I understand was lately done by them may collect above thirty thousand franks yearly at their pleasure by the only custome upon Tobacco for the publick treasure from the Merchants that are carefull to bring it from the Indies unto us But to return again from whence we digressed I said that this sume can draw forth watâ—y and cold humours from the head yet Hippocrates his Doctrine seems to be against this 5. Apharism 28. Sweet Aromaticall smells will provoke the terms and the same would be often good for other matters did they not cause the head to ake Where he teacheth Galen subscribing in his commentary that the whole body being duly fume will send forth by the Matrix in all cold and moyst dispositions were it not that we are affraid of that heaviness of the head which proceeds from these fumes Since then for a Flegmatique matter lying in the head those things are not requisite which load and fill the head but rather those things that send ease and lighten it fumigations that are made of things that fill the head as Galen himself teacheth cannot be good to be used in such a disposition of the brain nor yet in any other But there are many most grave Authours for the other part who exercise their practise with great praise and teach and highly commend fumigations in such or the like accidents and to these men not only daily experience but also most strong reason subscribes For to cut and consume a cold and moyst humours collected in the brain no fitter Remedies than those can be found which have power to strengthen attenuate and dry the brain and it is certain that the sume of Tobacco hath such a faculty For it heats cuts attenuates opens and resolves Therefore this smoke drawn in by the Mouth and Nose to dry and heat the cold and moyst excrements of the brain may be proper and usefull To answer the former argument that is against it observe that it is very necessary to consider for the use of this remedy what the temper of the brain is as I said and what the humour is that abounds in it for if it be hot it will be much filled and burdned with the smoke of Tobacco and the cause of this event lyeth in the heat of the part for heat naturally attracts heat and also in the largness of the passages of a hot head whereby it easily admits the Vapours that ascend but if the braine be over cold and moyst and then heap up such excrements it will not be filled with this fume but will rather be refreshed and dried unless perhaps by reason of so great naturall weakness or weakness contracted by a disease it can admit no vapours without pain and heaviness These things premised I answer to the contrary Argument that Hippocrates in the quoted Aphorism must be understood concerning those who have a brain that is very hot and moist and weake withall and that easily is offended with pain and heaviness For a cold and moist brain filled with cold and moist Excrements a hot and drying fume such as is the smoke of Tobacco is most convenient especially drawn in by a Pipe the way I mentioned before Yet I think they ought to abstain from it whose heads are not only weak but are also of a delicate nature and are easily disturbep and pain'd not only with fumes but with the most temperate smels Here follows another question namely whether the fume of Tobacco swallowed into the Stomach which custome I find to be in continuall use with many men but chiefly amongst our Sea men can draw and purge superfluous humours out of the head and brain Reasons are very forcible for the affirmative part The first is taken out of the 7. Aphorisme 30. of Hippocrates who say thus Whosoever they be that in a diarrhaea void frothy excrements by stool those excrements flow from the head and from thence it is inferred that humours may be drawn from the head to the stomach by the faculties of purging medicaments being derived by the tunnel The second is taken from Actuarius Mâ—sues and other approved Authoursâ— who commend Agarick to purge flegmatique humours contain'd in the head and the brest which they would never have done if the head and brest could not be vacuated by the belly The Argument for the Negative part is because according to Aristo 1. Sect. Probl. Quest 42. When medicaments come to the belly and are resolved they are presently carried to the Veins by the same way that the meat is and when they cannot be concocted but remain conquerours they slip back again and carry with them those things that stay by them and that is called purging And from the stomach to the brain or brest there are no passages found whereby a purging medicament can passe to allure the humours to it Therefore the humour that is contain'd in the brain or thorax