THE MYSTERIES OF TOBACCO - 1851 - By: Rev. Benjamin I. Lane, 2008-07-01

Published in 1851:
In prosecuting this subject, we will attend first to the inquiry: What is Tobacco? It is, says the Encyclopedia Americana, "a nauseous and poisonous weed, of an acrid taste and disagreeable odor; in short, whose only properties are deleterious." Dr. [Joseph] Bigelow [1787-1879], in his American Medical Botany.

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