TABACUM.
Nicotiana tabacum, Linn.
Natural order
, Solanaceæ.
Common name
, Tobacco.
Preparation
, Tincture of the leaves.
Authorities.
(1
to 3, from Hartlaub and Trinks). 1, Nenning; 2,
Schreter; 3, Hausbrand, Hufeland’s
Journ., vol. 45, part 4, p. 109, observed in a nurse from a clyster
containing 2 ounces of native Tobacco; (4
to 31, Seidel’s collection, A. H.
Z., 12, 150); 4, effects of 10 drops
of tincture on himself; 4a, 20 drops of tincture; 4b, 30
drops; 4c,
40 drops; 4d,
60 drops; 5, E., a healthy girl,
took 5 drops of tincture; 6, L., a
healthy young woman, took 2 drops of tincture; 7,
Fowler, Med. Rep., London, 1785, effects of Tobacco; 8, Hildebrandt, Hufeland’s Journ., vol. 15,
p. 160, effects of application of leaves to chest and abdomen; 9, Murray, Arzneivorrath, vol. 1, p. 624; 10, Muller, Bad. Annal. für Heilk., vol. 4,
p. 92; 11, Voigtel, Arzneimittel,
1817; 12, Gesner, Epistol., effects
on nose and mouth of smoking the leaves; 13,
Gessner, Arzn., in Schwaben, 1, 194; 14,
Marrigues, Vandemond, Rec. Periodic, vol. 7, p. 68, effects of smoking; 15, Vidocq, Miscel., 1828, 12, 376; 16, Mombert, Hufeland’s Journ., 1833, effects
of injection in a man, æt. seventy years, for a scrotal hernia which
had to be operated on; 17,
Chantourelle, Archiv. Gén. de Med., 1832, injection of 1 1/2 ounces in
a man; 18, Gemelin, Geschichte der
Pflanzengifte, 1770, Halle Gifte Histoire, 1787; 19, Dove, Duncan, Med. Corr., Dec. 2d, vol.
8; 20, Garnel, Med. Comment for the
Year 1791; 21, O’Brien, Dublin Hosp.
Rep., 1832, effects of injection; 22,
Ephem. Nat. Cur., Dec. 2d, Ann. 3, obs. 108, p. 62, effects of external
application of the juice to a wound; 23,
Stevenson, Alston’s Mat. Med., vol. 2, 160, application of juice to an
ulcer; 24, Diemenbrock, Tract. de
Peste, p. 294; 25, Pitschaft,
Hufeland’s Journ., 1832; 26, Horn,
Arzneimittel, 1805; 27, Chornel,
Usuelles, 10, 184; 28, Brandis,
Archiv., 25, 1, 97, effects of a clyster; 29,
Grahl, Hufeland’s Journ., 71, 4, 100; 30,
Hellwig, Obs. Phys. Med., p. 45; 31,
Ephem. Nat. Cur., Dec. 2d, Ann. 10, p. 222; 32,
P. Grant, Med. Comment., 1786, a man and his wife anointed their bodies
with a strong infusion to prevent the itch; 33
to 35, Cany, Recueil de Mem. de
Med., 1816 (Frank’s Mag., 3, 855), effects on men of attempting to save
burning Tobacco; 36, same, effects
on a woman; 37, Marshall Hall, M.D.,
Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1816, p. 11, J. H., æt. nineteen years,
unaccustomed to smoking, smoked one, and a part of a second pipe, and
swallowed the saliva; 38, Dr.
Truchsess, Med. Corr. Blatt., vol. 6, p. 339 (Horn, Archiv., 16, pr. 3,
p. 94), a girl, æt. ten years, had a crust upon the scalp, to which was
applied powdered Tobacco; 39, G. G.
