A Treatise upon the Herb Tobacco, pointing out its deleterious pernicious quality, and its fatal effects upon the human constitution, by the great variety of disorders it occasions ... by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, London: for Charles Stalker, [1789], 8°, FIRST EDITION (a few corners creased), late 19th-century half calf, ownership inscription of Edwd Bromhead 1790 to title. [Blake p. 458]

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A Treatise upon the Herb Tobacco, pointing out its deleterious pernicious quality, and its fatal effects upon the human constitution, by the great variety of disorders it occasions ... by a Gentleman of the University of Cambridge, London: for Charles Stalker, [1789], 8°, FIRST EDITION (a few corners creased), late 19th-century half calf, ownership inscription of Edwd Bromhead 1790 to title. [Blake p. 458]

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RARE. ESTCm locates only one copy in England at the John Rylands Library. Deals with snuff taking, tobacco smoking and tobacco chewing, both as a cause of disease leading to cancers and tumours, and source of anti-social behaviour. "Another particular I cannot avoid animadverting upon ... is the great indelicacy of continually blowing this powder out of the nostrils, together with a quantity of humour disagreeably tinctured with it, and this not only about the person's own face and cloaths who uses it, but even frequently in the faces of such as may happen to be placed near him; having every ten minutes recourse to the handkerchief, the flag of abomination, as Dr. Smollet, I remember, justly and humorously styles it, when describing the customs of the French."