CPH 306 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antihistamine, Hypericum Perforatum, Iced Tea
27 Apr 2017
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A legal product used by a significant proportion of adults. But a substance responsible for more adverse health consequences and death than any other drugs. Cultivated and used by native americans for centuries: presented tobacco leaves as a gift to colombus in 1492. The word (cid:498)tabaco(cid:499) was adopted by the spanish: possibly from the arabic word (cid:494)tabbaq(cid:499) meaning (cid:498)medicinal hers(cid:499) 1500s: recognition of the medical potential grew. French physician jean nicot: early proponent: nicotine (the active ingredient) and nicotiana (the plant genus were named after him) 16th and 17th centuries: viewed as having many positive medical uses but as having a negative reproductive effect. 1890s: nicotine dropped form the u. s. pharmacopoeia. Two major species grown today (out of more than 60: nicotiana tobacum: large-leaf species indigenous only to south. America but now cultivated widely: nicotiana rustica: small-leaf species from the west indies and.
