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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

more mediterrane And againe amongst men they are more cruelly handled which being of a hot and moist temperature and such as be full of grosse and corrupt humours hauing such bodies as be ready to run ouer with plenty thereof are more subiect to putrefied agues than colde and drie complexions and such as haue but small store of humors and the same very fine and pure For ouermuch loosenesse and largenesse of body euen as too much adstriction maketh a way for the pestilence But it will be necessary and to our purpose in hand and worthy the labour and paines taking more deepely to enter into and to make a larger rehearsal into this discourse and leasurely by peece-meales as it were to cut and minse the same Although therefore the pestilent poison without exception no lesse violently setteth vpon as well the richer as the poorer sort and assoone dispatcheth those of sturdy and able bodies as meacocks milk-sops and weaklings and such as be great strong quarrie bigge well set handsome timbred and such as we call well proportioned and of a iust temperature and making neither too slender nor too grosse as well as those that are sickly queasie and abounding with cacochymicall humours and vpon men as women old and young hot complexions as cold moist as dry for to all alike it proclaimeth open war yet neuerthelesse it often commeth to passe that vpon some it sooner layeth holde and killeth more speedily than it doth vpon others For first in respect of ages wee finde by common experience that Infants are more endangered thereby and take it sooner than children and these sooner than young men and younger more than those of riper yeares and women are more often subiect to this griefe than men and chiefely those that bee with childe and such as are not monethly expurged Of complexions likewise that temperament which is hot and moist or cold and moist is oftener and easilyer ouerthrowne than either the hot and drie or the cold and drie complexions And for the same reason the sanguine and the phlegmatique constitution are most in danger and are more subiect vnto this griefe than either cholericke or melancholike persons and doe sooner die withall The cause of this varietie is the superabundant corrupt or filthy humours subiect to putrefaction or corrupt and filthy bloud which is easily infected with the contagion of the ayre receiuing pestilence And this is the cause that those who are much subiect to sicknesse although that some will falsly maintaine that either the French Pockes or the quartaneague is a Supersedeas to the plague and cacochymicall bodies doe sooner feele the hurt thereof and are put into further hazard than such as bee exquisitly sound and in perfect health and those that vse nourishments which breede euill iuyces and humours in the bodie than the contrarie or 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 sanae sanctae 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 artem An Emplaster for the same Rec. Stercoris vaccini Sterco Caprini ana ℥ viij Macerentur per hor as vj. in acet● vini albi siccantor Tum Rec. aluminis rochae Salis nig torrefac Sulphuris flaui ana ℥ ij Succi tabaci ℥ vj. Foliorum Soldanellae vnc jss Seminum Anisi Foeniculi Carui ana vnc j. Farinae 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 sanae sanctae Indorum m. vj. Hyssopi sicci Pulegij regaelis Ceterach seu asplenij anam j. ss Calamenti minoris p. ij Seminum Anisi Seminum vrtica Sem. Anethi ana ʒiij Galangae 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 sanae sanctae 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

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

prooued to be singular good against the tooth-ache for it doth not onely cease the paines of the teeth which proceed of any cold cause the tooth being first cleansed and scoured with some linnen cloth dipped in the iuyce of this herb and a pill made of the leafe being put into the tooth but also hindreth and restraineth corruption and rottennesse of the same from any further increase And this standeth with good reason for if the paine either of the head or teeth proceed of colde and this hearbe being of a hot and drying qualitie must needs make against it prouoking stirring and moouing thereby the expulsiue facultie or melting the humour contained and bred in the braine or else drawing to it especially from the former ventricles of the braine into that part which by reason of the vse is called Infundibulum which is nothing but a deepe cauitie in the forepart of the third ventricle of the braine which at length goeth aboue the seat of Sphenoides we may not