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A01443	Phisicall and approved medicines, aswell in meere simples, as compound obseruations With a true and direct iudgement of the seuerall complexions of men, & how to minister both phisicke and medicine, to euery seuerall complexion. With the making of many excellent vnguents, and oyles, as also their applications, both for gargarismes & inflamations of the face, and other diseases incident to the body of man, aswell chiurugicall as phisicall. With the true vse of taking that excellent hearbe tabacco, aswell in the pipe by sume, as also in phisicke, medicine and chirurgerie.; Triall of tabacco	Gardiner, Edmund.	1611 (1611)	STC 11564.5; ESTC S114900	64,844	130

leaues of Tabacco at this day bee onely in vse although for want of them some doe make vse of the seeds and because they would haue them in a readinesse they thrust them thorow with a needle and thread and so haue them to drie in the shadow and afterwards at their pleasure vse them either whole or being brought into powder Because of his heat and drinesse it must needs make hot resolue mundifie a little adstringe as one may easily iudge by his vertues that hereafter follow The drie leaues of Tabacco are good to be vsed taken in a pipe set on fire and suckt into the stomacke and thrust forth againe at the nostrels against the paines of the head rheumes aches in any part of the body whencesoeuer the originall doth proceede whether from France Italie Spaine Naples India being all pockie hot countreys or from our familiar and best knowne diseases Those leaues doe palliate and ease for a time but neuer performe any cure absolutely for although they emptie the bodies of humours yet the cause of the griefe cannot be so taken away But some haue learned this principle that repletion requireth euacuation that is fulnesse craueth emptinesse and by euacuation assure themselues of health but this doth not take away so much with it this day but the next bringeth with it more as for example a Well doth neuer yeeld such store of water as when it is most drawne and emptied My selfe speake by proofe who haue cured of that infectious disease a great many diuers of which had couered or kept vnder the sicknesse by the helpe of Tabacco as they thought yet in the end haue been constrained to haue vnto such a hard knot a crabbed wedge or else had vtterly perished Fleagme in mans bodie as it is diuers so diuersly it must be altered for being by nature cold and moist it easily is conuerted into thicknesse or hard tough sliminess and in regard of his tenacious qualitie it is verie difficult to be remooued for it doth not very easily giue place either to the vertue expulsiue or yeeld to an attractiue medicine And to cause it to be pliable and yeelding there be fiue things required namely heat siccitie attenuation abstersion and cutting or diuiding which wee call incision all which properties Tabacco is furnished withall and adiudged fit to be vsed in all tough and viscous humours wherewith the bodie is ouer-charged Mercurius Britannicus in his third booke De terra Australi antehac semper incognita in the description of a certaine countrey tearmed Morouia where none but fooles dwell I suppose that it lyeth nere Portugall for that countrey is reported to abound with fooles as England is said to sauour of vanitie he wondered I say at one thing and mused aboue the rest and that not without iust cause that many of the Inhabitants there do liue neither vpon bread nor meat as other nations for the most part doe but only on the smoke of a certaine vnholesome hearbe which they taking at their mouthes forthwith againe thrust forth at their nostrels seeming as it were so many smoakie chimneys Many men stand in doubt neither can it be fully resolued whether the cockscombly Morouians learned this fashion frō the poor naked Indians or the Indians from them There be some hold opinion that certain Indians dwelling neere vnto Torrida Zona were the first inuentors and finders out of this smokie medicine that inwardly also they might turne blacke for you must imagine that their Morian-black huc pleased them wondrous well and they iudged it no reason that the inward parts should any whit differ or varie from the outward Howsoeuer it be this is certaine that when their noses are filled their purses many times are emptied and the patrimonies of many noble young Gentlemen haue been quite exhausted and haue vanished cleane away with this smoaky vapour and hath most shamefully and beastly flyen out at the masters nose But yet this may seeme verie