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A01444	The triall of tabacco Wherein, his worth is most worthily expressed: as, in the name, nature, and qualitie of the sayd hearb; his speciall vse in all physicke, with the true and right vse of taking it, aswell for the seasons, and times, as also the complexions, dispositions, and constitutions, of such bodies, & persons, as are fittest: and to whom it is most profitable to take it. By E.G. Gent. and practicioner in physicke.	Gardiner, Edmund.	1610 (1610)	STC 11564; ESTC S105693	61,756	124

as I said euen now Hippocrates himselfe expresly auerreth writing that a moist diet is best fitting for those persons that haue any Feuer adding yet further Especially saith he to children such as haue been long vsed and acquainted themselues by custom to such a diet and consequently we must yeeld somewhat to custome for he saith that bad meats and drinkes being accustomably taken are farre safer than others if a man should sodainely alter old custom and take others farre holesomer F●… if one di●… which ha●…h not v●…ed himselfe to it hee is by by made weaker heauy dul lumpish lazie sickish and if besides this he take his supper hee shall soone feele windinesse sowre belchings and loosenesse of the belly for the stomacke being repleat and ouercharged with such an vnusuall burthen which before was wont to bee drie and emptie now swelleth distendeth and with paine stretcheth it selfe out So yet againe there be some laboring men which hauing stomacks like Estriches will disgest yron and fall to their victuals thrice in a day without any bones at all for Ieiunus stomachus rarò v●…lgaria temnit Hungry dogges will eat thirtie puddings ●…s the Irish man said There be others found which will make a good large dinner but take no suppers at all and contrariwise so that if contrarieto custome they do●…suppe they shall finde themselues to be troubled with heauinesse in the belly so that they cannot sleep without much tumbling and tossing So then my conclusion is that if one haue but accustomed himselfe to take Tabacco hee must not sodainely leaue it but by degrees So that it is no maruell if any not acquainted with taking the fume of this hearbe if it cause a vertiginie or giddinesse in the braine epilepticall accessions inclinations to fainting and sounding head-ach dimnesse of sight and other different effects as I haue often seene We may say the like of wine ale beere and the like to which diuers men are not inured but by long custome How great the force power of this cruell tyrant Custome is that creepeth in by little little insinuating and cōueighing himself slily into our natures so that at length he will be so malepart as to vendicate the whole rule and gouernment of our bodies prescribing and limiting new lawes euen such as it selfe pleaseth and abrogating olde ancient orders constitutions and fashions Theophrastus in his 9. booke de Histor. Plantar Cap. 18. plainly sheweth by the example of one Thrasias who durst venture to eat whole handfuls of Helleborus albus and of Eudemus Chius who sitting one day in the open mercate tooke two and twentie potions of the same Helleborus and after that went to supper and dispatcht his other ordinarie affaires busines without any vomiting or perturbation of stomacke or bodie Hee had by degrees accustomed his bodie to it by first taking a little at once afterwards he encreased the quantitie by little and little vntill at length he durst take so much thereof as was incredible and neuer felt hurt Sithence therefore that neither reason nor Philosophie can bridle or ouer-rule the power and force of custome it is no maruell though mans bodie be ouer-mastred therwith which in my conceit ought to be a good lesson to many Physicians to regard and marke well the proper constitution and state of euerie mans bodie to what he hath bin most inclined or accustomed being withall very diligent and carefull to administer nothing rashly and at aduenture as many blinde medicine-giuers and receitmen doe neither yet any desperate or vnknowne thing vnto any for such are no better than murtherers before God if their Patients prooue not well vnder them Neither let couetousnesse ouer-rule them as those Physicians and Surgeons that dally with mens bodies to get much money but let euery one account it his dutie to doe good to all And in so doing they shall finde God their Phisician not onely of their bodies but of their soules whereas otherwise the saying of our nation may be applied fitly vnto them Physicians cure your selues The 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 Fritannicus in his third booke De terra Australi an●…hac 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 li●…e neither vpon bread nor

