Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org The Hooka. Copperplate engraving showing a hookah, or Indian bubble-pipe. (Ives wrote that: ' the smoke passes through water before it enters the mouth, and is thereby very cool ... [the tobacco] too is of a mild kind ... made into a paste with sugar, scented ingredients, and rose-water, and thus smoking is made agreeable to persons who would otherwise dislike it ... [the Hookah] will serve to give a competent idea of all the pipes that are used throughout Asia.) Engraving 1773 A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / Edward Ives Published: 1773