An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the Nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco. By Edward Brailsford, of Charleston, South-Carolina, member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia.
- Title
- An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the Nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco. By Edward Brailsford, of Charleston, South-Carolina, member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia.
- Author
- Brailsford, Edward, d. 1856.
- Publication
- Philadelphia: :: Printed by John Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut Street.,
- 1799.
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- Subject terms
- Tobacco -- Physiological effect.
- Tobacco -- Therapeutic use.
- Academic dissertations.
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Contents
- title page
- notice
- TO ALEXANDER BARON, M. D. OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH-CAROLINA.
- TO SAMUEL WILSON, M. D. OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH-CAROLINA.
- TO JAMES WOODHOUSE, M. D. PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- CONTENTS.
- EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE.
- INTRODUCTION.
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NATURAL HISTORY.
- CHAPTER I. The natural history of Tobacco, and of its first introduction as an article of luxury.
- CHAPTER II. A concise account of the influence of Tobacco, on living sys|tems, illustrated by a few experiments.
- CHAPTER III. Observations on the noxious effect of tobacco on the human species, when used in the form of smoking, snuffing, and chewing.
- CHAPTER IV. Of the prejudicial effects of the use of Tobacco on the moral faculty.
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CHAPTER V. Of the analysis of tobacco, and the operation of its constituent parts on living systems.
- EXPERIMENT 10.
- EXPERIMENT 11.
- EXPERIMENT 12.
- EXPERIMENT 13.
- EXPERIMENT 14.
- EXPERIMENT 15.
- EXPERIMENT 16.
- EXPERIMENT 17.
- EXPERIMENT 18.
- EXPERIMENT 19.
- EXPERIMENT 20.
- EXPERIMENT 21.
- EXPERIMENT 22
- EXPERIMENT 23.
- EXPERIMENT 24.
- EXPERIMENT 25.
- EXPERIMENT 26.
- EXPERIMENT 27.
- EXPERIMENT 28.
- EXPERIMENT 29.
- EXPERIMENT 30.
- EXPERIMENT 31.
- EXPERIMENT 32.
- EXPERIMENT 33.
- EXPERIMENT 34.
- Observations on the Experiments.
- An account of its medical virtues, in eradicating certain diseases.
- In Fever.
- In Nephritis.
- Ascarides.
- In Asthma.
- In Odontalgia or Tooth-ach.
- In Colic.
- In the Iliac Passion.
- In Hernia.
- In Tympanites Intestinalis.
- In obstinate Ulcers.
- In the Itch.
- In Phtheiriasis.
- Errhines.
- As a Cathartic.
- ERRATA.