. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . l; leaves glutinous:flowers yellowish or greenish; fruit dry. Native home. South Americaand Mexico.—Virginia tobacco similar to the Turkish but growing2 m. tall; flowers rose or purplish. Native home, South America. alkaloid, nicotine (C10H14N0), one of the most virulent ofpoisons. A single drop of pure nicotine will kill a animals are killed by a whiff of its vapor. A childof eight died from an application to the scalp of juice ex-pressed from fresh to])acco leaves. Medicinally, tobacco isused mainly for its quieting effect in c
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . l; leaves glutinous:flowers yellowish or greenish; fruit dry. Native home. South Americaand Mexico.—Virginia tobacco similar to the Turkish but growing2 m. tall; flowers rose or purplish. Native home, South America. alkaloid, nicotine (C10H14N0), one of the most virulent ofpoisons. A single drop of pure nicotine will kill a animals are killed by a whiff of its vapor. A childof eight died from an application to the scalp of juice ex-pressed from fresh to])acco leaves. Medicinally, tobacco isused mainly for its quieting effect in certain nervous affec-tions, but it is now rarel\ prescribed. No other plant, how-ever, is so widely used as an indulgence. It is estimated that POISONOUS DRUGS 185 over 800,000,000 people habitually smoke or chew tobacco,or take snuff. The effect of tobacco upon the user varieswith differences of age, temperament, and manner of an amount of indulgence which does not seem to haveany ill effect upon the health of a man of middle age and. Fig. 174, I.—Coca (Erythroxylon Coca, Coca Family, Erythroxylacece).Flowering branch. Leaf. (Baillon.)—Shrub about 2 m. tall; leaveswhitish green below; flowers j-ellow; fruit scarlet. Native home, Peru.
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