Sigmond, M.D., Lancet, 1837 (1), 150, a young man made an external
application for the itch; 40,
Richard, from Thorer (Journ. de Chim. Méd., 1839), a woman took an
injection of an infusion; 41,
Krauss, Würt. Corr. Blatt., 1840 (Frank’s Mag., 2, 169), a girl took an
injection of an infusion for worms; 42,
Schmidtmann, Hufeland’s Journ., 1840 (Frank’s Mag., 1, 812), effects of
excessive smoking; 43, Gaz. Méd. de
Paris (A. H. Z., 21, 28), effects of an injection of 45 grams of an
infusion; 44, same, effects of an
infusion; (45 to 51, Dr. Riemer Schneider, De Herb a Nicotine,
1840 (A. H. Z., 19, 10); 45, a man,
æt. twenty-four years, took in ten days 1 ounce of tincture of fresh
leaves of Nict. rustica, and within eight days 2 ounces of essence; 46, a prover, æt. twenty-three years, took
within eight days 2 ounces of essence; 47,
K., æt. twenty-five years, took 1 ounce of essence in ten days; 48, another, æt. twenty-nine years, took 4
ounces of essence in eight days; 49,
S., æt. twenty-two years, took 2 ounces of essence in eight days; 50, G., æt. twenty-eight years, took the
essence for ten days; 51, E., æt.
twenty-six years, took 5 ounces of essence in fourteen days; 52, B. M. Tavignot, Revue Med., Dec., 1840
(Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1841 (2), p. 562), a man, æt.
fifty-five years, suffering from dysuria and enlarged prostate, took an
injection of a decoction of 12 grains of Tobacco in 6 ounces of water,
death; 53, Curtis, Treatise on the
Eyes (Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 26, 1842, p. 258), effects of
excessive smoking on a young man; 54,
Eitner, Encyclop. des Sci. Med. Mag., 1843 (Am. Journ. Med. Sci., 1844
(1), p. 231); 55, Dr. Meyern,
Casper’s Woch., 1844 (Hom. Vjs., 6, 104), a woman, æt. fifty years,
made an external application of the leaves; 55a, Westrumb, Rust’s Mag., vol. 42, 464, a
man rubbed the juice into a wound on the hand; (56
to 64, A. B. Shipman, Bostom Med.
and Surg. Journ., vol. 31, 1844). 56,
a young man smoked, chewed, and snuffed freely; 57,
a sister of same, æt. thirty-nine years, had smoked and snuffed for
fifteen years; 58, S. E., æt. forty
years; 59, C. P., æt. forty-three
years, had chewed for twenty years; 60,
S. C., æt. sixty-three years, had chewed for thirty-eight years; 61, S. J., æt. fifty-four years, had used
Tobacco for ten years; 62, A. C.,
æt. twenty-seven years, had chewed for four years; 63, Mr. H., æt. thirty years, had used
Tobacco for fifteen years; 64, J.
S., æt. forty years, often used a pound a week; 65, B. B. A., ibid., general effect; 66, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 33, 1845, p.
101, report of French Acad. of Med. of effects on workmen; 67, Dr. Chapman, Diseases of the Viscera
(Lond. Med. Gaz., new ser., vol. 1, 1845, p. 981), effects of excessive
chewing, smoking, and snuffing; 68,
Melier, S. J., 95, 41, effects on workmen in Tobacco; 69, R. H. Allnatt, M.D., Lond. Med. Gaz.,
1845 (1), p. 237, effects of chewing on a young man; 70, M. Bertini, Giornale delle Sci. Med.
della Soc. Med. Chir. di Torino (Med. Times, vol. 13, 1846, p. 326), a
child, æt. four years and a half, was given an enema prepared with part
of a cigar; 71, Peter Eade, Lancet,
1849 (2), p. 480, a girl, æt. eighteen years, for constipation, took an
injection of about 3 drachms of common shag Tobacco boiled in 1/2 pint
of water, death in an hour and a half; 72,
Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 43, p. 474, effects of excessive
smoking on an old man; 73, R. A.
Kimlock, M.D., Charleston Med. Journ. and Rev., vol. 5, 1850, p. 450, a
woman, æt. twenty-eight years, had “chewed snuff” for six
years; 74, Howison, Foreign Scenes
(Brit. Journ. of Hom., 8, 1850, p. 24), Mr. H. embarked on a sloop laden
with Tobacco; 75, J. L. Levison,
Med. Times, vol. 21, 1850, p. 27, effects on the teeth; 76, Innhauser, Wien. Zeit., 1851 (S. J., 71,
356), effects on cigarmakers; 77,
Dr. Deutsch, Preuss. Verein Zeit., 1851 (S. J., 70, 27), a man suffering
from tapeworm, took 1 ounce of fluid extract; 78,
same, a young woman smoked and swallowed a piece of a cigar for
toothache; 79, Hjorth, Gaz. des
Hôp., 1852, (S. J., 76, 311), a woman, suffering from irregular
intermittent fever, took an infusion in milk; 80,
W. A. Weaks, M.D., Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. 47, 1852, p. 461, a
child, æt. seven days, took two tablespoonfuls of water impregnated
with Tobacco-smoke, death in eight hours and a half; 81, Dr. J. W. Corson, Bost. Med. and Surg.