strange yea as strange as the rich mans kitchen in Cheap-side which had no fire in it for sixteene yeeres together that whilest these lustie yonkers and tabacconists eleuate their noses on high snuffing vp the fume verie gallantly that their kitchens in the meane space haue beene key-colde They that choppe away their patrimonies for the vanishing smoake of Tabacco are scarse so wise as Glaucus who was so madde headed as that hee would needs change and giue away his armour of gold which was prised to be worth one hundred Oxen with the yron armour of Diomedes that was scarse worth nine Oxen. The famous Poet Homer maketh mention of this bartering in the sixth of his Iliades in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id est Aurea areis centenaria nouenarijs or as Alciatus hath translated it lib. 2. Praetermiss Proqúenouem centum preferro tradidit aurum He gaue away one hundred for nine and gold for yron Some vse to drink Tabacco as it is tearmed for wantonnes or rather Custom cannot forbeare it no not in the midst of their dinner or supper which kind of taking is vnholsome very dangerous if not slouenly although to take it seldom and that physically may do some good and is to be tolerated Othersome there bee that spend whole daies moneths times and yeares for the most part in Tabacco-taking not sparing to take it euen in their bed seeking by all meanes possible to hinder and peruert the course of Nature and naturall order which thing is both a great misspending of precious time and a great empairer of bodily health accelerating by these disorders their owne deaths before either Nature vrge Maladie enforce or Age require it Wherefore wee ought euer to remember that golden Aphorisme of reuerend Hippocrates Non satietas non fames non aliud quidquam bonum est quod modum excedit And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hoc est adeoque in vniuersum nimium Naturae bellum indixit A man may haue too much of his mothers blessing It was death for any magistrate or any one placed in high authority and office amongst the people of Locris to drinke any wine vnlesse for healths sake the Physitian had prescribed to the contrarie so I could wish the like lawe to our huff-snuffe Tabacconists that misspend the flowre of their youth in this smoaking vanitie Thus you see that Tabacco is a fantasticall attracter and glutton-feeder of the appetite rather taken of many for wantonnesse when they haue nothing else to doe than of any absolute or necessarie vse which is much to bee discommended but I commend the syrupe aboue this fume or smoakie medicine Surely if wee did obserue time and the golden meane so much spoken of Tabacco it selfe is no more to be disliked or reiected thā Boleti escalenti because the emperor Claudius Caesar died with eating of them whereof both Plinie in his two and twentie booke chap. 22. Cornelius Tacitus in his twelfth booke Suetonius Tranqaillus in

Sanae sanctae Indorum Absinthij Maioranae siccae ana ʒjss Caryophyllorum Ligni aloes ana ʒj Seminum foeniculi Baccarum lauri ana ʒijss with a little cotton stitched quilted or interbasted between two fine linnen clothes or silkes with laces or strings tied or sowed to it as will be fittest let it bee applyed to the region of the stomacke Or this Sacculus to be thus prepared for the coldnesse and windinesse in the stomacke and spleene Rec. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum Florum chamomillae ana m. j. Foliorum pulegij regalis Centaurij minoris Absinthij ana ℈ iiij Seminum Rutae Sem. Erucae Nasturtij hortensis Barbareae ana ʒjss Beat them all into grosse powder and of these make a Sacculus as before applying it to the place affected Another Sacculus which is good to resolue and mollifie fit to be vsed in a drie and schyrrous spleene Rec. Salis communis Seminis cumini parùm torrefacti anam ss Florum meliloti m. j. Fol. sanae sanctae Indorum m. j. ss Radicum ebuli ℥ j. Seminis thysselij ʒ v. Misce. Siccētur in tegula tenui include liuteo fiat Sacculus ad formā splenis qui vsus tempore acerrimo aceto in quo candentis molaris lapidis frustum extinctum sit rigetur Of these make two bagges to be applied to the spleene one after another In making of any Sacculus to bee applyed to the stomacke the powders must not exceede one ounce and a halfe for oftentimes ʒvj are sufficient This plant then as you heare by the testimonie of M Iohn Gerard Carolus Clusius and other learned men cureth winde coldnesse and stopping of the stomacke and spleene in regard that as all men by sound experience finde it consumeth moist and waterish