cannot be drawn forth by the fume of Tobacco as by a purgative medicament which opinion also of Aristotle the most Learned Fernelius 3. Meth. c 7. seems to defend Note therefore for the resolving of this difficulty that the more corpulent substance of this fume doth not pass from the stomach to purge the brain but stayeth in it or sticks in the Intestins and from thence it draws forth those humours that are agreeing to it which may be proved many waies First because medicaments applyed outwardly as to the Navel therefore called Navel-medicaments to the palme of the hand or to the soles of the feet and sometimes applyed to the Nostrils will purge the body and yet they cannot proceed so far as to purge the humours Secondly Because we often observe that medicaments and pils are voided almost whole after purgation which could not be if they passed all the body over to draw unto them such humours as are familiar to them Thirdly Serapiows argument proves the same for saith he if a medicament should pass to a humour that is farre off from it it would joyn lovingly with it and would never draw forth that it delights in the society of as the Loadstone joyned to the Iron doth not draw the iron to some other place but detains and holds it there Wherefore we must confesse that some thin fumie substance doth rise from the stomach by the veins and other secret passages not only to the brain but also is diffused we cannot say how to all parts of the body Hence it is clear that Aristotle said not right that purgatives pass all the body over and so draw the peccant humour as taken captive into the stomach Those things being thus observed we answer to the difficulty that purgatives do not pass through the body to attract humours that agree with them but they stay in the stomach and by their force and Vertue they draw them unto them from all parts of the body by waies that though they
doth presently ease the pain of the teeth coming from cold or wind and takes away all corruption but this remedy is nothing worth if the pain proceed from a hot cause Also it is good to rub aking teeth with the diâ—â—lled water of Tobacco To cure the Thrush and Ulcers of the Gums a mixture is made with Honey of Roses and the juyce of sour Pomgranats which maudifies scoures and breeds flesh The leaves of Tobacco roâ—sted under the hot embers applyed to the pained part ease the pains of the Throat over-cooled by rheume and all other Diseases of the body proceeding from cold causes And a gargarism may be made of the decoction of this Herb alone or mingled with other Herbs proper for this Disease It wonderfully helps Diseases of the brest and those that spit bloody matter Also for short breath and other inveterate Diseases if a decoction of it be made with Sugar and the Stomach being first purged it be taken for somâ— daies together So the leaves of Tobacco boyled in water and Sugar put to the decoction Or rather juyce of the leaves pressâ—d forth and boyled into a syrrup Apozeme or Julep taken daily upon an empty stomach two or three ounces 〈◊〉 a time abates the difficulty of breathing and an old cough It brings forth thick clammy corrupt humours but the sick must be first well purged and generally his body must be well emptied by Physick Also a Syrrup may be made of other pectoral means adding the leaves of Tobacco to them or Liquorish Reasins Jububes Figges Prunes Dates and Herbs fit for this use as Maydenhair Scabious Horehound and the like Take Maydenhairs white and black Horehound Coltsfoot of each one handfull Tobacco leaves two or three Reasins without stones whole Barley of each one Pugill Liquorish scraped two drammes make a decoction to a pint sweeten it with Sugar and Honey what is sufficient Another that attenuates and cuts more Take Scabious Horehound Maydenhairs Wall-Ruâ— of each one handfull and half Figgs ten Reasins one ounce Tobacco leaves five Liquorish scraped two drammes make a decoction in a pound of Hoâ—ied water untill two parts be consumed Adde to the strained Liquor of simple Oxymel Syrrup of Maydenhair of each two ounces Oxymel compound one ounce mingle them Water of Tobacco with Eybright water drank daily upon an empty stomach doth the same as Doctor Iarnacus Goverour of Rochel hath proved who was an intimate acquaintance of Nicotilus and private to the counsels and businesses of the French King and whom he chiefly desired to communicate the Knowledg of this Plant to This man being at a Banquet of the Kings with the Embassodour professed that by this means he cured one of an Asthma I saith Nicolaus Monardus observed some men troubled with an Asthma returning from the WestIndies or from Peru chewing