VIRGINIAN TOBACCO.

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W" 1 covered, near the fire; afterwards take out the seeds, and

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Se them in a stone mortar: return them, when bruised, to the liquor,e,, en ' J °il down to four pints, and strain the liquor while hot. Lastly,J? |r y f ’ ra ’' e to a proper consistence, L. and D. —The directions of thec 0!lv ° Ur ffh College are as follows:—Take the seeds of stramonium, anyeril( ‘nt quantity; grind them well in a coffee-mill. Rub the powdera thick mass with proof spirit; put the pulp into a percolator, and» v rn, t proof spirit till it passes colourless; distil off' the spirit, and

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above modes of preparation, that of the Edinburgh College is

»cr> , 8 the best, as yielding a more efficient preparation. The product,• LOr din s • - - ' ~ " • '

i to the London and Dublin process, is about 12 per cent.

•^te^ er ’ ^^ serv - on the Dub. Pharm.) Recluz ( United States Dispensat.)a] c h that 16 ozs. of the seeds yield 2 ozs. 2 drs. by maceration in diluteat °1 : this is about 14 per cent. The dose of extract of stramonium,g ra( j e commencement, is about a quarter of a grain, which should be2 Ua % increased until some obvious effect is produced.

^^\% NCTUnA Stuamonit, Ph. United States . — (Stramonium seeds,tC e <Uv.; Proof Spirit, Sxxxij. Macerate for fourteen days, and filterct ea ^h paper). Dose tttx. to tqxx. twice or thrice a day, gradually in-I’lrar Un til it occasions some obvious effect on the system. This pre-a , l0n is applicable to all the cases for which stramonium is used. _•Tidotks.—T he same as for belladonna.

Nicotia'na Taba'cum, L. E. D.— Virginian- Tobadco.

Sex. Syst. Pentandria, Monogynia.

(Folia exsiccata, L — Leaves, E.— Folia, D.)

Sta >°BY.—The inhalation of the fumes of burning vegetable sub-K ’ ^ 0l h for causing inebriation or for medicinal purposes, seems tothg^heen very anciently practised. Herodotus (Clio, ccii.) tells us, thatc 0r :, a h.Vlonians intoxicated themselves by this means ; and both Dios-V a j ® s (lib. ii. cap. 126) and Pliny (Hist. Nat. lib. xxvi. cap. 16, ed.

jN declare the efficacy of smoking Tussilago in obstinate cough.j)) a ^holdt (Personal Narrative, vol. v. p. 666) says, that the tobaccoH 0li has been cultivated, from time immemorial, by the natives of Oro-Pfior ^ does not appear, however, to have been known to EuropeansAq ,. to the discovery of America ; though it is not improbable that thePhil 1CS Were acquainted with it long before that time, as Pallas, Rum-P'Uro ’ an< ^ Loureiro, have supposed. But it is not probable, I think, thatVo„„°P ean s learned the use of it from the Asiatics, as Ulloa has endea-S to show.

th e r. tlen Columbus and his followers arrived at Cuba , in 1492, they, fortb e » rst time, beheld the custom of smoking cigars (W. Irving , Hist, oflj Qr( |f e °nd Vogages of Columbus, vol. i. p. 287; also the narrative ofin jj hernando Colon, son-in-law of Columbus, Hist, del Amir. cap. 27,Hist. prim, de las Indias occid. vol. i. p. 24). Hernandez detafip ° hitroduced the plant into Spain and Portugal ; and, from ther Place, Jean Nicot sent the seeds or the plant to France , about

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