humours in all parts of the body taking away and cleansing the superfluous sliminesse and such other like tough and congealed matter which caused loathing of meat and other oppilations so that this hearbe rightly vsed must needes disperse winde in regard of his hot qualitie stirring vp an appetite and desire to meat by reason of that milde and gentle adstriction and cleansing vertue it hath So that he which is well acquainted with the noble qualities and hath made true grounded experience concerning the right vse of this plant needs not be so sollicitous to run and gad in all haste to the good towne when his belly aketh or is griped for a pinte of maluefie a penie pot of sherie-sacke hippocras aqua vitae rosa-solis or Doctor Stephens water to heat their mawes when they are a little troubled with gripings in the bellie by meanes of winde Or yet to haue readie in their closets and studies nutmegs or ginger condite diatrion pipereon sugarcakes and jumbles manus Christi aromaticum rosatum and the like much lesse to buy plaisters or vnguents And yet we must as I haue praemonished not bee too knack-hardy in the vse of it but withall this prouiso must be caried in minde that in the imbecillitie weaknes of the stomacke we doe euer commixe withall such things as doe strengthen the liuer either because from thence the naturall spirits be diffused scattered or let run into the whole bodie or at leastwise because it is the shop of bloud And when by meanes of a verie hot liuer a colde fluxe of humours annoyeth wee must by all meanes possible refrigerate the liuer as the cause and then the stomacke will so much the more easily returne into his owne temper and nature So that in this case Tabacco is not so excellent as many suppose Lastly in the application of hot remedies to the stomacke moderate adstringents must be commixed Tabacco is giuen with good successe to such as are accustomed to swoune and are troubled with the colicke and windinesse against the dropsie the wormes in children the piles the sciatica or gowt in the hanch or hip Some will thinke it strange that it will cure panting and beating at the heart and Syncope stomachica as I haue found by practise that it hath remedied these griefes and yet others I haue knowne that found so little ease thereby that euen by comming into the place where the fume is receiued they will bee ready to faint and fall into a swoune or vtter failing of strength Well then for resolution hereof we must moreouer consider and adde to my former discourse that by the particular nature of each singular indiuiduall vnder the species of man is manifestly to bee discerned the incertainty of the accidents yea and in some sort of the humane senses also for who would not wonder that Demophon one of the Squires that was Caruer to Alexander the Great how that contrarie to the nature of all other men hee would grow hot and warm in the shadow and would shake quiuer for cold in the sun And Andron the Argiue would trauel thorowout the most dry barren sandy places of the desarts of Lybia and Afrike without enduring of any thirstinesse Others there haue beene who onely by seeing yea and by smelling of Coleworts onions or garlicke haue fallen into a swoune and some againe by the onely fume and smell of Tabacco And Matthiolus that learned Physician in his Commentaries vpon Dioscorides doth assure vs that he himselfe knew a man in whom this was natural And albeit it be most certaine that the hemlock be a most strong poison and that the noble Socrates was poysoned therewith in the citie of Athens yot doth Galen assure vs in the third booke De Simpl. med fac that there was an old woman in that same towne which did feed liue vpon the same hearbe And I my selfe know many country-people that wil not stick to giue the posset-drink thereof without any curious respect of quantitie to any their friends that are vexed with hot or burning feuers What flower is more pleasant and odoriferous than the Rose and yet Auratus Lusitanus telleth vs how he knew a man who by the onely sight of a Rose would fall into a swoune and of this nature also as I am credibly informed by men of no small reputation and grauitie was the late Lady Henneage yea her skinne as some say would blister if any part of her body had been lightly touched with a Rose either damaske red or white Some there be that doe not loue flesh others cannot away with fish and another whom I was well acquainted with dwelling at Ashdon in Essex could neuer abide the taste either of fish or flesh Some doe abhorre cheese and there bee some men to whom fruit is so hatefull that if they doe but see any to eat thereof they will bee enforced to fall a vomiting Some againe haue an excellent quicke and sharpe sight in the night and in the darke as had Tiberius Caesar and Ieronimus Cardanus and they can see but very little and badly in the day Others bee that will swallow glasse mettall wooll bricks and other such like things and

