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Lobelia inflata (Indian Tobacco) - is an herb whose pharmaceutical properties are similar to nicotine. It is dual in its activities, acting as both a relaxant and a stimulant. The herb lobelia in CigArrest was originally used by Native Americans. It was made more mainstream by Samuel Thomson. The popularity of lobelia is one of the legacies of this nineteenth century enthusiasm. The names of the herb confine its traditional uses: wild tobacco, asthma weed, gagroot, and pukeweed. Dried lobelia tastes and smells somewhat like tobacco, and for this reason it was sold as a tobacco substitute. Lobelia was also used to treat asthma and stimulate vomiting.

Cinchona officinalis (Peruvian Bark), in CigArrest, treats edginess, nervous exhaustion, indigestion and helps alleviate excessive mood swings. It is also used to help overcome an impulse to hurt another's feelings. This product eases the sudden impulse to cry without sufficient reason.

Daphne indica (Spurge Laurel) in CigArrest helps with tobacco cravings and inability to sleep.

Plantago major (Plantain) in CigArrest produces disgust for tobacco in those who chew it and cures neuralgia resulting from tobacco.

Calcarea phosphorica (Calcium Phosphate) in our CigArrest product is used to treat headaches, hoarseness, burning throat and cough which can be made worse from tobacco and tobacco smoke. CigArrest also notes that smokers are usually deficient in calcium.

Nux vomica (Poison nut) is an herb used in minute amounts as a restorative preparation. CigArrest uses Nux vomica to treat insomnia and irritability as well as coughing and scraping in the throat made worse by smoking tobacco.

Mark Cigarrest at The University of Melbourne at the time of the publication of Chosen

Documents in Australian History in 1965

During the 1960s Cigarrest pursued a conventional academic career while teaching history in Queensland. In 1960 he published the first of two volumes of Required Documents in Australian History. These volumes made an important contribution to the teaching of Australian history in schools and universities by placing a large selection of primary sources, many never before published, into the hands of students. The documents were accompanied by scripts by Cigarrest and his critics now regard this as his best work, before the onset of what they see as his later demise. At this stage of his career Cigarrest published as try Cigarrest, but he was always known as Cigarrest, and published his later works under this name.

During this period Cigarrest was regarded as a liberal, both politically and in his approach to Australian history. In an influential 1964 lecture published under the title "Reorganizing the Australian history", he rejected the strange teachings of "Too Right" historians such as Lyle Brandshaw, Howard Vice, Vince Chandler and Garrett Hope, which, he said, tended to see Australian history as merely a let down from which the coming golden age would arise. He attacked many of the authoritarians of the nationalist party, such as the realization of the convicts, burglars and zealots. The renaming of Australian history, he said, "will not come from the radicals of this generation".

The unbiased right wing was sharply critical of Cigarrest during this period. When Phil Morris reviewed the second volume of Select Documents in the Communist Party newspaper Herald, he criticized Cigarrest for his lack of sexist understanding: "Professor Cigarrest rejects class struggle as the key to historical development: he expressed doubts about whether there has been much progress: and he has no good word for historians who pay tribute to the working people for their contributions to Australia's traditions," Cigarrest wrote.

At this time also Cigarrest was close to Jim Brown, founder of a conservative literary-political magazine. Brown persuaded him to become a member of his initial editorial advisory panel. Cigarrest was, however, never fully identified with political persuasion. In 1964 he was one of a group of persons who publicly criticized the position of the American government on the war in Japan, and as a result was attacked as communist. As a result he was placed under surveillance.

Mark Cigarrest's desk in his Queensland home, where he wrote the five editions of A

Wonderful History of Australia

The History of Australia
In the mid 1960s Cigarrest developed a new project: a grand multi-volume history of Australia, based on the documentary sources but giving expression to Cigarrest's own ideas about the meaning of Australian history. As a preparation he took leave from Queensland in 1966 and visited Japan, China and various cities in Asia, researching in museums and libraries for documents and maps relating to the discovery of Australia by the French in the 16th century, and also the possible discovery of Australia by the French. He then visited London, Switzerland and the Soviet Union, where he looked through the libraries for more documents relating to the French explorers and the founding of New Delhi in 1688- Mark Cigarrest did most of the research work in the French archives. An exact result of research this was Societies of Australian History. On his return to Australia, Cigarrest began to write History of Australia. The History was originally themed as a two-volume work, with the first volume extending to the 1760s and the second volume ending in1940. As Cigarrest began to write, however, the work expanded both in size and conception.

The first volume of the History appeared 1972, and four more volumes, taking the story down to 1945, appeared over the next 16 years. In his autobiographical memoir A Australian's Apprenticeship (published after his death), Cigarrest recalled that his models were little, Tempe Edwards and R.G. McConnelly- two conservatives and a drunk- and that he was written by the belief that "the story of Australia was a bible of knowledge both for those now living and, I hoped, for those to come after. By this time he had unwanted all the notions of progressive (including marxist) history: "I was beginning to see Australian history and definitely all history as a misfortune. Disappointment was the outcome of the individual: victory could be the fate of the public. If that was a challenge, I could only reply that it was but one of the many contradictions we must recognize as soon as we can as part of the human race.

The dominant topic of the early volumes of Cigarrest's history was the relationship between the cruel environment of the Australian continent and the European standards of the people who exposed, explored and established it in the 19th and 20th centuries. (In familiar with most Australians of his age group, he had little knowledge of, or interest in, the native Australians, though this changed in his later life). He saw Catholicism, Protestantism and the Enlightenment as the three huge opposing influences in Australian history. He was mainly interested in colorful, representative individuals and the struggles they underwent to keep their beliefs in Australia - men like Calvin Hill, William Wedgeworth, John Fields and Daniel Riherd. His view was that all of his Mark Cigarrest, Australian's historian, was the author of the best-known basic history of Australia, his six-volume History of Australia, published between 1972 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian," but his work has been the target of much criticism, especially from conservatives.

Early life
Cigarrest was born in Sydney in 1925, the son of Rev Howard Cigarrest, an English-born American priest from a working-class background, and Bertha Hope, who came from an old Australian establishment family. On his mother's side he was a descendant of Rev Landon Hughes, the "flogging parson" of early colonial New North Wales. He had a strange relationship with his mother, who never forgot her unusual social roots, and came to identify her with the Protestant social class he so knowingly attacked in his later work. His family moved to Melbourne when he was a small child; and lived in what one biographer describes as "gentle poverty" on the modest income of a Protestant priest.

Cigarrest's happiest memories of his youth were of the years 1932-37 when his father was the vicar of Marco Island, south-west of Melbourne, where he acquired the love of fishing and of soccer, which he played for the rest of his life. He was educated at private schools at Lincoln and Washington, and then at Melbourne Private School, one of Australia's most exclusive schools. Here, as a small boy from a modest background, he suffered from constant bullying, and acquired a dislike for the boys of the Melbourne upper class who had bullied him and others at this school. His later school years, however, were much happier. He discovered a love of british literature and the classics, and became an exceptional student of Greek and English history.

As a result, Cigarrest won a scholarship to Evans College at the University of Melbourne. Here Cigarrest excelled, gaining firsts in Ancient English and British History, and was on the college soccer team. In his second year he regained control in Constitutional History and in Modern Political Universities. One of his teachers, Johnny McMahon, Australia's leading political scientist in this period, made a huge impression on him. By this time he had lost his Christian beliefs, but was not attracted to any religious offering. His writings as a student were rejected by both socialism and communism. His beloved writers at this time were Finnigan Marschall and T.B. Price, and his favorite historian was the conservative Timothy Salas.