A TREATISE, 



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CHAPTER I. 



Of the Difcovery and Ufes of Tobacco. 

 OB AC CO, or Tabacco, is a me- 



dicinal plant, which remained un- 

 known to Europeans till the difcovery tff * 

 America by the Spaniards ; being firft im- 

 ported from thence about the year 1560. 

 The Americans of the continent called it 

 Petun; thofe of the iflands, Yoli. Her- 

 nandez de Toledo fent it into Spain from 

 Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, where he 



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