plant
Tobacco
Tobacco as a plant people have named and used. Smoke offering, leaf roll, edged breath — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Nahua tradition
Tobacco appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records picietl / yetl in Book 11 plant chapters — named tobacco as smoked and medicinal plant. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Tobacco is historically related to Oil.
In Dioscorides's De Materia Medica, Tobacco is treated with Oil; piece and peer stock share the entry.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Tobacco is associated with Smoke.
In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, an earwig in the meatus may be destroyed by tobacco-smoke, or by oil poured into the meatus — tobacco supplies that smoke.
from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)
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Tobacco is associated with Rue.
In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, those who wait on the infectious sick should stuff their noses with tobacco, or some other strong smelling herb, as rue, tansy, or the like — tobacco stands with that rue guard.
from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)
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Hookah is used in Tobacco.
Hobson’s Hooka article seats the Indian water-pipe whose bowl is charged with a compound of tobacco, spice, and molasses — smoke furniture, not a dry cigar alone.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Chillum is used in Tobacco.
Hobson’s Chillum article seats the bowl of the huḳḳa that holds the tobacco and charcoal — bowl speech, not the whole water-pipe alone.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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Narghile is historically related to Tobacco.
Hobson’s Nargeela / Nargileh article seats the coco-nut shell water-pipe and thence the Persian glass or metal hooka — coco-shell smoke kinship, not a dry pipe dump.
from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)
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sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- Medical Lexicon · Robley Dunglison
Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon (Dictionary of Medical Science).
- Domestic Medicine · William Buchan
William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (12th ed., 1791).
- Hobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)
Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).