Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order

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History of tobacco in chronological order: 1700

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Tobacco helped finance the American Revolution, and is mentioned in the

Constitution. Its past importance is symbolized by the use of tobacco leaves and

flowers as decorations atop columns dating from 1818 in the Old Senate Rotunda of

the United States Capitol.

New Jersey Medicine, February 1988, p. 103, and Richard Hurt, M.D.

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At the end of the Revolutionary War, there were fewer than 800,000 slaves in the

United States. By 1860 there were 4 million black slaves, almost all living in southern

states as labor for growing tobacco and cotton. "About 400 or more man-hours were

required to bring an acre of tobacco from seed to market."

The Tobacco Epidemic, pp. 21-22

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Benjamin Waterhouse was one of the original professors at Harvard Medical School

at its establishment in 1782. (Harvard was the third medical school in the United

States, after Penn in 1765 and Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons in

1768.) In a lecture for the medical course "Cautions to Young Persons Concerning

Health," Waterhouse described the "evil tendency" to use tobacco, especially cigars.

Harvard Med, John Langone, Crown Publishers, 1995, p. 123

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Until 1800, tobacco enemas were given to surgery patients "to prevent muscular

spasms and induce a state of tranquility and a reasonable insensibility to pain."

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Benjamin Rush, the father of American psychiatry and signer of the Declaration of

Independence, condemned tobacco use in his Essays written in 1798.

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 1993, p. 50

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