Nicotine [SEP] named after
by Adolf Pinner and Richard Wolffenstein in 1893, and it was first synthesized by Amé Pictet and A. Rotschy in 1904.
Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant "Nicotiana tabacum," which in turn is named after the French ambassador in Portugal, Jean Nicot de Villemain, who sent tobacco and seeds to Paris in 1560, presented to the French King, and who promoted their medicinal use. Smoking was believed to protect against illness, particularly the plague.
Tobacco was introduced to Europe in 1559, and by the
runs under Mac OS X but with some difficulty.
Another such client, named Nicotine, ran on all Unix-based systems, such as Mac OS X, and on Microsoft Windows. It may still be available from some package distributors on Linux-based systems. Nicotine-Plus (also styled as Nicotine+) is a continuation of the older Nicotine client and is based on the original PySoulSeek project. Nicotine+ runs under Linux and Windows.
GoSeek is a Soulseek client for Android devices. It will not run on