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168 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



of smoking through fictile tubes, if indeed the habit 

 was not introduced from that of the savages, for he 

 also notes that our Captain Greenfield says the Vir- 

 ginians used tubes of clay for smoking. Le Sieur Bail- 

 lard, in his Discours du Tabac (12mo. 1668), says of the 

 English : " Ces derniers ont invente les pipes de terre 

 cuite, qui ont cours aujourd'huy par tout le monde." 



In p. 120 of the previous chapter we have noted the 

 large increase of tobacco-smoking during the Great 

 Plague of London.* Pepys notes in his curious Diary, 

 another use he made of the herb. He says the 7th 

 of June, 1665, was "the hottest daythat ever I felt in 

 my life. This day, much against my will, I did in 

 Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a 

 red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon 

 us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being 

 the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever 

 saw. It put me in an ill conception of myself and my 

 smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco, 



* Dr. Willis, who constantly visited the sick during the Great Plague, 

 and has left us a treatise upon it, says, p. 18, that the virtue of tobacco as 

 a preventive was so great, that no tobacconist's houses were infected, "nor 

 indeed those who smoaked tobacco, especially if they smoaked in a morning, 

 for the smoak of this plant secures those parts which lie most open (viz. 

 the mouth, nostrils, &c), and at once intercept and keep the contagion that 

 floats in the air from the brains, lungs, and stomach. It also stirs the 

 blood and spirits all over, and makes them shake off any contagion that 

 may adhere to them." Diemerbroeck, the Dutch physician, in his Essay 

 on the Plague, relates that he smoked for his own preservation whilst he 

 attended the sick at Nimeguen ; about 10 o'clock in the morning he smoked 

 a pipe of tobacco, and after dinner two or three more, and the like again 

 after supper ; and if at any time he found himself affected by the sick 

 people, he had immediate recourse to his pipe of tobacco, which he always 

 found an effectual preservative. 



