Books, Manuscripts and Drawings Relating to Tobacco from the Collection of George Arents: On Exhibition at Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina, April 28th to June 2nd 1941Duke University Library, 1941 - 60 pages |
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Page 23
... Queen Elizabeth and Raleigh . He contended he could weigh the smoke of a pipeful of tobacco . Raleigh first weighed the tobacco , then the ashes - the difference was the weight of the smoke . " Many an alchemist , " exclaimed the Queen ...
... Queen Elizabeth and Raleigh . He contended he could weigh the smoke of a pipeful of tobacco . Raleigh first weighed the tobacco , then the ashes - the difference was the weight of the smoke . " Many an alchemist , " exclaimed the Queen ...
Page 28
... Queen Elizabeth . Under a thin allegorical guise , he describes himself as a bee and announces that if he cannot be close to the Queen Bee and " feed on his share of honey " he will fly to tobacco for comfort . It is the first poem in ...
... Queen Elizabeth . Under a thin allegorical guise , he describes himself as a bee and announces that if he cannot be close to the Queen Bee and " feed on his share of honey " he will fly to tobacco for comfort . It is the first poem in ...
Page 44
... Queen Caroline of England indulged in this masticatory as a morning dentrifice . BECK , GEORGE LEONARD . De suctione fumi tabaci . Altdorf , 1745 . An inaugural dissertation concerning the inhalation of to- bacco smoke . This dietetic ...
... Queen Caroline of England indulged in this masticatory as a morning dentrifice . BECK , GEORGE LEONARD . De suctione fumi tabaci . Altdorf , 1745 . An inaugural dissertation concerning the inhalation of to- bacco smoke . This dietetic ...
Contents
Ceremonials Rituals and Mythology | 3 |
Aboriginal and Commercial Cultivation | 9 |
Therapeutics | 15 |
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ailments American tobacco Arents library Autograph letter bacco BRATHWAIT Carolina CARVER Catalogue Catherine de Medici CHARLES chiefly cigar cohoba collection contains the earliest Counterblaste to Tobacco cultivation of tobacco curing custom cut shown decree dissertation Dutch earliest known illustration earliest published edition English engraving famous French monopolists George Arents ginia GROUP Henbane Indian Indies indulged inhaling JAMES Jefferson JOHN John Durkin king of England L'OBEL LiƩbault's lished London meerschaum Mexico Monardes natives nicotian nicotian powder Nicotiana rustica Nicotiana Tabacum numerous references ordinance panacea Paris Persia physician pipe planters plate shown illustrates poems on tobacco Pope Alexander VII popular praise proclamation prohibited Queen references to tobacco relating to tobacco ROBERT rustica sell tobacco smoaking smoking snuff snuffing social subject of tobacco tabaco Tabacologia THEVET tobacco in Virginia tobacco monopoly tobacco plant tobacco ritual tobacco smoke tract translation treatise value of tobacco Virginia water color WILLIAM