Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, principally with regard to its diuretic quality, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries : Together with some observations, on the use of clysters of tobacco, in the treatment of the colic / by Thomas Fowler.

Date:
1785
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Credit: Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, principally with regard to its diuretic quality, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries : Together with some observations, on the use of clysters of tobacco, in the treatment of the colic / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    getable Alkali (the Ufe of which in Dropfies, has long been well known to Phyficians) it muft arife from fome Property inherent in Tobacco, and which perhaps had not been wholly de- ftroyed by the Adion of Fire ; and if fo, why not try the Plant itfelf ? It appears, from the Hiflory of this Plant, that it was hrft introduced into Europe by Monfieur Nicot, from the Ifland of Tobago, about the Year 1560: and that various medicinal Properties have been attributed to it, at different Times, efpecially by foreign Phyfi- cians. But, from whatever Caufe it has happened, the Generality of Writers on the Materia Medica, have fpoken of it, with great Caution and Referve ; and for the moft Part have concluded their Remarks by declaring it, either obfolete.