| Description Of Item | Page 285 from the Medical Circular, originally published on 2 September 1871. Article about new research into the nature of tobacco and tobacco smoke conducted by Dr Vohl and Dr [Albert?] Eulenberg. From the results of chemical tests conducted on tobacco for smoking, for snuffing, and for chewing, and testing on animals, they theorised that it was alkaloids from the picolin and pyridine series (and not nicotine) that were responsible for the ill effects of tobacco-smoking.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |