Juan Fragoso, Discursos de las cosas aromáticas (Madrid, 1572)

A royal physician's book on the drugs of the East Indies whose title misdescribes it. The American materia medica keeps breaking into chapters named for Asian drugs — guayacán inside the chapter on China root, the Peruvian sunflower inside asafoetida, tobacco inside bangue — making the 1572 Madrid printing an early comparative pharmacopoeia of the two Indies. It also prints one of the plainer sixteenth-century sentences about what enslaved people in the Indies used tobacco for.