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A18770
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[Tabacco]
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Chute, Anthony, d. 1595?
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1595
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Tabacco brought from the Indians and purposelie dried in the shadow where the working of the sunne nor any otherheat may draw oâ—t the life and power which is found in it seing that that power and vertue which it groweth with retyres it selfe into the leafe and as the Paraceâ—sians and Chimists say is to be distilled and fetcht out by fire who is so fond as to thinke that when there is no other means for it to turne into water or to receiue compositions but that the thing being as it were breathed by the fire into a mans body should not conuay it selfe in a most subtile and pearcing substance into the distinct parts of our bodies and not almost worke the same effects in a man which a lightening doth in a corrupt ayre clensing and purifieng it from all stenches and bad vapours and from hence it is that a stincking breath proceeding not from any great or dangerous infection is by drinking Tabacco fasting in the morning clensed away but it is to be â—oted that in this case we are to receiue it in good quantity down so that it force to cough and either fetch the corruption off the stomacke which engenders it or at least wise drieth it vp and so takes away the cause For the head-ache proceeding of any cold or winde experiencâ— hath confirmed examples enow and our owne reasons if we wanted examples might be sufficiently strong to persuade vs that nothing should be more soueraigne Who but entends to watch extraordinarily I could wish he had but seene some of the same effects which it hath wrought in diuers that would neuer credit it till they had made triall onely drinking a pipe full at any time when we find our selues drowsy would wake Who hath euer found a more soueraign remedy against coughs rheume in the stomacke head and eyes from whence it will fetch the humor in so strange quantity as in some is admirable There is a certaine kinde of people that speak nothing but ridles they dwell vnder the hot clime of the still yeard they are somwhat nosie and very rich in diuers white and red excrements called Alebuttons I could wish that some of them had the wit after a certaine kind of merry assembling called the Drunkards round to allay that same distemperat vapour of pure Rhenish with a draught or two of this Tabacco There is a reason if they could hit on it that would persuade wise men that after they haue been in the land of Tanquam a little of this downeward 〈◊〉 fetch vp that same that makes them so mad in the brains and I doubt not but some honest remembrancer or other will put it into their heads that haunt those prouinces to vse this receipt when they intend good fellowship and would hold out But for any direction or order of receiuing it I will not take away from men of art so much right as to say directly you must vse this or that course that which I haue seen most vsed bringing forth best effect is to receiue it in the morning fasting for commonly men which vse it not idely find that at that time it doth them most ease And I would not that any should receiue it at any time but when he finds himselfe not well disposed or beeing well suspects either that he hath surfaited or something which he hath in his stomack may make him ill I haue found it very excellent and soueraigne beeing tired and weary with iournying too far but in this the quantety works the experiment for as a little causeth wakefulnesse so it beeing taken ouermuch as sixe or seauen pipes full it will procure a most profound sleepe and I haue found it taken away that wearisomnesse in one night which I haue thought would not haue left me in many daies and this I put in excecution to try how that was true that a Spaniard writes of the Indians who reporteth that after their trauels and labours they will drincke vnmeasurably of Tabacco which after they had slept tooke away all wearinesse of body and makes them as prompt and apt to businesse as if they had been many daies without doing any thing and surely I found it very neare the truth for the next day I did perceiue my wearinesse almost vtterly gone although not quite which perhaps might be for want of custome or because my sicknesse before was apt to make me feele that longer than I should haue done beeing well But that I may vse mine opinion which I will not confirme by any precise comparison I thinke that those writers which haue so effectually written of the nature of Tabacco by outward applications both knew the secreat effects of the greene leafe applying it to wounds and of the dried leafe receiuing it by pipes but hearing of so strange a maner of receiuing it as phisicke was neuer guilty to the vnderstanding of they thought it meet to preserue in a perpetuall concealment among themselues least being knowne to the world the inhabilitie of other hearbs and deuises being discouered and this made knowne it might turne to the common detrement and hurt of their Art for in reason why should any man lay open willingly or suffer another to enter into the secret conceipts and internetie of our knowledge when such internetie might make it either les prised or cause a publique cause to receiue a generall disesteeme for a particular occasion And I doubt not but if an idle Tabacconist and a hot Phisition were met without a moderator it would proue a hard question in their naturall reasons whether hee that first deuised this secret of drinking Tabacco being a phisition himselfe as surâ—ly I thing he was was worthy to be accompted a good or an euill person since he it is likely for his owne priuat commodity did make that knowne to many by the which many haue receiued more losse of gold in generall than any of them did receiue good to whom he did first impart it Well be he what he will or what he was I doubt not but he did a more good deed than hee was aduised of and therfore deserues in mine opinion to be otherwise requited than according to the quality of his deserts which if it may be thought infinite in respect of himselfe then let not him want his due for it were sin that since so few men deserue well any of them should cease to good workes because they want that respect in which their worth may interest them And thus farre for drinking of Tabacco which is more vulgarly receiued with vs now than euer and although it seems that the Indians vse to take this Tabacco in other maner of pipes than we yet I thinke we shall not need to thinke our earthen or â—â—â—ier pipes more vnapt than those which the Indians make of Palme leaues and such like I could stand longer to persuade the world of some wonders that I haue seen effected with one draught of excellent Tabacco but some