vnfitly tearme it the braine tonnell for from thence the humours fall into the mouth and by that meanes are purged and voided away I my self know a man yet liuing in Northhāptonshire being verie much and a long time vexed with paine and coldnesse especially in the hinder part of his head who hauing tried the skill and medicines of many Physicians and nothing at all preuailing he was at length counselled to take Tabacco in fume which hee yeelding vnto after a while all the paine vanished away And this standeth with good reason for the Tabacco looseneth the fleagme and those pituitous humours that are bred in the head and breast drying and coroborating the braine verie notably And if this man had taken Tabaco with vngula caballina iris thus or sulphur in fumigation nothing could haue been deuised more excellent For confirmation of this Iohn Heurnius in the first booke of his method ad praxin telleth a storie of himselfe how plentifuly it draweth slimie and pituitous humours from the mouth and nostrels by taking the fume in a narrow pipe for saith he it searcheth euerie corner of the braine and is caried into the eares and I dare boldly auouch that this hearbe is specially and peculiarly appropried to the braine being by a most easie passage caried thither washing purging and clearing the braine from all corruption and filthinesse for about a yere since being much pained with the tooth-ache I boyled this hearb in water adding to it some chamomile floures and holding a spoonful of this warm decoction in my mouth I did presently spit it forth and so doing certaine times together about two houres after the paine somewhat abated The next day following when as my maner was I went to a garden I had in the suburbs and there bending downe my head to pull vp some grasse or weedes there dropped and flowed downe in great quantitie from my nose a great deale of moisture as yellow as saffron or a Kites foot hauing the verie sent of Tabacco and forth-with all the paine of my teeth ceased In all my life I cannot call to remembrance that either bloud or any other superfluous humour besides flegmaticke and waterish superfluities euer came out at my nostrels but neuer in all my life did I see any thing more yealow then this moist humour was that issued from me at that time So this being granted I can see no reason but that one may safely vse this as a Suffitus or a holsome hot perfume as well as we doe myrrhe masticke pitch Styrax frankensence turpentine Castoreum Ladanum the gum of Iuniper cloues and the like being cast vpon the coles and vsed for the griefes abouesaid But peraduenture some will obiect and say that Tabacco is of an ingrate vnpleasant sent so that many therby are brought to fainting or swouning euen by the smell thereof To whom I answere that it is true and yet notwithstanding I thinke a Calfe with one eie may easily see that some of these forerecited medicines haue a farre more noysome I may say loathsome smell than this Gentleman Tabacco hath The iudgement concerning sweet sents in diuers men is diuers nothing almost being common one with another so that quot capita tot sensus looke how many sundrie different visages and faces so many discrepant iudgments concerning the excellencie of this or that odour For with one the sent of Cinamon is more fragrant than that of muske With another cloues seeme to surpasse them both To another a Rose is held more odoriserous than any of them all So that concerning the diuersitie of sweet smels and sauours you shall euer haue diuersitie of iudgements so that when all the cards are cast vp this must be the full decision and finall determination that those things must be chosen which be most familiar to euery mans nature whether meats or medicines and those to be refused that be contrarie Galen the Prince of Physitians in his Method of curing doth affirme that there be certaine medicaments which by the proprietie of their nature vertues do more properly respect one part thā another as for example Agrimony Hepatica nobilis absinthiū and all kinds of Endiue or Succorie direct their vertues more specially to the liuer then to any other part or particle of the bodie Glans vnguentaria germander capers Scolopendriū Ceterach called milt waste for his effects tamariske Cortex salicis dancus scordiū calamint asarabacca som others respect the spleen peculiarly Saxifrage betonie calcifraga Anglorum otherwise called Perchepier polygonū selinoides the roots of Smallach of Dancus fennell berries of Iuniper and the seeds of melones the reines and vreters The fit and proper medicines for the breast and lungs are the roots of fennell of horehound hastula regia Scabious Reisins of the sunne figges Hyssop thyme oke of Ierusalem