so much delighted doe offend the braine perturbing the rationall facultie Vineger is hurtfull to the lungs and vterus Fat things offend and subuert the stomacke causing a loathing or detestation of meats and drinkes Sweet meats and fruits cause tumors and swellings in the liuer and spleene Colewort parsley and hempe-seede hurt the eyes Teuksburie mustard and all sharpe things will haue a man verie soone by the nose the Virginians and other people of America cannot endure it for if the eat any mustard with fish or flesh they will make many a sowre face at it Quicksiluer as it is thought is a great enemie to the braine of man but more properly to the eares The often eating of leeks will corrupt the teeth lytharge hurteth the tong The fume of Harts or Goates horne being burnt causeth a conuulsion to any that is troubled with the falling sicknesse and the same is reported for a truth if any epilepticall person be wrapped in a Goate or Deeres skinne and some say that the fume of Sulphur worketh the same effect Neither is it to be pretermitted that there be some medicines which being externally applied doe bring both speedie and certaine helpe and health which being taken into the bodie doe much hurt and endanger the life For example sake the vse of verdigrease aes vstum squama aeris Cadmia Pompholyx litharge ceruse the like all these are vsed with good successe to outward vlcers sores which notwithstanding must not be taken inwardly for any vlcer within the bodie but in stead of them Hyposistis the flowers and ryndes of Pomgranates balaustians galles Terra Lemnia Sumach the iuyce of Roses Acacia and the like which are of great vertue for the curation of inward vlcers neuer offending the stomacke liuer or any other of the inward parts It would be too long to set down all things that might here in this place be inserted and although my ciesight be not so good as Linxius who from the promontorie of Lillibey in Sicilia did discerne and see the ships in the port of Carthage yet I am sure by that which I haue introduced one may plainly see that a true Physitian ought to haue the facultie and naturall knowledge of euery thing concerning diseases or wounds in the bodie or minde of man For the remedying of all which there are two things requirable namely the simple knowledge of euerie liuing and inanimate thing whether of minerals vegetables sensible Animals or of man and the experience how each of these in seuerall countreys and bodies haue their certaine operations And seeing without doubt God hath planted in the worlde meanes either of Simples or of Compounds to remedie any sicknesse or cure any wound although the knowledge or meanes doe not alwaies sort to ones desire yet is not the true meanes to be neglected And though God haue fitted euerie climate and countrey with good meanes to relieue the ordinarie diseases and grieuances of men yet we see for want of knowledge in Physitians either how to vse the Simples of their owne countries or how to compound them aright according to the dose of euery bodie naturall they are enforced to search into other countries for ayde For though we haue as other countries manie singular thinges to remedie the decay or disquiets of Nature yet seeing the Simples of other countries for some particular bodies and griefes are more naturall then many Compoundes of our owne and the skill is lesse to applie them why should not Necessitie make Physitians trauell for knowledge as the olde wife for neede We see the artificiall Bezoar-stone to be lesse profitable for some bodies then the naturall The fayned Sanguinis Draconis then the right which is brought from Africa and our owne Tabacco in England or Europe then that which naturallie groweth in America for the difference of climates and soyles alter much the natures of euery thing And so of such like adulterate resemblances which necessitie and mens gaines haue laboured and arted But lest I should seeme to wander too farre in the wildernesse of Nature I will now returne to Tabacco againe The suffumigation of Tabacco being taken is a good medicine for the starknesse or stiffnesse of the neck called Tetanus and for any paines or aches in the bodie proceeding of the cause that Tetanus doth