CHAPTER III

.—THE “WOND’ROUS WEED.”

Legendary origin of Tobacco; Use in Hispaniola; Names for Tobacco; First Discovery by Europeans; Introduction into France, Tuscany, Spain and Portugal, England; Complaints against it; Smoking taught to the Dutch; Studenten Kneipe; Tobacco in the East; Progress in England; Opposition by James I. and other monarchs in Russia, Italy, Persia, Turkey, Tuscany, &c.; Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth; Lovers of Tobacco; The Distribution of the Tobacco Plant; Consumption of Tobacco; Curious use of the Flowers; Tobacco Poison; Antidote to Arsenic; Finance questions; Religious prohibitions; King James’s “Counterblaste.” 19

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