licorice barley and fussilage called of some blinde Physicians farfara Mints cynamon wormewood and galangall are excellent for the stomacke For the Heart saffron bugloss borage balme roses basill saunders pearle the Bezoar stone and gold it selfe for as old Chaucer the English Poet saith of one of his Pilgrims a Physician that trauailed among the rest to Saint Thomas of Canturburie and that verie truly For Gold in Physicke is a cordiall Wherefore he loued Golde in speciall Penirial mugwort sauin calamint peony mirrh saffrō borax are medicines fit for some womens griefes Celandine eic-bright respect the eies The sea onyō Chamepithis psillium and hermodactils direct their vertue chiefly to the ioynts Staechas Laurus rosemarie the male pionie misseitoe of the oke galangall Castoreum betonie margerome sage and our Tabacco doe especially respect the braine Wee must also know that there bee some medicines which of their owne proper nature are offensiue to some particular parts either by some manifest qualitie that is in them or by some hidden propertie For the often vse of Thus Mel Anacardinum and the hearbe called balme wherewith Bees are

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

vaine fantasie thinke him who oppresseth them to creepe vp by little and little on the bed as it were to deceiue them and anone to runne downe againe They seeme also to themselues to heare him This disease of the night-Mare is also called by another name Puigalion or Puigamon It commeth by meanes of certaine grosse and thicke vapours which doe partly intercept and hinder the free passage of the spirits animall by which meane difficultie of speaking and breathing doe proceede with a perturbation of the sense and motion of the whole bodie Now this dreadfull griefe which some being much deceiued thinking that it must onely proceede of witchcraft is chiefely remedied with the extracted oile of Tabacco a fewe drops taken in sacke or maluesie after the stomacke bee first accordingly by the rules of art expurged from those superfluous humours which are the true cause of the disease The oyle of Tabacco for a colde and moist stomacke is farre better than oyle of pepper oyle of Anniseeds the extracted oyles of Fennell Commin Masticke Cloaues or Calamint and if an Electuarie were made for this disease called the Mare I suppose this to be-excellent An Electuarie for an ouer-cold and moist stomacke Rec. Pulueris aromat r●s maioris ex descriptione Gabrielis ʒij Puluer is electuar diacalaminthes ʒj Diatrion piperij ℈ ij Conseruae anthos rosarum Damascenarum ana ℥ ss Sacchari optimi vnc j. ss Serapij de mentha quod sufficit vt fiat elect liquidum Adde Olei tabaci chymici gutt as aliquot Dosis vnc ss per horam vnam aut alteram ante pastum I haue discoursed sufficiently as I iudge of the vertues of Tabacco for inward diseases of mans bodie now will I proceede to his effects in curing those that happen outwardly and first there is prescribed vnto vs this Vnguent Rec. Of the choysest and most substantiall leaues of Tabacco lib. j. Beat them in a mortar of marble and after that take of Axungia porcina lib. ss Let it be refined and clarified and without falt so this being melted adde to it the Tabacco and set it ouer a soft fire to seeth deliberately and leasurely vntill such time as you finde the waterish humiditie of the Tabacco to be vapoured away and that the mingled substances retaine the force of a perfect Vnguent Reserue this for a singular and medic inable good Vnguent for sores vlcers carbuncles tetters and likewise to dissolue tumours There is also another in vse which is this that followeth Rec. Terebinthinae Resinae Ceraenouae ana vnc iij. Melt them together and then adde to them of Tabacco prepared as before lib. j. mixe them together and after with a slow fire set them to incorporat seething together fiue or sixe houres vntill the waterish humour of the Tabacco be cleane euapourated After this is done straine it through a coorselinnen cloth that may be very strong After all this take of Venice Turpentine l. ss infusing it into these things before said without any more boyling of it but yet stirring it cōtinually til it be cold afterwards preserue and keepe these as precious Vnguents This surpasseth the former in all colde griefes to amend and ease the swelling paines and aches of the gowt Sciatica and the like helping and comforting weake and resolued sinewes and cicatrizeth Master William Clowes a skilfull Chirurgeon of London in his booke of obseruations for curing gun-shot describeth an excellent Vnguent of Nicotiana verie like vnto the former which he learned as hee affirmeth of a verie learned man both in Physicke and Chirurgerie which he said had wrought