"In like sort the rest of the Indians for their pastime do take the smoke of the Tabaco, to make themselves drunke withall, and to see the visions, and things that represent unto them, that wherein they do delight: and other times they take it to know their businesse and successe, because conformable to that whiche they haue seene, being drunke therewith, euen so they iudge of their businesse. And as the devil is a deceuer and hath the knowledge of the vertue of hearbs, so he did shew the vertue of this Hearb, that by the meanes thereof, they might see their imaginations and visions, that he hath represented unto them and by that meanes deceiue them." The Red Indians also used this herb when they were obliged to travel for several days "in a dispeopled countrie where they shal finde neither water nor meate." They rolled the leaves into small balls, which they put "betweene the lower lippe and the teeth and goe chewing it all the time that they trauell and that whiche they chew they swallow downe and in this sort they journey three or foure dayes without hauing neede of meate or drink, for they feele no hunger nor weaknesse nor their trauel doth trouble them." (This custom Monardes compares to that of the bear, which during the winter "remaineth in his Caue and liueth without meate or drink, with onely chewing his pawes"!) On its first introduction into Europe tobacco seems to have been regarded as a new all-heal, and in the city of Seville, we read, "they know not what other to doe, hauing cut or hurt themselves but to run to the Tabaco as to a most readie remedie. It doth meruellous workes, without any need of other Surgery, but this only hearbe." One chapter is devoted entirely to an account of various cures effected by tobacco, and it is interesting to read the authoritative account of the origin of the botanical name "Nicotiana." Monardes tells us that it was so called after Nicot, "my very friend ye first author inventer and bringer of this hearbe into France." It appears that "Maister John Nicot, being Embassador for his Maiestie in Portugall, in the yeere of our Lorde 1559, went one day to see the Prysons of the King of Portugall, and a Gentleman, being the Keeper of the said Prysons, presented him with this hearb as a strange plant brought from Florida." The same Maister Nicot, "hauing caused the said hearb to be set in his Garden, where it grewe and multiplyed maruellously," experimented with it, and amongst other things cured a young man who had a sore on his nose. Quite a number of cures were effected, the most interesting being that of one of Nicot's own cooks, who "hauing almost cutte off his thombe with a great Chopping Knife ran unto the said Nicotiane and healed it"!