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A87472	The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ...; Two broad-sides against tobacco.	Hancock, John, fl. 1638-1675.; Hancock, John, fl. 1669-1705.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco. 1676.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?; Thomson, George, fl. 1648-1679. Aimatiasis. Selections. 1676.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards. 1676.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered. 1676.; Everard, Giles. De herba panacea. English. Selections. 1676.; Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1676 (1676)	Wing J144A; ESTC R42598	56,406	78

and clogs in the percolation A third injury and common manifest prejudice from intemperate drinking is An imbecillity of the Nerves which is procured from the disorderly motions of the Animal Spirits being impulsed and agitated preternaturally by the inebriating spirits of strong Liquors which vibration being frequent begets a habit and causeth a trepidation of Members Transcribed verbatim out of Doctor Maynwaring's Treatise Of long Life That it may not be said to be onely one Doctors Opinion here is added another Collection against Tobacco-smoking written by the learned Doctor George Thompson in his Book Of Preservation of the Bloud A Bove all I much condemn the common abuse of Tobacco out of which no other symptomes than a scorbutical Venome is accidentally sucked Agreeable to which Judgment of mine is that of the Legitimate Artist Doctor Maynwaring who marks where Tobacco is much taken the Scurvy doth most abound I wish those who are too forward to condemn Chymical Preparations ordered by true Philosophers would reflect upon themselves and others as yet ignorant of Pyrotomy how that they are too forward in rushing into this Science Indirectly making use of a Retort with a receiver I mean a Pipe and the mouth for the reduction of this Plant into Salt and Sulphur proving not a little injurious to them If they were conscious how subtil an enemy it is how hardly to be dealt withall in a moderate sense how insinuating tempting deluding how disagreeing to nature as is manifest at first taking it pretending an evacuation onely of a superfluous moisture when it also generates the same how it wrongs the Ventricle by reason of a continuity of its membrane with that of the mouth how it taints the nutricious Juyce how it dozes the Brain impairing its Faculties especially the memory They would quickly commit this Herb to the hand of those that know what belongs to the right management and improvement thereof I confess it hath a Dowry bestowed upon it which may make it very acceptable to all ingenious Artists for inward and outward uses yet as the matter is handled indiscreetly I know nothing introduced into this Nation hath discovered it self more apparently hurtful in aggravating and graduating this scorbutical evil among us then Tobacco I am not ignorant what some Object That there are those who taking an extraordinary quantity of Tobacco have lived a to great age as Sixty or Seventy Years 2. That multitudes not taking this fume are yet notwithstanding over run with the Scurvy 3. That some have protested they have received certain benefit by this Plant when other Remedies prescribed by able Physitians have been invalid to relieve them 4. That there are places where Man Woman and Child take in this Smoke none of these sad effects appearing As to the first I answer One Swallow makes no Summer I reckon this among raro contingentia I have known one very intemperate in Dier live to the fore-mentioned age but doubtless had he Regulated himself according to the Rules of Mediocrity he might have doubled that age Innate Strength of Body doth carry a man sometimes through that without any great damage which destroys another 2. I do not affirm that this Vegetable is the sole Co-adjuvant cause of the Scurvy it being certain there are many Promoters thereof Besides yet granted that your great Compotators Ventricolae Gormandizers who have as the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lazy panches little else to do but to take Tobacco to pass away the time filling Pipe after Pipe as fast as possible they can exhaust it are commonly incident to this feral Malady Hereupon this very same specifick Disease may be diffused and communicated to others by expiration or ffluvium sent out of a Body infected therewith so that it seems rare to me that the Wife should be exempted from this Cacoettick Sickness if the Husband be afflicted therewith or the Husband be free if the Wife be vexed Doubtless some Peoples Breath doth exceedingly taint the Air to the great annoyance of others 3. I condemn not medicinal appropriation and application of this