but the name of Nicot superseded these, and botanists have perpetuated it in the genus Nicotiana."Le Maout and Decaisne.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 27: London 1606.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 28: George Buchanan, the Scotch Philosopher and poet tutor of James I., had a strong aversion to Catherine of Medicis, and in one of his Latin epigrams, alludes to the herb being called Medicie, advising all who valued their health to shun it, not so much from its being naturally hurtful, but that it needs must become poisonous if called by so hateful a name.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 29: The Pied Bull Inn, at Islington, was the first house in England where tobacco was smoked, while Moll Cut-Purse, a noted pickpocket who flourished in the time of Charles II., is said to have been the first Englishwoman who smoked tobacco.[Back to Main Text] Footnote 30: "It was introduced, about 1520, into Portugal and Spain by Doctor Hernandez of Toledo

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