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 splrits 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 thorow out the most dry barren sandy places of the desart●… of Lybia and Afrike without enduring of any thirstinesse Others there haue beene who onely by seeing yea and by smelling of Coloworts onions or garlicke haue sallen 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 there with in the citie of Athens yet 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 ●… 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 whome 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 shape fight 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 which is almost incredible by the heat of their stomacke will bee able to digest them There be three things generally which do make meats and nourishments which of their owne nature are hurtfull to be more pleasant and lesse offensiue that is to say vse and custome the pleasure and delight that one is possessed with and a strong and firme stomacke for good and holesome meats if the stomacke cannot away with them doe subuert and cause a loathing and abhorring in it and againe if the stomacke bee verie weake it easily refuseth and reiecteth meats of quicke and easie digestion In like maner concerning odours and smels with all men nor yet with the most the sauour of Tabacco cannot be vnpleasant nor produce such strange and fearefull effects A Cerote against wormes Rec. Myrrhae Aloes ana ʒj Pul. fol. sanae sanctae Indorum Sem. abrotani ana ℈ ss Cerae resina an q. s. Fiat ceratum A liniment against the wormes in children Rec. Succi foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum ʒiij Pulueris scordij Aloes ana ℈ ij Olei communis ℥ j. C●…rae parum Misce fiat linimentum Now follow such other medicines as are made of Tabacco first concerning the Sciatic●… For it is found by experience of the learned that it mitigateth the pain of the gout if the leaues be rosted in the hot embers and applyed to the agrieued part For paines likewise of the ioynts the tender leaues of Tabbacco or Nicotiana being bruised and applied to the place vntill it beginne to looke red are singular In like sort a Cataplasme performeth the same effect and is more effectuall then the former being thus made Rec. Radicum Althae●… Rad. liliorum Iridis ana ℥ j. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum m j. Florum chamaemeli Melil●…ti Summitatum anethi ana p j. Seminum lini Foenugraeci ana ℥ ss Cymini Baccarum lauri ana ʒiij Croci ʒss Axungiae anserin●… Medullae vituli B●…yri Olei liliorum quantū sufficit Fiat Cataplasma This Cataplasme is emollient and softneth tumours it digesteth and asswageth paine and resolueth and discusseth winde These Cataplasmes are seldome administred but where the body is first purged A Fomentation that addeth strength to the weakned parts Rec. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum m. j. Foliorum rosmarini St●…chados Chamaepiteos Hyssopi Nasturtij ana m. ss Coquantur ex vino austero cum spongijs fiat Fotus For paine in the ioynts or hippe-bone an excellent Cataplasme Rec. Lact is l. j. Micas duas panis albi Coquantur et adde Pulueris tabaci m. ss Croci ℈ j. Vitellos duos ouorum Olei rosarum Olei Chamaemeli ana ʒvj Fiat Cataplasma et bis die appplicetur calidè A Suffumigation to be taken when the ioynts are much loosened or relaxed with too much moisture Rec. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum

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 orbenumming 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 ℈ ijss 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 E●…phorbiū 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 in his due time with other circumstances considered it doth no more than a Noblemans shooe doth in healing the gout in the foot or a precious Ring a crampe in the finger nor a Diademe the paine in the head or as Lucretius the Poet saith Nec calidae citiùs decedunt corpore febres Textilibus si in picturis ostróque rubenti ●…acteris quàm si plebeia in veste cubandum est Feuers no sooner from thy bodie flie If thou on arras or red scarlet lie Tossing then if thou rest On couerlets home drest Tabacco cleareth the eie-sight and taketh away the webbes and spots thereof being anointed with the iuyce bloud-warme The oyle or iuyce dropped into the eares and the fume likewise receiued into the eares is good against deafnesse a cloth dipped in the same and laide vpon the face taketh away the lentils rednesse and spots thereof An Errhine or Nasale for stuffing in the nose and for defect of smelling Rec. Piperis Pyrethri Tabaci ana ʒi Olei naturalis balsami q. sufficit ad incorporandū Cum melle