Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John White

  • The divine leaf: Physick and the cause for physick

    Lynn Veach SadlerBurlington, NC, United States Columbus is believed to have rebuked his crew for sharing the Indians’ “drinking” of the smoke of tobacco through toboca/tobaga pipes and chewing its dried leaves. He was among the first to discover its addictiveness. The Whites in his wake also smoked the calumet and received, legend claims, knowledge from…