302 TiMEHRI. 



must be steeped in 50 parts of boiling water for twelve 

 hours, and before applying, flavoured with an alcoholic 

 solution of Gum benzoin, mastic and myrrh, equal parts. 

 This gives a flavour to common leaves resembling that 

 of Porto Rico tobacco. 



N.B. — But to this end the leaves of tobacco must be 

 well dried. 



How to make Tobacco Oil. 



Eight to ten lbs. of tobacco juice from leaves growing 

 next to the ground, mixed with two ounces of Olive oil and 

 boiled together until the juice is entirely boiled away, 

 will give five to six ounces oil of astonishing strength, 

 greenish of colour. 



Tobacco is also distilled in chemical tetorts to 01. 

 Nicotiana for which purpose no Olive oil is required. 

 Essence of 1 obacco, 



01 Nicotiana can also be disti'led, and is useful to arrest 

 bleeding, for fresh wounds, scrofula, tetter, ring-worm, 

 itches, bruises, tumours, bites of mad-dogs, &c., and for 

 removing warts, sciatica and lameness from horses. 



