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.

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  1. ^ "WKP|Q15821352".
  2. ^ "Johannes Neander (1596?-1630?)".
  3. ^ "Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianæ descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius præparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis". 1622.
  4. ^ "'This vile custome': A history of tobacco's medical interpretations". 22 December 2015.