50 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



and we have clone. It is " an unguent to take away all 

 pains of the gout," made hy haking the ingredients for 

 five hours in a glass vessel : — 



Succi foliomni san. sanct. Indoruni, jviij. 



Axung. porci niasculi. 



Axung. caponis, ana unc. ii. Misce. 



" What is a more noble medicine, or more readie at 

 hand, than Tobacco ? " asks this author ; and his view 

 of its virtues was taken afterward in a more ambitious 

 volume, by Dr. John Neander of Bremen, whose quarto 

 volume entitled Tabacologia was published at Leyden 

 in 1622, and who prescribes its use in a multitude of 

 recipes after the fashion of those just given for almost 

 all the diseases of life ; it should be noted, however, 

 that it is never used without admixture with other 

 good and powerful medicaments.* 



Sir Walter Raleigh is the popular hero English 

 tradition has chosen as the originator of smoking 

 among ourselves. He certainly made it fashionable, 

 sanctioned it by his custom, and gave it " a good 

 standing in society ; " but it seems to have been intro- 

 duced by Mr. Ralph Lane, who was sent out by 

 Raleigh as governor of Virginia, returning to England 

 in 1586. The historian of the voyage, Mr. Thomas 

 Harriot, and the learned Camden, who both lived at 

 the period, unhesitatingly affirm that Lane has the 

 honour of being the original English smoker.f The 



* Dr. Everard had published at Antwerp in 1587 a similar work. 



t Pennant, in Tour in Wales 1810 (yoI. ii. p. 151), speaking of Captain 