q. s. fiat Nasale Another Errhine Rec. succi Tabaci ℥ i. Olei amygdalarum amararum ʒi Masticis subtiliter pulverisatae ℈ i. misce Trahatur naso dum ore reddatur This that followeth is good for an old pain in the head and sharpeneth the eye-sight Rec. Succi tabaci vel sanae sanctae Indorum Cicl●… betonicae ana ℥ i. Bulliant cum vini albi ℥ ij Oxym scillitic ℥ ss Fiat errhinum Another Rec. Sinapi gr 5. Pul fol. sicc tabaci Piperis albi ana ℈ ss Ladani Cer●… ana ʒiss misce Fiat Nasale pyramidis vel tent forma When wee are to vse strong Errhines or Nasales the mouth must be full of water If after the taking of these kindes of medicines the nostrels do smart or suffer much paine then may it bee taken away or diminished either with womans milke oyle of violets or vnguentum Rosatum They that haue sore eyes must not deale with them nor yet they that either haue or are subiect to vlcerations in the nose or such persons who suffer much head-ache caused by the French pockes for if they bee too busie with them their noses perhaps may in the meane space be in danger of falling downe flat Neither must these Errhines or Nasales be compounded of any venomous matter for so there may growe vlcers and fi lt hie sores in that part Lastly when you take them there must care be had that the nose bee not filled too full least that respiration and drawing in of the breath bee thereby letted or hindred nor yet to bee vsed especially in deafnesse or dulnesse of hearing but when the bodie aforehand sufficiently is prepared and purged as Alexander Trallianus the learned Physician saith The leaues of this hearb being decocted in water are good against the paines of the breast an

such as bee of easie concoction and such as surfet pamper or cocker themselues too much more than those that behaue themselues temperately and vse a moderation in their expences and manner of liuing as some say they doe at Florence in Italy To shut vp all in a word those that keepe good rule liuing continently are freer from this plaguy infection then such as liue after their owne pleasure wilfully and luxuriously and they that keepe home lesse than such as gad abroad being accounted good fellowes louing to frequent much company do lesse feele this poisonous disease Now although by this that I haue said one may easily gather why Tabacco should be good in some constitutions I meane in hot and moist and colde and moist and why not in othersome so holesome yet for all that this must be taken warily namely that wee vse not Tabacco for purgation sake especially nor yet any purging medicine in the beginning of the plague or yet if they be taken with any fluxe or loosenesse of the belly for of these thus affected there is scarse the hundreth person that escapeth with life I know well what Fracastorius Palmarius and many others haue written and enforced themselues somtimes too farre concerning these points as they imagin they haue attained the truth As for me it is not my purpose at this time to censure others in this iudging world but only I thought good to speak thus much by the way seeing it is not quite besides my intended scope as touching our Tabacco The iuyce of Tabacco boyled in sugar to the forme of a syrupe and inwardly taken driueth forth worms of the belly if withall a leafe bee layed to the nauell It cureth also the Piles and the Dropsie An Vnguent for a Dropsie Rec. Succorum sanaesanctae Indorum ℥ viij Cortic. med Sambuci Chamomillae Tithymali ana ℥ ij Succi violarum Radicum Cucumeris agrestis Mercurialis macis Laureolae Colchici Anglici Fellis tauri Aloes hepaticae ana ℥ iij. Diagredij vnc jss Cum olei oliuar lib. iij. Cerae albae lib. j. Fiat vnguentums art●…m An Emplaster for the same Rec. Stercoris vaccini Sterco Caprini ana ℥ viij Macerentur per horas vj. in ●…ceto vini albi siccantor Tum Rec. aluminis rochae Salis nig torrefac Sulphuris flaui ana ℥ ij Succitabaci ℥ vj. Foliorum Soldanellae vnc jss Seminum Anisi Foeniculi Carui ana vnc j. Farin●…lupinorum Orobi ana vnc j. Terebinthinae vnc ij Picis naualis vnc xij Axungiae porcinae vnc iiij Fiat Emplastrums artem Syrupus optimus ad Hydropicos Rec. Foliorum sanaesanctae Indorum 〈◊〉 vj. Hyssopisicci Pulegij reg●…lis Ceterach se●… asplenij ana m. j. ss Calamenti minoris p. ij Seminum Anisi Seminum vrticae Sem. Anethi ana ʒiij Ga●…angae Hellebori albi ana ʒiiijss Asari Agarici ana ʒij Rad. Angelicae hortensis Rad. iridis Costi Amomi Polipodij quercini ana ℥ j. Let all these be beaten to powder and infused in six pintes of the sharpest wine vineger for three daies space in the open sunne in a glasse vessell Afterwards boyle them in a double vessell with a gentle fire to the consumption of the halfe then straine them and adde to them of Mel