Journ., vol. 49, p. 518, effects of chewing and swallowing the juice; 82, Dr. Polko, Preuss. Verein Zeit., 1854 (S.
J., 86, p. 31), a man applied the leaves to the lower extremities for
rheumatism; 83, David Skae, M.D.,
Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1855-6, p. 643, a maniac, æt. twenty-six
years, swallowed over 1/2 ounce of the crude. (84
to 86, quoted by Levi, Charleston
Med. Journ., vol. 11, 1856, p. 843); 84,
Etmuller; 85, Richard Morton; 86, Leroy d’Etiolles; 87, W. A. Hammond, M.D., Am. Journ. Med.
Sci., 1856 (2), p. 315, unaccustomed to smoking, smoked 150 grains after
each meal; 87a,
same, second experiment, the bread and meat each reduced, 6 ounces
daily; 88, Dr. Reil, Journ. für
Pharmakodynamik, vol. 1, 1857, p. 568, poisoning of a family of three
persons by coffee containing Tobacco; 88a, same, a woman, æt. fifty-six years; 89, I. N. Kerlin, M.D., Med. and Surg. Rep.,
vol. 10, 1857, a lad, æt. eighteen years accustomed to the use of
Tobacco, swallowed 30 grains of the leaf. (90
to 97, Dr. A. Teste, Journ. de la
Soc. Gall., 2d ser., vol. 3, p. 401.); 90,
effects on workers in Tobacco; 91, a
soldier, who smoked thirty pipes daily; 92,
a gentleman, who smoked seven or eight cigars daily; 93, a man, æt. sixty years, an almost
incessant smoker; 94, a man, who had
left off the use of Tobacco for fifteen or twenty years, staid a few
minutes in a room where others were smoking; 95,
symptoms in a man, æt. forty-three years, all of which disappeared
after leaving off smoking; 96,
effects on Dr. Teste himself; 97,
Gaz. Med. Italian (Journ. de Chim. Méd., 1859), a man, affected with
herpes in the beard, applied the oil; 98,
Dr. Osborne, Dublin Quart. Journ., 1860 (2), p. 291; 99, Brit. Journ. of Hom., 18, 1860, p. 681, a
man, æt. forty-six, smoked one or two cigars every evening. 100 to 103,
M. Beau, La presse Méd. Belge, July 1862 (Brit. and For.-Med. Chir.
Rev., 1862 (2), p. 537); 100, a
gentleman, æt. sixty years, smoked the greater part of the day; 101, a doctor, æt. thirty-five years, smoked
cigarettes excessively; 102, another
doctor, æt. fifty years, smoked continually; 103,
a man, æt. thirty years, smoked cigarettes continually; 104 to 106,
same, Med. Circ., August 27th, 1862 (Brit. Journ. of Hom., 20, 1862, p.
685); 104, a physician; 105, a merchant smoked cigarettes
excessively; 106, a healthy and
vigorous man, æt. seventy-five years; 107,
Clemens, Deutsch Clinic, 1862 (S. J., 156, 16), effects of excessive
smoking; 108, another case; 109, P. J. Farnsworth M.D., Am. Med. Times,
vol. 5, 1862, p. 189, Mr. L., æt. thirty-five years, smoked
excessively; (110 to 112a, E.
Smith, M.D., Lancet, 1863 (1), p. 292, effects on the pulse.); 110, Mr. D., smoked a pipe, drawing the smoke
through water; 110a, second experiment by same, where the
smoke was not drawn through water; 110b, same, smoked seven minutes; 110c,
smoked in greater volume; 110d, smoked faster three minutes and
recharged the pipe; 111, effect on
Dr. H.; 111a,
same, smoked the strongest bird’s-eye Tobacco; 112,
Dr. R. smoked a cigar; 112a, same, smoked the strongest bird’s-eye
Tobacco; 113, J. C. Wadsworth,
Lancet, 1863 (2), p. 95, W. A., æt. twenty-one years, smoked 1 pound or
1 1/2 pounds a week; 114, same, J.