Tobacco leaves in their mouthes and swallowing the juyce of them to make them spit forth corrupt matter but though these men were drunk by it it appears they found much good by it to bring out matter and flegm that stuck in their stomachâ— The dry powder of Tobbacco performs the same if you hold as much of it as you can take between the top of your fore-finger and thumb at the root of your tongue near your palate taking care that you swallow not the powder for in a short space you shall perceive great plenty of flegmatique humours to run forth at your mouth and this will endure untill that you may fill a small dish with flegme When you think this watry huâ—our is come forth in sufficient quantity wash your mouth with some good white Wine Do this every morning upon an empty stomach If this be to troublesome do it every third day alwaies according to art premising universals The same way it is profitable for the Diseases of the Brest and the parts adjoyning as the Lungs Wesand Throat offended by afflux of humours It is wonderfull good for pains proceeding from a defluxion of humours upon the mouth of the stomach or bred there and for all old paines of it or preternatural long-during paines of the Reins and for contractions of parts from chronical and lasting Diseases to chew the powder of dry leaves of Tobacco in the mouth to make an Apophâ—egmatism with them The women of the West-Indies mightily commend the leaves of Tobacco because they take away the crudities of the stomachs of young and old and dispell winds restore concoction soften the belly if it be first annointed with oyl of Olives and the leaves being made hot under hot embers be applyed to the region of the belly and be renewed as oft as occasion is The ashes must not be wiped off but more must be laid on to make it more effectual Also if you lay the said leaves so prepared to one that is surfeitted with meat or drink you shall very much remove his Crapula and repletion The same reason serves for the powder of the dry Herb if you put so much of it as you can hold between your finger and thumb into a spoonfull or two of Aqua vitae when you go to bed For it takes away your surfet and makes you sleep and resolves flegm They that swound away presently recover their former strength if the smoak of the leaves come into their mouthes or nostrils drawn by a Pipe or Reed Tobacco wonderfully helps the torments of the Guts and Belly and pain of the Colick and other paines proceeding from wind or cold if you lay the leaves on very hot and change them often untill the pain abate The powder of the leaves dried is good for the same use taken in white Wine or some other liquor when you go to bed about half a dram or a dram weight or thereabouts The leaves used the same way cure the wringing of the small Guts and it is proper to put this Herb with others in decoctions for Clysters as also to use them for Plasters and Fomentations that will do great service For Example take Mercury Râ—e Marsh Mallows Little Centâ—ury of each one handfull Hysop Calamint Wormwood of each one handfull and an half Tobacco leaves six roots of Marsh-mallows half an ounce Linseed Fenegrek of each three drams Cumminseed Anniseed of each one dram and half let them boâ—l in sufficient quantity of water untill the third paâ—t be consumed then take of the liquor boil'd and strained one pound Hiera Picra half â—n ounce Benedicta Laxativa â—ix drams fresh Butter Honey of Roseâ— strained of each six drams Oyl of Rue and Dill of each one ounce and half common Salt one dram Mingle them all and make a Clyster If Tobacco leaves be distilled with Fumitary it wonderfully helps all Diseases of the Liver But observe you must take less quantity of Fumitary then of Tobacco The juyce of the leaves of Tobacco bruised with a little Vineger or the Oyntment of them
rubbed in the morning upon the place of the Spleen obstructed or hardened from a cold cause softneth and dissolveth it but after annâ—inting you â—ust apply a leaf to it roasted in the embers or a cloath wet in the juyce of the leaves Others use instead of this unguents proper to this Disease with which they mingle the juyce of the leaves and adde also the leaves themselves and by this means it is found out that hard and inveterate humours may be dissolved The distilled water drank daily upon an empty stomach wonderfully helps hydrophical persons Moreover if you put the dry leaves of Tobacco upon the live Coles in a Kettle and so roste them and draw in the smoke of them by your mouth with a Pipe or Reed or Tunnell haveving your head and throat close covered you shall spit out so much flegme and clammy humours that you shall be so lank