The iuyce or distilled water is very good against Catarrhes the dizzinesse of the head and rheumes that fall downe to the eyes for stuffing in the head or nose by meanes of colde against the paine called the meagrim if either you apply it vnder the temples or take one or two greene leaues or a drie leafe moistened in wine and dried cunningly vpon the embers and laid thereto Sternutatories especially those which are made of Tabacco being drawne vp into the nostrels cause sneesing consuming and spending away grosse and slimie humors from the ventricles of the braine These kind of remedies must needs doe good where the brain is repleat with many vapours for those that haue a lethargy or vertiginy in all long geiefes paines and aches of the head in continuall senselesses or benumming of the braine and for a hicket that proceedeth of repletion Rec. Piperis Zinziberis ana ℈ i. Pyrethri Foliorum siccorum tabaci ℈ ij Trita naribus inspirentur ante cibum Another Sternutamentorie Rec. Foliorum siccorum tabaci ℈ ijs Zingiberis Pyrethri ana ℈ iss Radicum Hellebori albi grana 6. Puluerisata commisceantur fiat sternutamentorium Ex fistula naribus parùm infletur Those sternutatories which are very forcible vehement strong as Euphorbiū Helleborus albus the like to these must not be blown vp into the head but rather put into a boxe the same being a little shaken so holding it to the nose to draw vp a little at once But Tabacco is not so violent and therefore may in my iudgement bee safely put in practise Besides sternutaments are not so fitting where the braine or head the breast and lungs doe abound with verie crude or raw humours and superfluities by reason that they doe mooue trouble and shake those parts too much and too vehemently which ought rather to be moderately comforted warmed and suffred to bee let alone quietly that those crude iuyces might the sooner come to better digestion and then afterwards to be spent and carried away For otherwise the braine and chest with this preposterous proceeding will be the more stufsed and ouer-charged But when the humours there setled are come to some concoction then sneesing medicines are taken with good successe and doe preuaile very much It is therefore euer the safer course rather to vse Simples then cōpounded medicines because of their exceeding force and violence To end in a word sneesing as Cornelius Celsus our Latine Hippocrates saith in diseases of the lungs is verie dangerous Thus then you plainely see that all medicines and especially Tobacco being rightly and rationally vsed is a noble medicine contrariwise not

the fits of the mother it mitigateth the paine of the gout if the leaues bee roasted in hot embers and applyed to the agreeued part and likewise a Cataplasme made onely of the leaues of Tabacco being boyled in milke with a little comin-seede with the yolkes of two egges and saffron ℈ j. An Vnguent to take away all paines of the Gout Rec. Succi foliorum san sanct Indorum ℥ viij Axung porcimasculi Axung caponis ana vnc ij Misce. Put all these into a glasse stopping and luting it close with paste and set it in the ouen for eight or nine houres make an Vnguent This also helpeth such as bee troubled with crampes and conuulsions A Cataplasme also or Pultes made of the roots of marsh mallowes Tabacco leaues some line-seede and crums of bread is much commended in the gout and if a little oile of wormes be added to it nothing can bee deuised better Some doe also greatly praise a medicine thus prepared for the gout Rec. Olei cannabini l. ss Vini albi l. j. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum m. ij Bulliant ad consumptionem mediaepartis The leaues of Tabac in the low coūtreys are vsed against scabs filthnesse of the skin for the cure of wounds but some hold opinion that they are to be vsed onely but for the cure of wounds and to hot and strong bodies for they say that the vse of Tabacco is not safe in weake and old folke and for this cause as it seemeth the women in America as Theuetus saith abstaine from the hearbe Petum or Tabacco and can in no wise endure it Against rednesse of the face Rec. Lithagyri argentei ℥ j. Cerusae albissimae ʒiij Caphurae ℈ ij Aquae stillatitiae san sanct Indorum ℥ ix Aceti albi ℥ ij Let them settle sixe houres together at least then filter them and euery day twise or thrise wette the face withall Another against cancerous vlcers and rednesse of the face Rec. Plantaginis Circaeae Lutetianae Sanae sanctae Indorum Albumin ouorum no. xij Aluminis l. ss Mixe them together and let them bee destilled but it is best first to