The Anatomy of Tobacco, Or, Smoking Methodised, Divided, and Considered After a New Fashion

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...of Honeydew, one of Birdseye, and three of Cavendish, the Honeydew contributing blandness, the Birdseye fragrance, and the Cavendish strength. And this must be said in favour of admixtures--that by smoking several kinds of tobacco in combination the student approximates more nearly to the universal energy than if he smoke one kind alone, for it is to be considered that each sort has its peculiar excellences and its peculiar defects, whence by mixing several sorts in such a proportion that the excellences are combined in a harmony-and the defects or vices annulled, we are near to that ideal tobacco possessing every conceivable excellence and no conceivable vice. So much, then, for the various kinds of Tobacco, the properties thereof, and the combinations thereof. Now Smalgruelius, in the Appendix to his work De Omnibus Rebus, Hence the memorial lines: --Latakia, et Turkish, Returns, Virginia, Birdseye, Shag, Honeydew, Cavendish: --omnia fumifera. It is doubted whether these be the lines in the mind of the poet when he speaks of a "most burlesque, barbarous experiment." This I leave to the consideration of the curious in such matters. entitled De Quibusdem Aliis, at the beginning of the chapter De Rebus Hypotheticis, has these words: --" Anything which can be applied to some use, and, on being s-o applied, is incapable of being used again, is said to exist in three modes, namely--I. Privation. II. Position. III. Negation. Exempli gratia coal, which before it is burnt exists in privation; when it is burning, in position; and when it is burnt to ashes, in negation. Such substance is said to be determinate. And anything which is capable of being applied to some use, and on being applied continues its usefulness to infinity, is said...