Drug for I knòw it to be of excellent Vertue There is great difference Inter dictum secundum quid dictum simpliciter between the censure of any thing as absolutely evil and the indirect practise of it Moreover what is one man's Meat may be anothers Poyson 4. The generality of smoking it in some places without those ill effects we find doth not at all frustrate my assertion For I have observed a more moderate course of life in Diet the goodness of the Air with an hereditary Custome hath in great measure ballanced the nocument or inconveniences which otherwise they would have contracted by excess thereof neither are these numerous Tobacconists acquitted from this evil as it appears by those frequent eruptions in the skin whereby a greater mischief is prevented within they being only efflorescences of a scorbutical pravity There are as I apprehend two principal Reasons to be given why this Weed hath captivated so many Thousands in such sort that they become meer Slaves to it One is the seeming delight it affords in the present taking thereof inducing a pleasing bewitching melancholy exceedingly affecting their Fancies so that they could wish with him in the Poet Hic furor ô superi sit mihi perpetuus O that I might alwayes thus melancholize not considering though the Prologue be chearful the Epilogue is often sad though the Spirits are as it were titillated and charmed into a sweet complacency for a short space yet afterward a dulness gloominess seizes upon them indeed how can it be otherwise seeing they are but forcibly lulled into this secure placid Condition by that which is as far remote from the Vitals as the Beams of the Sun are from a black Cloud I find in this Smoke a stinking retunding condensing Opiatelike Sulphur and an acrid Salt profligating extimulating so that by the bridling much of the one and the excessive spurring of the other the spirits like a free metalsome Horse are quite tired out at last It is impossible that the frequent insinuations of this subtil fume making shew of affinity but quite of another tribe with the animals should not at length let a body be never so strong and custom how ever prevalent either pervert or subvert his well constituted frame Another Reason observable only by those that are true Gnosticks of themselves why Tobacco is so highly set by and hath so many Followers is its meretricious kisses given to those that embrace it oftentimes secretly wounding them mortally yet are they not throughly sensible who gave them the stroke I have taken notice of very temperate Persons in other things who for diversion have indulged their genious ad Hilaritatem continuing for urbanitysake in Company they liked longer then ordinary have so closely pursued this pernicious Art of sucking in the smoke of this Herb that never any Chymist was more solicitous in greater hast to fetch

The Touchstone OR TRIAL OF TOBACCO Whether it be good for all Constitutions With a Word of Advice against immoderate Drinking and Smoaking LIKEWISE Examples of some that have drunk their Lives away and died suddenly With King JAME's Opinion of Tobacco and how it came first into England Also the first Original of Coffee To which is Added Witty Poems about Tobacco and Coffe something about Tobacco written by George Withers the late Famous Poet. The Picture Represents the Tobacchonists Armes and Turks Coffee-House COFFEE a kind of Turkish Renegade Has late a match with Christian water made A Coachman was the first here Coffee made And ever since the rest drove on the trade Me no good Engalash and sure enough He plaid the Quack to salve his Stygian stuff Ver boon for de stomach de Cough de Ptisick And I believe him for it looks like Physick London Printed and are to be Sold by the several Booksellers 1676. To all Taverns Inns Victualling-Houses Ale-houses Coffee-houses Strong-water-shops Tobacconists-shops in England Scotland or Ireland Gentle Readers HEre is presented to you a Brief Learned and a very seasonable Treatise for the Age we live in It was many years since Penned by King James of happy and blessed Memory Entituled A Counterblast to Tobacco It it here verbatim faithfully transcribed out of the large and learned Volume of His other Works in Folio which are rare and scarce to be had for money and of too great a price for the common sort of Tobacco-smokers to purchase It is granted the thing may be good and Physical and healthful being moderately and but seldom taken but for men to take ten or twenty Pipes in a day in all Companies Morning Noon and Night before and presently after Meals this is a strange way of taking Physick Now the King understanding the evil Custom of taking Tobacco or as we now call it smoking a Pipe was grown to a great head he seems to be very much insensed at it and