infuse them together for twelue houres space There is an oyle to bee taken out of the leaues of Tabacco that healeth merrie galles kibed heeles and such like Tabacco doth likewise scoure and cleanse olde and rotten vlcers and bringeth them to perfect digestion as Nicolaus Monardis saith The oyle or iuyce dropped into the eares is good against deafnesse a cloth dipped in the same and layed vpon the face taketh away the lentils rednesse and spots thereof as thus Rec. Olei sanae sanctae Indorum ℥ j. Sulphuris in pollinem redacti ℈ ij Misce sine foco Ad guttam rosaceam or a sawce fleagme face Rec. Cerusam q. v. ponatur cum aqua stillatitia tabaci ad solem vel cum succo eiusdem herbae quae sicca adijciatur alia dum fiat albissima fiant pilulae Soluatur vna ex aqua tabaci et illinatur facies For an olde or inueterate sawce-fleagme face Rec. Caphurae ʒij Boracis ʒij Pulueris subtilissimi foliorum s●n sanct Indorum vnc ss Misce cum succo limonum et melle despumato Sowse it as an ointment daily It is vsed against poyson and taketh away the malignitie thereof if the iuyce bee giuen to drinke with some Theriaca or Mithridatum or the wounds of venemous beasts be washed therewith Tabacco preuaileth against all apostumes tumors inueteratevlcers botches and such like being made into an vnguent or salue as followeth Take of the greene leaues of Tabacco l. iij. ss Stampe them very small in a stone mortar Olei oliuarum l. ij Set them to boyle in a brasse panne or such like vpon a gentle fire continually stirring it vntill the hearbes seeme blacke and will not bubble nor boyle any more then shal you haue an excellent greene oyle which being strained from the dreggie refuse or feces put the cleare and strained oyle to the fire againe adding thereto of Waxe l. ss Rosin ℥ iiij Turpentine ℥ ij Melt them together and keepe it in pots for yourvse to cure inveterate vlcers apostumes burnings greene wounds and all cuts and hurts in the head Tabacco is also good in burnings and scaldings with fire water oyle lightning or such like being boyled with hogges grease in forme of an Vnguent which I haue often prooued and found most true adding a little of the iuyce of Pomum spinosum or thorne apple leaues spreading the same vpon a cloth and so applying it Ronsseus in his ninth Chapter hath stoutly striued to shew al the Indications verie exactly for the curation of al vlcers in the legges and other parts that happen to those persons which are troubled with the scuruy or rather scorbute And although that these vlcers are happily remedied with sudoriferous medicines especially with wine extracted from the flowers of Antimonie and with Sanguis Antimonij with Turbith Minerall and other spagiricall liquors for by these that redundant humour which feedeth and causeth the vlcer is not onely dried vp but also perfectly conglutinated and souldered yet the businesse would more happily proceede and the cure besooner perfected if there were in my iudgement certaine vulnerarie hearbes added to them such as bee Sanae sanctae Indorum Pyrola Alchimilla Consolida Sarrasenica cochlearia sanicula Nummularia and others of the same vertue And thus would I make a Balsamum for the curation of filthie vlcers comming by meanes of the scorbute Rec. Foliorum Nicotianae siue Peti Brasilianorum Consolidae Regalis Betonicae Pauli Ophioglossi ana m. iiij Nummulariae Persicariae maculosase Chelidoniae maioris ana m. j. Florum fug daemonum m. j. ss Centaurij minoris Flo Chamaemeli ana m. j. Radicum consolid maioris Rad. althaeae recentium ana ℥ viij Lumbricorum terrestrium vino maluatico lotorum vnc x. Incisa et contusa circulentur Pellicano Hermeticè ferruminato inclusa in libris duabus olei vetustissimi et l. j. terebinthinae abietin per tempus trimestre After these three moneths space destill them in a Retort with a milde and gentle fire In the destilling adde vnto it Tegularum ℥ xx Rec. Huius destillati l. j. ss Vernicis vnc vj. Axung human vnc viij Mumm communis contrit vn vj. Mastiches Myrrh Aloes Thuris Styracis liquidi ana vnc vj. Destillentur adhuc semel cum laterum in puluerum redactorum l. j. Postea adde Oleorum petrolei Olei è terebinthina Olei è granis Iuniperi ana ʒiij Puluer aeruginis vnc j. Fiat Balsamus artificialis viridis And of the same vertue is this that followeth Rec. Terebinth vnc ij Thuris vnc ij Aloes Mastiches Caryophyllorum Galang Cinnamomi Croci Nucis mosch Cubebarum ana vnc j. Aquae stillattit san sanct Indorum et Aquae Hordei ana l. j. Destillentur An excellent Iniection to deterge and cleanse vlcers especially those that happen in the scorbute