Johann Neander
Johann Neander aka Johannes Neander (c.1596 Bremen – c.1630) was a German physician from Bremen, also a philosopher, writer and poet, best known for his 1626 work Tabacologia published by Isaac Elzevir of Leiden.[1][2][3]
Neander's work extolled the medicinal virtues of tobacco, but also warned of the dangers inherent in its abuse – it was, he said, "a plant of God's own making, but the devil is likewise involved; excesses ruined both mind and body." His information was gleaned mainly from sixteenth-century herbals, and the work also shows the earliest known illustrations of native Americans cultivating and curing tobacco.[4] Neander was particularly interested in tobacco's medicinal uses, and his work details several such remedies.
The book's illustrations are by Moses van Uyttenbroeck (c.1600–1646), a Dutch painter and engraver.
References
[edit]- ^ "WKP|Q15821352".
- ^ "Johannes Neander (1596?-1630?)".
- ^ "Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius præparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis". 1622.
- ^ "'This vile custome': A history of tobacco's medical interpretations". 22 December 2015.