M., æt. thirty-six years, used Tobacco excessively; 115, G. A., æt. twenty years, has smoked
eight or nine years, now smokes 1/2 ounce of strong Tobacco every day; 116, M. Bernard, Comptes Rendus, 1864 (Brit.
and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1864 (2), p. 531), a man enveloped his whole
skin in the leaves to evade the payment of duty; 117, Dr. Le Briert, Gaz. des Hôp. (Edin.
Med. Journ., 1864 (2), 171), a woman, æt. forty-five years, had eaten
about two francs’ worth a week for several years; 118, M. Decaisne, Med. Times and Gaz., 1864
(1), p. 671, effects of smoking; 119,
Med. Times and Gaz., 1864 (2), p. 559, a man died from the effects of
chewing and swallowing the juice of roll Tobacco; 120, Dr. Majer, Würt. Corr. Blatt., 1864,
effects of smoking four Kentucky cigars; 121,
Walter Scott, M.D., Med. Mirror (Dublin Med. Press, new ser., vol. 10,
1864, p. 588), Richard Edmondson, æt. seventeen years, smoked two pipes
of bird’s-eye and chewed about 1/3 ounce of Limerick roll Tobacco,
swallowing the spittle; 122, Dr.
Henry Kennedy, ibid., vol. 9, 1864, p. 226, a man æt. thirty-four
years, an excessive smoker; 123, Dr.
Royston, Med. Circular, vol. 25, 1864, p. 381, effects of excessive
smoking; 124, Dr. Charles Drysdale,
ibid., p. 380, effects of excessive smoking, such as 3/4 ounce daily; 125, same, a young man smoked 1/2 ounce
daily; 126, Marchant, Journ. de
Brux., 1865 (S. J., 127), poisoning by sucking the juice from an old
pipe; 127, Wien. Med. Press, 1866
(N. Z. für H. K., 13, 112), effects of chewing a cigar of Tobacco rust;
128, T. H. Babbington, M.D., Dublin
Journ., 1866 (2), p. 545, Patrick Collier, æt. thirty years, poisoned
by exposure to fumes of roated Tobacco and excessive use of the weed; 129, Ritter, Med. Corr. Blatt. Würt., vol.
38, p. 5, a man, æt. sixty-three years, who had smoked excessively
since fourteen years old, now smoked Hungarian Tobacco in a meerschaum
several times daily for six months, besides several cigars each day; 130, Dr. L. Scotten, Virchow’s Archiv., 1868
(North Am. Journ. of Hom., 17, p. 469), an officer smoked excessively; 131, same, second case; 132, Mr. Curgensen, Med. Circular, vol. 25,
1869, p. 380, effects of excessive smoking; 133,
Maurice G. Evans, M.D., Lancet, June 19th, 1869, a boy, æt. seven
years, for ringworm on the neck, had applied to it the ashes scraped
from interior of a much-used pipe and mixed with oil; the ashes could
have been held on the point of a penknife; 134,
Bull. Gén. de Thér., June, 1869 (New York Journ. of Hom., vol. 2,
1874, p. 533), a lotion of Tobacco was used as a wash to cure itch; 135, Lembke, N. Z. für H. K. 12, 97,
repeated doses of 5, 10, 15, and 20 drops of tincture, and 30 to 40
drops of Aqua nicotine; 136, S.
Swan, North Am. Journ. of Hom., new ser., vol. 1, 1870, p. 253, a man
used a paper of fine-cut Tobacco every day, with some cigars; 136a,
same, general statement; 137, J. H.
P. Frost, Hahn. Month., vol. 5, 1870, p. 409, a physician used Tobacco
over thirty years; 138, Reymond,
Ann. d’Ocul., 1871 (S. J., 151, 312), abuse of Tobacco; 139, Carl Muller, Am. Hom. Obs., 1871, p.
