| Chapter I.—Somewhat Fabulous. | PAGE |
| The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus; Legend of the Seven Sisters of Sleep; Laureates of Sleep; Necessity of Sleep; Pleasures of Sleep; Sanctity of Sleep; The “Last Sleep of Argyle;” Death of Sleeping Duncan; Desdemona and Othello; Drowsiness, fatal alike to Devotion and Instruction | 1 |
| Chapter II.—The Sisters of Old. |
| Hemp amongst the Scythians; Intoxicating vapours of the MassagetÆ; the Nepenthes of Homer; the Secret of Egyptian Thebes; The Poppy of the Ancients; Secret Poisoning of Aratus of Sicyon; The Acts of Locusta; Death of Britannicus; The Delphic Oracle; Arabian Nights; Another Nepenthes; Antony’s Retreat; Retreat of the Ten Thousand; Something unknown | 10 |
| Chapter III.—The “Wond’rous Weed.” |
| Legendary origin of Tobacco; Use in Hispaniola; Names for Tobacco; First Discovery by Europeans; Introduction into France, Tuscany, Spain and Portugal, England; Complaints against it; Smoking taught to the Dutch; Studenten Kneipe; Tobacco in the East; Progress in England; Opposition by James I. and other monarchs in Russia, Italy, Persia, Turkey, Tuscany, &c.; Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth; Lovers of Tobacco; The Distribution of the Tobacco Plant; Consumption of Tobacco; Curious use of the Flowers; Tobacco Poison; Antidote to Arsenic; Finance questions; Religious prohibitions; King James’s “Counterblaste.” | 19 |
| Chapter IV.—The Cabinet of Cloudland. |
| A Premier; Lord Mayor Staines; Smoking the Plague; A First Cigar; Infant Smokers at Vizagapatam; Burmah; Female Smokers in China; Smokers in Persia, Siam, Japan, Nicaragua, on the Amazon, in New Guinea, Havana, Manilla; The Binua of Johore; Signor Calistro’s Story; Cigars on the Orinoco; In Chili; The Court of Montezuma; Panama Smokeblowers; Rocky Mountain Indians; Salvation Yeo; Yemen Smokers; Smoking in Austria; Turkish Cloudland; Defeat of Napoleon; Curious Legend; Old Epigram; Cost of Puffing; Yankee Calculations; Smoking in New York; Cigar-making in the States | 38 |
| Chapter V.—Pipeology. |
| Philosophy in a pipe; St. Omer pipes; English pipes; Curious Indian pipe; Turkish bowls; Meerschaum; Massa bowls; Amber mouth-pieces; Origin of amber; Modern Egyptian pipes; The Shibuk; The Nargeeleh; The Gozeh; Egoodu of the Zulus; Hubble-bubble of the Delagoans; Kaffir bowls; Sailors’ pipes; Bamboo pipes; Winna of British Guiana; Shell pipes; Chinese pipes; Metallic pipes; Ode to a Tobacco-pipe; Red pipe-stone quarry; Stone pipes of Rocky Mountains; The “Calumet;” The Sultan’s pipe-bearer; Wooden pipes; Modern pipeology; Pipes in Australia | 58 |
| Chapter VI.—Sniffing and Sneeshin. |
| The Franciscan of Sterne; Etymology of Snuff; Pouncet-boxes; The “Niopo” of the Ottomacs; The “Curupa” of the Omaguas; Snuffing in Iceland; Zulu Calabashes; Early Snuff-taking Apparatus; Origin of the “Mull;” Magnificent Mull; Mongrabin Cases; Strong Snuff of the Sahara; Plugging and Quidding; Snuff-taking Estimates; Snuff dipping; Death in the Box; Adulterated Snuff; Snuff Scents; Substitutes for Snuff; Lead Poison; Advice Gratis; Gold Snuff-boxes; Amber Snuff-boxes; Boxes of Hard-shelled Seeds; Chinese Flasks; Chinese Snuffing; A Snuff-stick; Birch-bark Boxes; Scotch Snuff-boxes; Introduction of Snuffing; Varieties of Snuff; Hardham’s 37; Gossip on Sneezing; Pseudo-philosophy of a Sneeze | 73 |
| Chapter VII.—Quid Pro Quo. |
| Eccentricities of Taste; Miles of Pig-tail; Tobacco and Tea Calculations; Chewing Ladies of Paraguay; Tchuktchi Chewers; Tobacco and Natron Quids; Taking the “Bucca;” Chewing Snuff; Quidding in Washington; Dignified Proceedings in the Senate House; The Kou of the Hottentots; Angelica Root; Chewing Dulse; A Quidding Monkey | 94 |
| Chapter VIII.—A Race of Pretenders. |
| Adulterated Tobacco; Substitutes; Coltsfoot; Milfoil; Rhubarb; Bogbean; Sage; Mountain Tobacco; Cossena; Sumach; Bearberry; Maize Husks; Pimento; Cascarilla Bark; Polygonum; Dagga; Wild Dagga; Culen; Purphiok; Rope-smoking Chaplain; Farewell to Tobacco | 104 |
| Chapter IX.——“Mash Allah”—The Gift. |
| What is Opium? Indian Cultivation; The Nushtur; Cutting the Capsules; Collecting the Juice; Use of the Refuse; Post; Boosa; Poppy Trash; Pussewah and Lewah; Different Forms of Preparation; Chandu; Its Preparation in Singapore; Singular Workman; Adulterations; Tye and Samshing; Egyptian Conserves; Cordials; Modes of taking Opium; Immense Doses; Opium in the “Fen Country;” The Crow and the Pigeon; Estimate of Opium Consumption | 114 |
| Chapter X.—The Gates of Paradise. |
| Paradise of the Moslems; Siamese Opium-pipes; Chinese Opium-pipe; Smoking the Drug; Its Effects; An Old Malay; Opium Experiences; Dr. Madden’s Trial; The Habit in China; Dr. Medhurst’s Report; Victims at Shanghae; Percentage of Smokers; Amongst the Shikhs; Influence on those engaged in its preparation; Chinese petition; Results in China; Opium-eating poultry | 132 |
| Chapter XI.—Revels and Reveries. |
| Mahomet’s Ascent into Heaven; Mental Effects of Opium; An Opium-eater’s Reverie; At the Opera; Peeping into the Stores at Hong-Kong; Opium-shops; Papan Mera; Stores in Singapore; Opium in China; Remarks of M. AbbÉ Huc | 149 |
| Chapter XII.—Pandemonium. |
| Running amok in Java—in Singapore—in Batavia; Pains of opium; Piranesi’s dream; Confessions of crocodile visions; Horrible dreams; Fever phantasmagoria of “Alton Locke;” A fable; Chinese opium-smoker; Mustapha Shatoor; The Theriakis; Heu Naetse’s opinion; Experiences of a surgeon at Penang; Testimonies of AbbÉ Huc; Ho King Shan; Oppenheim; Dr. Madden; Dr. Oxley; Dr. Little; Opium and Insurance; Another side of the question | 163 |
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