as if you had fasted a long time Wherefore it seems that a Dropsy not yet confirmed may be cured by this fume since it chiefly doth good to Aâ—â—hmaticall shortâ—winded people and such as are vexed with an old cold and with Rhumes for it makes them to spit out much thick and clammy matter The juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco Clarified and with Sugar â—ade into a Syrup and taken in the Morning in a small quantity drives forth Stomack and Belly Worms yet you must bruise the Leaves and wrap them in a Cloth and lay them to the Navel of the Patient and give him a Clyster of Milk and Sugar Also the powder of the same alone or mingled with other Leâ—itives is a present remedy for the Emrods for it perfectly cures them The Leaves heat under the Embers as I shewed before do with no less force drive away pains of the Matrix if they be laid to the Navell but it must be first Annoynted with Oyle wherein the juyce of the Leaves is boyled But the suffocation of the Matrix is taken away by receiving the fume of the Leaves by the privities Hip Goâ—t it abated if you rub it with Oyle of Olives and apply one Leafe of Tobacco Rosted at the fire This is good for any Gout coming from Cold Some bid the Patient chew every Morning fasting some of the â—eaves to free him from pains of the Gout This will draw much Flâ—gme into his Moâ—th and hinder it from running down upon the lower parts Wherefore the powder of the dryed Leaves will preserve men from pains of the Gout of the Feet that came at certain times if they use to Snufâ— up this Powder often into both Nostrils Likewise they that are now in pain with it shall manifestly find an abatement of it and the Disease to decline if they Snuff up the Powder into their Noses and in time often using it they will be freed from it Also the Powder may be held in the Mouth instead of an Apophlegmatism for either way it draws much Humours from the head and directs them from falling down upon the parts affected by reason of Defluxions Lastly The fresh Leaves of Tobacco laid on hot to resolve the cold are good for any part of the body affected from a cold cause for they take away the pains and forcibly resolve them either applyed by themselves or with other Remedies good for the same Diseases where there needs strong resolving means Take Sagupenuâ— Bdelliâ—m Griâ—â—â—lâ—â—y of each one Dram dissolve them in Vinegar and about the end adde of the Leaves of powder of Tobacco dried one ounce Oyle of Camomile one ounce wax what is sufficient make a Plaister according to art for this most powerfully resolves and abates pain Also you may make it thus Take Tacamahaâ— Caranna of each three Drams dissolve them according to art in Wine or a little of the strongest Vinegar after this adde powder of Tobacco six Drams Oyle of Lillies and of Wall Flowers five Drams wax what is sufficient make an Emâ—plaister according to art To these adde Tumours Impostumes Inflations and Childrens kibe heels or any sort of Itch for the Leaves of Tobacco laid to them or the juyce warm with Rags or Lint wet therein cure them for they resolve the Humours and ease the pains To cure Kibes the part affected must be Annoynted with the juyce and be rubed with Linnen Raggs but first putting the Feet or Hands if the cold be in them into very hot water wherein you have put a little Salt for this is often proved to do good It is tried that Tobacco will cure Burns A certain drunken Companion had a Glass of Beer in his hand and he stumbling and loth to break the Glass fell into the fire and burned his hand Women laid their heads together and they after an howre or two laid on some Clay This did no way ease the pain for he could not sleep by day nor by night wherefore being no longer able to endure the pain he comes to a Matron of Antwerp and asks her advice who as he had heard knew the Vertues of Tobacco Shee strewing the brims of the burnt place with the powder of Tobacco attempted to help him but for three daies little good was done by it When therefore he grew impatient he murmured at the Woman secretly because he came to her to be cured and Shee went to make experiment of the Vertues of Tobacco upon him and he commanded that such Medicaments as are gentle should be applied but the pain being nothing lessened with this he comes back to the Matron desiring her to go on with the cure as Shee began and Shee as Shee was a very good Woman strewed the Powder on again and in three daies made him well Moreover for inveterate Wounds malignant cancerous and spreading Ulcers Scabs Noli me tangere Itch Tetters Scrophula's Bubo's Impostumes fleshy Excrescences and the like almost innumerable Diseases it