bears her name — Italy's first instalment of the weed 

 received from Spain — Spenser in the Faerie Queene 

 speaks of ' divine tobacco ' — William Lyly calls it the 

 'holy herb nicotian' — Henry Battes on tobacco as a 

 dietetic — Dr. Gardiner describes its use in medicine — 

 Harleian Miscellany on tobacco — Dr. Thorius's Hymnus 

 Tabac — Pepys' experience with tobacco — Dr. Willis on 

 its prophylactic effects in the plague of i666 — Dr. 

 Diemerbroech finds it kills contagion during plague in 

 Holland 1635-6 — Coleridge in Cologne — Medical pro- ^ 

 fession's changed attitude towards tobacco — Mr. Solly, 

 of St. Thomas's Hospital, proclaims a crusade against 

 smoking — Dr. Murray at a later date speaks highly in its 

 favour from army experience — Private McCarthy's quiet 

 pipe in the hospital yard — Soldiers' experiences in South 

 Africa — Government's changing practices in regard to 

 contraband tobacco — Soldiers sent out in troop-ships 

 have first claim. 



CHAPTER VI . . ,95 



ON THE ANTIQUITY OF TOBACCO-SMOKING 



The beginnings of history — Ancestor worship — Man's instinctive 

 craving for narcotics and stimulants — Ancient historic 

 allusions to smoking or burning of vegetable substances — 

 Lieut. Walpole's account of an Arabic MS. which came 

 into his hands at Mosul — Nimrod a tobacco-smoker — 

 Assyrian cylinders in the British Museum— Noah a 

 smoker, a Greek Church tradition — The Moslem sage 

 and the origin of the tobacco plant — Eulia Efiendi's 

 story of a tobacco pipe found in an old wall — Tobacco un- 



