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B05900 The so much fam'd tablets 1680 (1680) Wing S4398; ESTC R184416 3,797 11

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in the Head whether from Blows Falls or otherwise and effectually Cures Stuffings in the Nostrils and draws out Mercury lodg'd in the Head by irregular Salivations or the use of Mercurial Remedies and cannot but be the only Snush in the Universe for Lethargies Vertigoes Epilepsies Apoplexies Madness and the like In this Snush there is not the least Grain of either Hellebor Euphorbium or Tobacco which are the chief Ingredients of all your Snushes in vogue whether Foreign or Domestick made and which by causing violent and long Sneezing concuss and shake the Brain thereby inducing the same Diseases for which this Snuff of mine is oftentimes a perfect Cure and as strong Sneezings are apparently hurtful if not pernicious Nature abhorring Violence such Snushes ought carefully to be avoided But this here recommended makes the stagnated Humours fluxile and brings away not only a thin Water through the Nostrils as other Snushes but also a thick glutinous Matter insomuch that when the Faculties or Intellectuals are torpid dull and heavy as in Apoplexies Lethargies and other sleepy Diseases the excrementitious Humours causing the same are as it were dissolved and made with ease to pass away through the Nostrils it working gently for a long time together attracting powerfully and bringing away from all parts of the Head and Brain such a vast quantity of Excrements that Deafness tho' of never so long standing as also Cataracts and Suffusions which over-spread the Sight and cause Blindness may possibly be cured thereby or at leastwise it will so far help the Sight and Hearing as to be found exceeding beneficial and safe when all other sorts of Snuff have been so far from helping therein that they have manifestly been destructive to both the one and the other But for those other Head-Diseases before mentioned and in an especial manner for Apoplexies it may possibly do more than any other thing in the World beside and that more particularly if it be snuff'd up the Nostrils every Morning or upon extraordinary occasions at Nights also for two or three or four days successively And if the Tablets also be used daily as in the following Directions they may together work such wonderful Effects in those Diseases as would be almost incredible to relate for they will cause such a total Evacuation and Discharge of the foul excrementitious Humours which cause most Head-Diseases as must needs beyond all inward means work far greater and indeed very surprizing Effects Directions for using the Tablets PUT one of them into your Mouth and as soon as soft which will be in a moments time chew it or hold it there rowling it about with your Tongue for as long or as short a time as your Distemper may require you should Spit more or less always Spitting out the Rheum as it is attracted which will come faster after a quarter of an hours time but never so fast as to be troublesome If you would Spit a Quart in a day use thus one or two of them one after another for four or five hours at times and so in proportion more or less as you have occasion and if before you are aware you should swallow your Spittle or by chance the Tablet 't will no ways harm you or disorder your Stomach They will not stick to your Mouth or Teeth neither do they dissolve or waste by using so that one will last a whole day if you please In some Persons the Rheum is harder to be attracted and may not come so free the Glandules of the Mouth and Throat not being so open and relax'd therefore such must only use them longer at a time than others and will receive the same benefit which at most is so far from being tiresome that when you have been used to them you will scarcely at all care to be without them in your Mouth they being easie and pleasant refreshing to the Memory and Intellectuals giving one the opportunity of thinking with greater Perspicuity and Apprehension FINIS