discovers how it first came into England and its first Original and how that it was used much amongst the savage Indians to cure Lewes Venerea a Disease among them His Majesty wisely fore-seeing the evil consequences that would follow by such immoderate sucking in the foul smoke of this Indian Weed and He being the Physician of the Body Politick doth by many strong and excellent Arguments disswade his Subjects from imitating the practise of the Heathen Indians in drinking this noxious fume It was in his Time but a Novelty and practised but a little except amongst the Nobility Gentry or great Ones But now what is more frequently used in every Ale-house and Coffee-house besides great Inns and Taverns in London and all the Three Kingdoms over Whereas if men were so wise for their own good both in Body Soul and Estate as to handle a good Book either of Divinity or of Morality half so often as they do the Pipe of smoke it would be better for them in all respects more precious time and money would be saved I shall detain you no longer from a more learned Epistle and Treatise of the matter in hand And as King Solomon who was the wisest of Kings saith in his Book of Ecclesiastes That where the word of a King is there is power so I say If what our famous King James hath written be not of Power sufficient to divert all English men c. from this evil and hurtful Custom It is here seconded and backed home by the words and advice of an able and learned Doctor of Physick now living it being so sutable to the purpose was thought fit to be added to this Counterblast And that it may not be said as the common Proverb is To be only one Doctors opinion I have thought fit to add another Collected out of a Treatise Of the Bloud written by that learned Physician Dr. George Thompson who agreeth with the former against smoking Tobacco as dangerous I apprehend that what hath been spoken against drinking Tobacco may much more be said against immoderate drinking of Wine Ale Beer or any strong Liquors and Dishes of Coffee c. Thus hoping thou wilt make a good use of what is here gathered together and offered for thy good I rest A Well-wisher to thy Health J. H. To the Reader AS every humane body dear Country-men how wholsome soever is notwithstanding subject or at least naturally inclined to some sorts of Diseases or Infirmities So is here no Common-wealth or Body-Politick how well governed or peaceable soever it be that lacks their own popular Errors and naturally inclined Corruptions And therefore it is no wonder although this our Country and Common-wealth though peaceable though wealthy though long flourishing in both be amongst the rest subject to their own natural Infirmities We are of all Nations the people most Loving and most reverently Obedient to our Prince yet we are as time hath often born witness too easie to be seduced to make Rebellion upon very slight grounds Our fortunate and oft-proved Valour in Wars abroad our hearty and reverent Obedience to our Princes at home hath given us a long and thrice-happy Peace our Peace hath bred wealth And Peace and Wealth hath brough forth a general sluggishness which makes us wallow in all sorts of idle Delights and soft Delicacies the first seeds of the subversion of all great Monarchies Our Clergy are become negligent and lasie our Nobility and Gentry prodigal and sold to their private Delights Our Lawyers covetous our common People prodigal and curious and generally all sorts of People more careful for their private ends then for their Mother the Common-wealth For remedy whereof It is the King's part as the proper Physician of his Politick Body to purge it of all those Diseases by Medicines meet for the same as by a certain mild and yet just form of Government to maintain the Publick quietness and prevent all occasions of Commotion by the example of his own Person and Court to make us all ashamed of our sluggish Delicacy and to stir us up to the practice again of all honest Exercises and martial shadows of War as likewise by His and His Courts moderateness in Apparel to make us ashamed of our Prodigality By his quick Admonitions and careful over-seeing of the Clergy to waken them up again to be more diligent in their Offices By the sharp Tryal and severe Punishment of the partial covetous and bribing Lawyers to reform their Corruptions And generally by the example of His own Person and by the due execution of good Laws to reform and abolish piece and piece these old and evil-grounded Abuses For this will not be Opus unius Diei but as every one of these Diseases must from the King receive the one Cure proper for it so are there some sorts of Abuses in Common-wealths that though they be of so base and contemptible a condition as they are too low for the Law to look on and