1572 GOHORY, Jacques (1520 – 1576)

Instruction sur l'herbe petum ditte en France l'herbe de la Royne ou Medicée: Et sur la racine MECHIOCAN principalement (avec quelques autres simples rares et exquis) exemplaire à manier philosophiquement tous autres vegetaux.

The earliest treatise in French on tobacco, including its usage in medicine, and probably the earliest separate treatise on tobacco in any language. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Bowen,…

GMN 13547 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15824

1622 NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)

Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis.

Neander described tobacco, its processing, and medical-pharmaceutical use. His book Includes images of the plants, of Indian, Oriental and European types of pipes, as well as depictions of cultivation and processing b…

GMN 9633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11820

1669 STELLA, Benedetto

Il tabacco opera ... Nella quale si tratta dell'origine, historia, coltura, preparatione, qualità natura, virtà & uso in fumo, in polvere, in foglia, in lambitivo, et in medicina della pianta volgarmente detta tabacco, si discorre degl'vtili ch'arreca moderatamente preso, de i danni ch'apporta smoderatamente usato, e qual sia il vero e legitimo modo di prenderlo: trattato naturale, medico, morale & curioso.

Discusses the origin, history, cultivation, preparation, nature and virtues of tobacco, whether used for smoking, snuffing, chewing, etc. or for medicinal purposes (Waring). "The custom of smoking, its role in divinat…

GMN 13548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15825

1761 HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)

Cautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco Plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken Into the body: And by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use,

First clinical report (pp. 30-31) of an association between tobacco and cancer, in this case “polypusses” of the nose caused by taking snuff. Hill was a distinguished botanist and apothecary, although regarded by some…

GMN 2607.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3063

1795 SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von (1755 – 1830)

De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani.

Soemmerring noted an association between pipe smoking and cancer of the lip (p. 109).

GMN 2609.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3088

1854 LIZARS, John (1794 – 1860)

Practical observations on the use and abuse of tobacco. Greatly enlarged from the original communication on the effects of tobacco smoking, which appeared in Medical Times and Gazette, August 5, 1854.

Lizars was one of the first to recognize the addictive nature of tobacco and its potential damage to health. Digital facsimile of the 6th edition (1857) from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

GMN 13504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15779

1862 MUSSEY, Reuben Dimond (1780 – 1866)

Health: Its friends and foes.

This work, which promoted vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco along with other hygiene and overall health advice, was written as the author stated in his preface, "to meet the comprehension of the general reader…

GMN 11311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13509

1886 MAYER, Adolf Eduard Maydolf (1843 – 1942)

Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit des Tabaks.

Mayer was first to describe and name tobacco mosaic disease and to demonstrate its infectious nature, that it could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections. Translation in Phytopathological Clas…

GMN 2503.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3207

1892 IVANOVSKI, Dmitri Iosifovich (Ivanowski; Iwanowski) (1864 – 1920)

Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit der Tabakspflanze.

The Russian botanist Ivanovski demonstrated that the agent responsible for tobacco mosaic disease could pass through the finest filter then available. This was the starting point of research into the etiology of virus…

GMN 2506.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3229

1937 –1969 BROOKS, Jerome E. (1895 – 1983); ARENTS, George Jr. (1875 – 1960)

Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.

GMN 11629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13829

1939 MÜLLER, Franz Hermann

Tabakmissbrauch und Lungencarcinom.

In the first case-control epidemiological study of the effects of tobacco Müller recorded a statistically significant correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. See Alfredo Morabia, "Quality, originality, …

GMN 3213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4354

1950 GRAHAM, Evarts Ambrose (1883 – 1957); WYNDER, Ernst Ludwig (1922 – 1999)

Tobacco smoking as a possible etiologic factor in bronchogenic carcinoma: A study of 684 proved cases.

A case-control study proving an association between heavy prolonged cigarette smoking and bronchogenic carcinoma. See also the following paper on pp. 336-38. Reprinted in J. Amer. med. Assoc. 1985, 253, 2986-97.

GMN 3215.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4362

1951 ROTH, Grace M. (1894 – 1982)

Tobacco and the cardiovascular system: The effects of smoking and of nicotine on normal persons.

GMN 11699 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13900

1955 FRAENKEL-CONRAT, Heinz Ludwig (1910 – 1999); WILLIAMS, Robley Cook (1908 – 1995)

Reconstitution of active tobacco mosaic virus from its inactive protein and nucleic acid components.

First reconstitution of a virus.

GMN 2527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3465

1993 WILBERT, Johannes

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

GMN 9017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11196

1994 GOODMAN, Jordan

Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.

GMN 9684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11871

1996 GLANTZ, Stanton Arnold (1945 – ); ET AL

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

GMN 8660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10837

1996

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

GMN 8661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10838

1999 HARRISON, Bryan Desmond (1931 – ); WILSON, T. M. A.

Tobacco mosaic virus: Pioneering research for a century. A theme issue edited by B. D. Harrison and T. M. A. Wilson.

GMN 11071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13267

2001 GATELY, Iain (1965 – )

Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.

GMN 9686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11873

2002 HUGHES, Jason

Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.

GMN 9685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11872