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germicidal action demonstrated in laboratory txperi- 

 ments Faith of our forefathers in tobacco'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 1666 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. 



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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 Effendi's 

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