rosarum l. j. Sacchari l. ss Boyle them againe to the consumption of the vineger and aromatize it with saffron ginger and mace ana ℈ ij Fiat Syrupus secundum artem A conuenient purge in a Dropsie Rec. Seminum sanaesanctae Indorum ʒj Rhabarb ʒss Diagridij gr ij Syrupi ros sol cum agarico ℥ j. cum aqua destillati tabaci quantum sufficit Fiat potio Detur post digestionem conuenientem An excellent Sacculus to discusse winde to remooue the colicke and is very effectuall in a tympanie Rec. Foliorum san sanct Indorum p. iiij Florum Chamaemelorum Summitatum anethi ana p. j. Cymini Cari ana ℥ ss Baccarum Lauri ʒiij Make two bagges of all these being quilted or interbasted so that they may couer the most part of the belly Tabacco is a present remedy for 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. Succifoliorum 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 Tabaoco 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 mediae partis 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 ʒj Cerusae albissimae ʒiij Caphurae ℈ ij Aquae stillatitiaesan sanct Indorum ℥ ix Aceti albi ℥ ij Let them settle fixe 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 foc●… Ad guttam rosaceam or a sawce fleagme face Rec. Cerusam q. v. ponatur cum aqua stillatitia tabaci ad solem vel cum succo eiusdem

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 hue pleased them wondrous well and they iudged it no reason that the inward parts should any whit differ or varie from the outward How soeuer 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. Pr●…termiss Proqúenouem ●…ntum proferro 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 A phorisme 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 esculenti because the emperor Claudius Casar died with eating of them whereof both Plinie in his two and twentie booke chap. 22. Cornelius Tacitus in his twelfth booke Suetonius Tranquillus in Claudio cap 44. and Dio in his 58. booke make large mention The Storie is this There was in times past as there is now adaies a kinde of Fungus esculentus a kinde of Mushrom which was thought to be a dish fit for Princes in regard of their delicate taste and holesomnesse yet at length it grewe infamous because Agrippina the Empresse poysoned Claudius Caesar her husband with them either hee surfeiting through his greedie eating as King Iohn did with eating of Lampries as some of our histories report for both these Princes took a singular delight in either of these meats but somesay the King died with peares some with plums but most hold that he was poysoned by the hands of a pole-shorne Monk of Swinsted Abbey in Lincolneshire the like is supposed that the wicked woman added a little poyson to these mushroms because she would be rid of her husband the Emperour to the intent to settle the goúernment and to set the crowne vpon her owne sonnes head Nero who indeed succeeded Claudius in the Romane Empire Hence proceeded those quips and taunts of Iuuenalis the famous Poet who liued in those daies against these kindes of mushroms called of the ancients Boleti in his first Satyre Vilibus ancipites fungi ponentur amicis Boletus domino sed qualem Claudius edit Ante illum vxoris post quem nil amplius edit And in the sixt Satyre minus ergo nocens erit Agrippinae Boletus siquidem vnius pr●…cordia pressit Ille senis trem●…lumqúe caput descendere iussit In coelum Hence also proceeded that bitter taunt of wicked Nero his successour tearming Boletus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc est Deorum ci●…um the meat of the Gods because Claudius Caesar died with eating of them and the superstitious gentilisme imagined that their Caesars or Emperours after their deathes were translated into the number of the Gods From hence likewise it was that Martialis vttered this imprecation Boletum qualem Claudius edit edas And this common versicle is not yet quite forgotten Boleti lethi caussa fuêre mei But it is a thing not so much to bee wondred at that poysons haue been foisted amongst mushroms and mixed also with other meats for wee read in histories that they haue been giuen in Sacrifices For Victor the third Bishop of Rome was killed with poyson that was conueighed into the chalice whereof hee dranke when Masse was celebrated not without the scoffes and mockerie of his enemies who said It was a verie diuine draught that sent Victor in such post haste without much adoe to the ioyes euerlasting In this point therfore I would frame vnto our Tabacconists this hortatorie admonition that they keepe a moderation in receiuing the fume thereof and that likewise they take it not in case it be infected with som poysonous qualitie as it many times is lest this Epitaph be inscribed on