wonders aboue beliefe but I saith Master Clowes found not that excellencie in it which he promised and I looked for neuerthelesse I acknowledge it a medicine not to be disallowed and this is the order of making of it as the Physician appointed Rec. Foliorum Nicotianae l. j. Let the leaues be well stamped and after strained out as strongly as possible may bee then adde thereto Ceraenouae Resinae Olei communis ana ℥ iij. Let all these boyle together vnto the consumption of the iuyce then adde thereunto terebinthinaevenetae ℥ iij. boyle all a little together and reserue it to your vse But this Vnguent sinceit was first knowne is greatly bettered chiefely by Iosephus Quercetanus and others also Moreouer with the foresaid descriptions there is also another in vse and more necessarie for wounds made with gunshot and I haue approoued it in many other cures and thus it is truely prescribed and published Rec. Succi de Peto lib. vj. Adip is ouini lib. ij Olei communis lib. xij Terebinthinae venetae ℥ xij Resinae pini lib. j. Masticis ℥ ij Colophoniae lib. ij Cerae lib. j. Vini albi l. j. Misce fiat Vnguentum secundum artem Let not the Succus of Petum be put in before all the rest be well relented together and then strained into a cleane panne and being molten put in the iuyces to the rest and boyle it till the iuyces bee all consumed Then straine it againe and reserue it to your vse This Vnguent doth notably incarne and mundifie You shall here in the closing vp of this my discourse haue prescribed two singular oyntments of my owne inuention wherewith I haue performed many great cures and thereby haue wonne both crownes and credit Rec. Herbarum sanae sanctae Indorum m. iij. Quinqueneruiae Saniculae ana m. ss Consolidae mediae vulnerariorum Bagulae Solidaginis Saracenicae ana m. j. Beat and temper them all with barrowes grease l. j. and of the best oyle oliue l. ss and adde to them Vini albi l. jss to be boyled the space of one houre Afterwards straine them and adde to them of waxe l. ss Resinae Terebinthinae ana ℥ iiij Misce fiat Ceratum This doth notably heale This other that followeth is both sanatiue and mundificatiue and this is the true description of it Rec. Terebinthinae ℥ ss Vnguenti aurei Vnguenti tabaci priùs descripti ana ℥ ss Myrrhae Mastiches Sarcocollae ana ʒij Succi Tabaci ℥ jss Cerae Resinae ana ʒiij Mel is ʒij Olei Hyperici q. sufficit Cum vitell ouorum no. ij Fiat Vnguentum Thus much as touching Tabacco though not so much as others perhaps might and I could haue done but yet so much as I thought worthy to be noted and written for to satisfie and content the gentle good will of the louing and curteous readers if that it please them to take as great pleasure and patience to read it as I haue taken paines after my long endurance in prison of the kings Bench to set it forth Which thought neuer to haue done had it not been for the earnest sollicitations and importunities of my best and deerest friends I am sure that some will finde this my discourse too long others too short and trifling and peraduenture vpbraide and cast in my dish the saying of the famous Poet Terentius in his Comedie entituled Heautont Act. 4. sce. 1. Naeiste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit But if there be any such fault-finders quarrell-pickers corner-creepers or spider catchers I will leaue both them and their figuratiue flowts wherewith they are accustomed to hit men ouer the shinnes and end this my discourse with the Poet Martialis lib. 13. Epigram 21. against all such detractours Nasutus sis vsque licèt sis denique nasus Quantum noluerit ferre rogatus Atlas Et possis ipsum tu deridere Latinum Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas Ipse ego quàm dixi quid dentem dente juuabit Rodere carne opus est si satur esse velis Ne perdas operam quise mirantur in illos Virus habe nos haec nouimus esse nihil In English thus Suppose you were long nos'd suppose such nose you weare As Atlas if you should entreat him would not beare That you in flowting olde Latinus can be fine Yet can you say no more against these toyes of mine Than I haue said what boot is 't tooth with tooth to whet You must haue flesh if you to glut your selfe be set Loose not your paines gainst them who on themselues are doating Keepe you your sting we know these things of ours are nothing FINIS Virgilius Aeneid 2 Horat. li. 2 epist. 2. 29. Tibul. li 4 heroic ver 4. Lucret. l. 3 Cleanly Description of Tabacco or Sana sancta Indorum The place The time The temperature Ouid. lib. 2. Metam Horat. li. 1. Epist. 1. Iuuenal Satyr 6. Cat. eleg 1. Vnguentum Sanans nostrum Vnguentum nostrum Sanans mundificans This fellow sure with much adoo Hath told great tales and trifles too