Herbarium of the Bizarre

Tobacco, Part 1

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I actually planned to have two parts this time. And I hope this goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: this podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes, not medical advice. Please, please do not attempt using tobacco for any of the historical medical purposes mentioned in this episode just because I said it’s been done before. Not everything that has been done should be repeated.


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Information provided by:

  1. Medicinal uses of tobacco in history by Anne Charlton (2004) https://doi.org/10.1258%2Fjrsm.97.6.292
  2. Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) by Marianna Jennifer Datiles & Pedro Acevedo-Rodriguez (2014) https://doi.org/10.1079/cabicompendium.36326
  3. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/tobacco-in-colonial-virginia/
  4. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1677/a-brief-history-of-tobacco-in-the-americas/
  5. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/tobacco-the-early-history-of-a-new-world-crop.htm
  6. https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/nicotiana/tabacum/
  7. https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/nicotiana-tabacum/
  8. https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants400/Profiles/MN/Nicotiana
  9. Tobacco smoking: the leading cause of preventable disease worldwide by Jonathan M. Samet (2013) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.thorsurg.2013.01.009
  10. https://www.st-group.com/about-us/our-tobacco/history-of-tobacco/
  11. https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Nicotiana+tabacum
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