HERB - On Tobacco

[Christine A Seelye-King]

This just got posted to our Kingdom list in response to a question, and I
thought it might be of interest here. 
Christianna

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From: Mark Mettler <mettler at bulloch.net>
To: meridian-ty at egroups.com
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 06:49:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [TY] Re:Help on Tobacco

Excerpted Dates from "This Smoking World" (1927), by A. E. Hamilton, The
Century Co., New York

Of earliest tobacco history in October of 1492 Columbus was given
"Certain Dried Leaves" but they were discarded.  The first European
believed to have smoked was Rodrigo de Jerez in November of 1492 who was
introduced to the weed in what today would be considered a cigar while
in China. Robert Pane, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his
second voyage in 1493, writes the first report of native tobacco use to
appear in Europe in 1497. Then, in 1570, a medical book claimed first
botanical book on tobacco is written by Pena and Lobel of London.  In
1571 Dr. Monardes of Spain lists 36 maladies smoking tobacco cures but
it is considered a drug not a general use item.  The English get wind of
the book in 1577 and Frampton translates Monardes into English. European
doctors look for new cures--tobacco is recommended for toothache,
falling fingernails, worms, halitosis, lockjaw & cancer. (By now it's
becoming addictive and at this point and the church passes a law against
smoking in public places.) So by 1585 Sir Francis Drake introduces
smoking to Sir Walter Raleigh in England.  Smoking then becomes a
chartered business under the authority of the fellow whos' pipe tobacco
cans are the basis of jokes I told as a kid.

Here is a great web page on the
subject.http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
I did a paper on the history of tobacco a few years ago, maybe I should
dig it out and submit it to RUM.



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Ld. Gryffri de Newmarch
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