561, a man, æt. twenty-four, a confirmed devotee to Tobacco, smoked a
“splendidly colored cutty” three times in succession while in
bed; 140, James W. Allan, Lancet,
1871 (2), p. 663, a woman applied the leaves to an ulceration on her
legs; 141, T. F. Allen, Hahn.
Month., vol. 8, 1872, p. 22, a man, æt. thirty-five years, had used
Tobacco immoderately for several years; 142,
Dr. Miller, Hahn. Month., vol. 7, 1872, p. 531, general effects; 143, same, a French physician investigated
the effects of habitual smoking upon thirty-eight boys between the ages
of nine and fifteen years; 144,
Hahn. Month., vol. 7, p. 288, effects on children; 145, Dr. Goullon, Jr., A. H. Z., 84, 66,
effects of smoking a cigar in the evening; 146,
H. N. Dunnell, M.D., Med. Union, vol. 1, 1873, p. 227, a German, æt.
forty-three years, took 15 drops on an empty stomach, death in about ten
minutes; 147, U. V. Miller, North
Am. Journ. of Hom., new ser., vol. 4, 1874, p. 86, C. T., æt.
twenty-seven, has for three years observed effects on himself of
smoking; 148, B. W. Richardson,
M.D., Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1875 (2), p. 234, a man smoked in
less than twelve hours forty cigarettes and fourteen good cigars; (149 to 151,
E. B. Morgan, Brit. Med. Journ., 1875 (2), p. 487, three persons
poisoned by water from a well in which Tobacco had been placed); 149, a man, æt. fifty-five years; 150, death of a boy æt. four years; 151, a girl æt. six years; 152, E. W. Berridge, U. S. Med. Invest., new
ser., vol. 1, 1875, p. 100, took 77 pilules 1000 (Jen.) at 10.50 A.M.
and at 11 P.M.; 153, same, effects
on Mr. — of smoking; 154, Prof.
Chevallier, Journ. de Chim. Méd. (New Remedies, 1875), a young man
smoked twelve cigars, death; 155,
Dr. Yeldman, Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. 33, 1875, p. 508, effects of
attempting to learn to smoke; 156,
effects of excessive smoking on a man; 157,
effects of excessive smoking on a young man; 158,
Ravoth, from the Swedish, Lundahl, “Tabac est Gift,” Berlin,
1875; 159, Forsius, ibid., effects
of excessive smoking; (160 to 164, Foussard, De l’Empoisonnement a la
Nicotine et le Tabac, Paris, 1876); 160,
symptoms of acute poisoning; 161,
Mackenzie; 162, Foussard, Madame N.
took an infusion; 163, Rabateau,
Med. Gaz., vol. 10, poisoning by an injection; 164,
same, effects of smoking cigars; 165,
E. W. Berridge, M.D., Am. Journ. of Hom. Mat. Med., vol. 9, 1876, p.
244, effects of smoking on Mr. —; 166,
J. N. Bigelow, M.D., New York Med. Journ., vol. 23, 1876, p. 399, T. S.,
æt. twenty-six years, had smoked excessively from the age of twelve; 167, G. H. De Wolfe, M.D., Lancet, 1876 (2),
p. 811, G. H. smoked six pipes before breakfast, and continued smoking
all day, using small dirty pipes; 168,
W. W. Van Valzah, M.D., Phila. Med. Times, 1877 (1), p. 271, a man took
Tobacco to relieve constipation; 169,
Brit. Med. Journ., 1877 (2), p. 419, a boy, æt. four years, blew
soap-bubbles with an old wooden pipe, death on the fourth day; 170, Mr. Nettleship, Med. Times and Gaz.,
1877 (2), p. 434, William W., æt. fifty-three years, a heavy smoker; 171, W. K., æt. fifty years, a heavy smoker;
172, John H., æt. sixty-six years,
a heavy smoker; 173, William E.,
æt. fifty-two years, a smoker; 174,
Jonathan Hutchinson, Med.-Chir. Trans., 1867, p. 411 (Ophth. Hosp. Rep.,
1871, p. 172, and 1876, p. 463), cases of amaurosis, supposed to be due
to Tobacco; 175, Hemptel’s Mat.
Med., vol. 2, p. 675, a girl, æt. twenty-three years, who had the itch,
made a decoction of 3 ounces of the leaves, with which she soaked
compresses, and wrapped them around her leg in the evening.® 2000
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