Pipes and Smoking.....

 


Pipes and Smoking.... 


1690's, Engelbert Kaempfer



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1740, Alexander Russell


Tobacco is smoked to excess by all the men and many of the women. Even the labourers or handicraft tradesmen constantly have a pipe in their mouths if they can afford it. Those pipes are made of the twig of a rose bush cherry tree, & c bored for that purpose: those of the better sort are five or six feet long and adorned with silver. The bole is of clay, and often changed; but the pipes themselves last for years. Many who are in easy circumstances have lately adopted the Persian manner of smoking the nargeery (r) which is an instrument so constructed that the smoke of the tobacco passes through the water before it comes into the mouth. The method of drawing it is different from that of a pipe and a good part of the smoke seems to descend some way into the breast. The Persian tobacco is what they use in this instrument, which has an agreeable flavour; attended with this further advantage, that, when smoked in this way, neither the taste or smell of it remain after washing the mouth.
The vulgar, in imitation of their superiors have at the coffee houses an ordinary instrument of the same construction: in this they use the common tobacco, wetted a little with dibbs and water or an infusion of raisin,s adding at times sbeera (s) to make it intoxicating and they will draw in such vast quantities of smoke, that when they throw it out again at the mouth and nostrils, it appears surprising where they found room to contain it.
(s) This appears to be the same with what in India they call bing and is no other than the leaves of the female hemp first powdered then put into wet pepper and covered with hot ashes till it forms a sort of paste which they press into a thin cake and then cut it into small lozenges and dry it. About half a drachm of this put into a pipe of tobacco or rather the nargeery and smoked with the tobacco will make a person drunk or rather mad and a few grains mixed with any thing sweet particularly as they say figs though perhaps what it is swallowed in is of little consequence will if taken inwardly have the fame effect. They affert that acids will immediately put a stop to its effects. This intoxicating quality of the hemp is mentioned by Galen

"vulgar (adj.) Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530). Chaucer uses peplish for "vulgar, common, plebeian" (late 14c.)." ==================================================================== 1820’s and 1830’s, Edward William Lane



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