Engelbert Kaempfer in 1712 describes addiction to …
Years: 1712 - 1712
Engelbert Kaempfer in 1712 describes addiction to madak, the blend of opium and tobacco: "No commodity throughout the Indies is retailed with greater profit by the Batavians than opium, which [its] users cannot do without, nor can they come by it except it be brought by the ships of the Batavians from Bengal and Coromandel."
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- Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
- Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company")
