111-ToKH \[, NOTE. _'7 



23. 



< >ne of the most valuable works to be consulted on the subject of early Opium- 



AmanitaUt 



smoking, its connexion with tobaooo-omoking, and the opium trade as it existed at 



tin end of the seventeenth c'ontury, is the Amccnitates exotica of K.EMPFER. Some 

 :n this \\ork. recording his observations on tobacco, hemp, and Opium, 

 will now !>< They were first pulilished in 1712, but the original notes from 



which they were compiled were taken 20 years earlier. 



" Nicotiana ante sesqni ciiriter secula toti antique orbi, adeoque et Persise. 

 eo-pit a Lusitanis transvectorihus innotescere. Nomen ubique habet tabaci, et count 

 piM dis-erso gentium idiomate tobak, tabacco, tombak et tembakit, ab insula hujus 

 tioiiiinis Americana, iju:i- herk-f eopiam inventoribus dederat. Plantoe vix nomen 

 innotiienit, (juin simul cultura celebrari ubique coeperit, et fumandi usus omne 

 hiiinanuiii irrims stnpenda velocitate incantaverit. Plantam, Hyosciami speciem si 

 negamus, ex classe tamen venenatanim nequaquam eximenda fuerit ; cum vertigines, 

 anxietates et vomitus, quos fumigata in non adsuetis concitat, malignitatis testes 

 sint luculenti. Experimentis Redianis constat, olei ejus guttulam recenti immissam 

 vulneri, pullos volucrium enecare, hominibus vero inferre periculosa symptomata. 

 Viili hajulos circa Casanam Tartaria3, qui perforatum cornu bubulum foUis plenum, 

 su|>.'i -posit is carbonibus, paucis haustibus evacuabant ; ex quo instar epilepticonim 

 prosternebantur, pituita spumoque diffluentes. Quam vero venenata sint folia, 

 corn m tamen fumus consuetudine homini fit familiaris, ut, non modo non noceat 

 nalignitate sua, sed benigniori sale serum ex capitis recessibus eliciat, ac cerebrum 

 hilaritate impleat. Quod ut prsestet felicius, Persae fumum trahunt per machinam, 

 acjua ultr.i dimidium plenam, quse foetidum et cerebro inimicum sulphur imbibens, 

 fumum transmittit ab omni malignitatis acrimonia defsecatum, frigefactum et 

 sinccrum. Machina ilia, quam t ]jj$ khaliaan vel khaUuun vocant, ampulla est 

 lipedalLs altitudinis, vitrea, oblongo donata collo; cujus orificium claudit orbiculus 

 16, in sesquipalmarem diametrum expansus, duos in medio permittens tubulos 

 invi.-em adsolidatos, aeneos ; unum, cujus inferior pars in ampullam demissa, aqu.-e 

 immergitur ; superior recipit nicotiance cum impositis carbonibus retinaculum, in- 