is very effectuall if the juyce be applied with rags or lint Green Wounds if they are not to deep are cured in one day by the juyce of the Leves and Lint But if the Wound be very deep it may be washed with Wine and be bound with bands wet in the juyce And it is excellent to heal a Wound quickly to wash it with the juyce of the Leaves the Inflammation being over Not long after that the Embassadour came to have the knowledg of Tobacco at Lisbon one of his Cooks had almost cut off his whole Thumb the Steward presently runs for Tobâ—cco which being sometimes applied to the Wound the Cook was well cured And thus this Herb grew to be so much esteemed at Lisborn where the Court them was and it began to be called the Embassadours Herb. It is as good for contusions and all hurts to which nothing else useth to be applied besides the juyce with Rags and the part affected must be swathed with a Roller But diet must be chiefly obâ—erved and if need be the Patient
companions doth not draw the smoke of it as through a tunnel by his mouth and Nostrils untill he be almost in an exstasie There are some of them who to take away weariness and to be refreshed in their labours make use of this smoke â—nd we found saith Monardes that by their example our servants and the Moors that came into the West-Indies from other parts would do the same for being weary by much leâ—ping and dancing they draw it in by their Mouth and Nostrils And the same thing beâ—als them as doth the Indians for they lye as if they were dead for three or foure houres after this they are lusty and are better able to endure labour than they were before And they take such delight in it that they will now and than go out of mens sight to take it in pleasure though they be not tired Sometimes they grow so mad by it that they will kill their Masters who are carefull to burn their Tobacco that they may take from them the occasion of this idle pleasure What need more words I saw saith Monardes our servants and the Moors who were not suffered to be drunk with Wine to make themselves drunk with this smoke wherein they take no small delight and they boast that it takes all wearinesse from them and that they suffer no hurt nor damage by taking of it Referre to this what Alexander ab Alexandrâ— l. 3. c. 11. hath left to Posterity that the Scythians when they desire to be drunk and abstain from Wine that they may not break the custome they cast bundles of Herbs into the fire and suck in the smoke and so become as drunk as if they had dranke Wine So it is a tradition concerning the Thracians that at their banquets they go about their fires casting the seeds of Herbs into the fire and the fume of that will make them like those that are drunk and they besotted as if they drank Wine even like those that tasted the juyce of Nepenthes who supposed sorrow to be removed by it Also the Babilonians would make themselves so drunk by burning fruits of Trees and drinking in the smoke that they would sing and dance After the same example the Indian Priests which they call Bulgiti being in consultation concerning the event of any business were wont to drink the smoke of Tobacco to make themselves mad and to enquire of the Divel concerning any business For the Indians were not accustomed to make warre or to undertake any business of consequence but they would first enquire of the Devill what should be the successe of it who answered them by the Mouths of those lying Prophets made drunk with the smoke of Tobacco The Priest being consulted with did burn the dry Leaves of Tobacco and he drew the smoke into his mouth by a cane or tunnel as now a daies our Country Men do too much the more the pitty being made so drunk with the smoke untill he fell fast asleep being deprived of all his Senses and being rapt into a certain extasie he fell down upon the ground where he lay most part of the day or night not able to move when his drunkenness was over he told them he had conferred with the Devil and as he thought so he delivered his mind Whether they should wage warre or not or undertake a journey and so he gave answers for all things they asked him of yet so doubtfull that let the event be what it would he could easily perswade the ignorant multitude that he fore-told it and thus he miserably deluded these barbarous people Also the Indian Physicians made drunk with this smoke and having lost their senses would relate a thousand things concerning the counsel of the gods and then they three or four times rubbed the sick Patients body with their hands In the mean time they held a bone in their mouth which the simple women afterwards kept as a relique Being demanded concerning a disease