A Dissertation On the Medical Properties And Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
A Dissertation On the Medical Properties And Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
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The botanic description of this plant may be found in most works on thescience of botany: and therefore I shall not detain you with it at thistime. The plant, while growing exhibits a very beautiful appearance, butis so extremely nauseous, that in all the variety of insects, only oneis found to feed upon it. This is a worm "_sui generis_, " the mode ofits propagation being entirely unknown; and from its being the onlyliving creature (man excepted) that will devour this plant, [B] it iscalled "_...tobacco worm_. " [Footnote A: See Rees' Cyclopedia. ] [Footnote B: Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. ] II. SENSIBLE QUALITIES.
It is of a yellowish green color; it has a strong, narcotic, andfoetid odor, with a bitter and extremely acrid taste.
III. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
"Mucilage, albumen, or gluten, extractive, a bitter principle, anessential oil, nitrate of potass, which occasions its deflagration, muriate of potass, and a peculiar proximate principle, upon which thevirtues of the plant are supposed to depend, and which has thereforebeen named _Nicotin_.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The botanic description of this plant may be found in most works on thescience of botany: and therefore I shall not detain you with it at thistime. The plant, while growing exhibits a very beautiful appearance, butis so extremely nauseous, that in all the variety of insects, only oneis found to feed upon it. This is a worm "_sui generis_, " the mode ofits propagation being entirely unknown; and from its being the onlyliving creature (man excepted) that will devour this plant, [B] it iscalled "_...tobacco worm_. " [Footnote A: See Rees' Cyclopedia. ] [Footnote B: Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. ] II. SENSIBLE QUALITIES.
It is of a yellowish green color; it has a strong, narcotic, andfoetid odor, with a bitter and extremely acrid taste.
III. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
"Mucilage, albumen, or gluten, extractive, a bitter principle, anessential oil, nitrate of potass, which occasions its deflagration, muriate of potass, and a peculiar proximate principle, upon which thevirtues of the plant are supposed to depend, and which has thereforebeen named _Nicotin_.
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