they answered all things to be well if it fell out otherwise they had their excuse ready the disease was mortal and it was a capital crime for them to neglect their ordinary customes Thus the enemy of mankind was wont to deceive the Gentiles In some places the same men were both their Physicians and their Priests But since the Effects of Tobacco are found to be so excellent I shall discourse of them more particularly In Distillations where a cold matter is the cause make a Fumigation of the dry leaves of Tobacco The Syrup of it is excellent for this will wonderfully stay Defluxions of Rheum The leaves chewed or bruised in the palate do the same These melt the flegme that is in the head and dry up the cels where the Rheum lieth by drawing forth the moisture from the foremost ventricles of the brain by that part which is commonly called the Tunnel I know not whether there can be a more happy or more certain Remedy found out for this purpose Also to strengthen the memory the smoke is excellent taken by the Nostrils for it is properly belonging to the brain and it is easily conveyed into the cels of it and it cleanseth that from all filth for the brain is the Metropolis of flegme as Hippocrates teacheth us in his book concerning the Kernels it must be taken three hours before meat for so it doth more conveniently discuss and cleanse the peccant humours I do not write this for their sake who by their daily miscarriage abuse themselves and spend good time in Tobacco-shops and make of their brain which is the most noble seat of the mind and the store-house of all knowledge and learning a chimney and a common shore and disgrace a Medicament that is otherwise very good and make themselves nothing but blowers of coles and ashes A famous Practitioner at Leyden D. Henricus Florâ—ntius sometimes related unto me that Dr. Pauvius a most experienced and excellent Anatomist of his time had once a subject for his Anatomical practice whose smelling was quite lost and there was not any thing left to be seen of the Processus Mammillares And this he conjectured by good Arguments to have happened by reason of the parties immoderate drinking of Tobacco About thirty years since or before that smoaking Tobacco through the nose hath been suspected and spoken against as if the continual and over-using of it did fill the brain with all vapours and last of all did corrupt it Let us hear what the most learned Dr. Iustus Rapheiengius who deserved exceeding much amongst Scholars writ sometimes unto me His words were these I remember saith he that Dr. Pauviâ—s in his first Anatomical practices dissected a strong young man and otherwise very sound whose brain was totally filled with black vapours like to soot D. Pauvius inquiring into the cause of that accident and referring it to Mania or some other disease of the head they answered that were acquainted with that
chearfull of their work and saith Nicolaus Monardus we found that by their example our servants and the Mâ—ors that come strangers into the West-Indians used to do the same for when they are weary and tired with many leapings and danceings they draw this Herb in by their Mouthes and Nostrils and so the same thing befals them that doth the Indians for about three or four houres they seem as if they were dead after this they are well refreshed and more able and chearfull to work then they were before And they take such pleasure in this that sometimes they will go out of sight that they may the more freely take it though they be not weary Yea they grow so mad that sometimes they are therefore punished for it by their Masters who also take care that their Tobacco may be burnt that so they may take from them all occasion of this pleasure What need more words I saw saith Nicholaus Monardus both the Servants and Moores that were not suffered to make â—hemselves drunk with Wine to drink the juyce of Tobacco and make themselves drunk wherein they take not small pleasure and they boast that it takes away wearinesse from them It is also as strange and wonderfull that the Inhabitants of Florida at some set times of the year will feed on the smoke only of this Plant which they suck into their Mouths by horns made for this use The Marriners are sufficient witnesses and many more that newly returned from Florida and more are daily coming back who having some things like horns or tunnels tide about their necks made of Palm tree leaves are much delighted with Reeds or Canes in the ends whereof these Leaves are fastned in Bundles when they are grown dry and withered Then put lighted Coles to the more narrow part of the Tunnel and draw with open mouth the fume that is raised as much as they can and they swear and maintaine it that hunger and thirst is thereby abated their Strength is restored their Spirits are cheared and their Braine is comforted with a kind of pleasant Drunkennesse and the superfluous Humours of it are consumed and an incredible quantity of Flegmatique Humours are drawn into their mouths Like to these is that which the said Monaâ—dus left in writing in his own Spanish Language The Indians saith he use Tobacco to stay hungâ—r and thirst and to drive it away for some daies that they may not need to eat or drink when they have cause to go abroad into Woods and Desarts and inhospitable places where meat and drink can hardly be got For they chew the leaves and mingle them with powder of great Cockle shels and these they hold in their mouthes together untill they come to a Mass and of that they make Trochisks so great as Pears which being dried in the shade when occasion is they use after this manner They put this pellet under their lips and fore-teeth and suck it as they travell and having sucked it all they swallow it down instead of meat and drink and fill their stomach By this means they will fast for three or four daies and lose no strength preserving as I think their native heat by the plenty of flegm which being suckt into the mouth is swallowed down with it and the stomach for want of better juyce turns it into nourishment To these things I shall adde what the most famous Physician to the Emperour Rombertus Dâ—doneus a great Scholar and who deserved much for his great skill in Plants reports in his late History of Plants I understand by the relation of my Friend saith he that drinking the juyce of this Plant about four or five Ounces in weight their belly is mightily troubled and they purge up and down after that they fall into a long and deep sleep There was a Countrey man that was strong of a middle age who had a Dropsy and he took this juyce and he when he awakened demanded for meâ—t and drink and after that he was well He relates also that he cured many Countrey-men of Agues with the distilled water of the leaves of Tobacco drâ—nk a litâ—le before his fit come But with the powder or the dry stalks and rabbish he soon cured gallings not only of men but of horses and other creatures These arâ—Dodonâ—us his words But to come more particularly to the Effects of Tobacco First of all the powder of the leveâ— of Tobacco finely beaten and sifted and blown into â—oth Noâ—trils in the morning through â— Quill is good against Catarrâ—s and all deâ—luxions upon the eyes and for pains and giddiness of the head if these proceed from a cold cause It purgeth all Humours that trouble the head marvellously like to an Errhine or nose-Purge and diverts them so we use it in the morning for some daies the body being well purged before The paines of the head legs armsf coming of wind or cold abate if you lay on one of Tobacco leaves green rosted on the fire upon the part If you want green leaves use those that are dry which you must moisten in Wine and lay under hot embers then sprinkling them with water of Naphtha they will be applied happily to the part You may do as much with the powder of the leaves dried mingling such things as are proper for these Diseases But you must repeat the cure so often untill the pain be gone In Convulsions and such like Diseases the leaves of Tobacco will do good if they be laid to the nape of the Neck Carolus Clusius affirms that the distilled water is good for clouds of the eyes to discuss them and to preserve the sight if you often wipe the eyes with it warm It cures deafness especially from a cold cause if you drop in one drop of the oyl or juyce warm into the ears for some daies together Doctor Monardus writes that he saw a man who for a long time had Ulcers in his Nostrils from whence there ran much fretting matter and filth that eat his Nostrils but at length when by his advice he snuft up the juyce of Tobacco into his Nostrils first he hawked up above twenty small worms then greater untill there were none remaining so that the inward Ulcers of his Nostrils you would have thought it a kind of Polypus were cured but the parts corroded and eaten up were not to be repaired and so it had been with all the rest had he not had the Physicians advice The juyce and oyntment of Tobacco takes away the redness of the face if you dip a fine rag in it and apply it to the cheek-bones Anoynting with the oyl doth the same or washing with the water of it A little leaf of Tobacco wrapt up into a lump be it a green or a dry leaf and this held in the mouth but the teeth must be first rubbed clean with a linnin cloath wet in the juyce of Tobacco