LONDON Printed for William Barlow and are to be sold at his shop in Gracious-street 1595. ⧠To the Heroicall minded Gentleman Maister Humphrey King BY the Authors immutable decree being his last this booke was destinate to you and vpoÌ„ your allowance to passe for authorised What he willed I haue performed Agreeing in this with the Authors opinion That the clerest sighted can best iudge of colours What your experieÌ„ce is in this diuine hearbe al men do know and acknowledge you to bee The Souereigne of Tabacco and for such they do honor you If I doe not otherwise vse those tearms of skill phrases in your commendation which are commonly accustomed to bee set foorth to the worthie patrons of mens works which the Author no doubt would haue done if he had liued it is for want of knowledge both of art to do it and of your perfections which doe merit more than I can giue sufficient testimonie of only by the report that runneth of your fame I doe auouch in one word that you are Most-worthie And for such I do recommend this rare worke of a most pretious hearbe vnto you What may either be said for it or surmised against it you know right well and therefore I doe leaue all men to receaue your instruction and you to Gods mercifull protection A. I. ⧠The Printer to the Reader GEntle Reader this discourse of Tabacco being left in my hands by a gentleman who in his owne particuler had seene great triall of the effects thereof and as well by priuat conference with men of learning as by the reading of such authors of credit who haue reported the strange and woonderfull operations thereof he was mooued to make knowne vnto all men that which the most part did doubt of touching the vse practise thereof as well in taking the smoke of it with the Pipe the leafe being drie as in applieng the greene leafe to the cure of many sores and diseases What he did vndertake and giue me in charge as it were by his last Will I haue put in execution and published the same according to the request of the partie deceased Which I haue done with more willingnesse being credibly informed by diuers of good credit that besides the effects reported by the author of the taking of it with the Pipe it hath cleered the sight in a knight of great Commaundment and Worship and cured a gentleman that long languished of a Consumption I doubt not but it hath many other strange vertues which are yet vnknowne But these that are alreadie approoued I doe recommend vnto thy view and vse and so do I wish thee all happinesse THE DESTINCT and seuerall opinions of the late and best Phisitions that haue written of the nature of TABACCO Gathered togither for the better assurance and confirmation of the diuers natures and qualities therof IT is an especial note which I haue obserued in all mine authors that in respect of curing wounds cuts or other harmes almost whatsoeuer and in which this hearbe is of vertue to heale whilest it is yet greene that the same naturall operations in it then the verie same are to be had in it wheÌ„ it is now dried according as the Indians of Trinidade vse in laying it in the shadow and where no wind or sunne come to draw out the power or vertue in exhalations Indeed it would seeme somewhat much for any man to say that if the drying of it were acording to the care of them who here with vs make it their trade to gaine by that we might attribute so much power to it being dried after such a maner but surely I cannot thinke but that comming from those poore people where couetousnesse hath not taught the childe to cut his fathers throat for gaine or to dissemble with any for profit we may esteeme it either as good as the greene or at least as that greene which growes heere in our clime which reason persuades vs is vnapt to bring foâ—th the hearbe in hir naturall heat and vertue being so hote and our soile so cold Another thing I haue much wondered at wherefore diuers hauing discourst so largely vpon the applying it to vlcers burninges wounds such like they haue not longer stayed vppon the reportes which they might make of receiuing it in pipes as we now vse vnlesse it be for this and indeede I iudge it one of the chiefe causes that time and experience which both corrects old and brings forth new things either had not discouered to those writers the maner of receiuing it as we now vse it or if they did vse it yet it had been so little time in practise as they had not seene those conclusions wrought wrought by it which we haue and to say truth who hath long known it an vsuall thing in this part of the world to drinke Tabacco and yet who is he that euer knew it longest and can iustly say that this or that discommoditie is come to him by it vnlesse drinking it extreamly he hath changed the good into a bad effect since euerie extreme vertue is a vice and then who will either deeme Tabacco worse since he hath abused it or not iudge him ill deseruing so good a benefite that knowes not how to make his profite hauing so easie a meanes as a moderate receipt And by this meanes I doubt not but some hath both done themselues wrong wronged vs and done other iniurie who if they had not heard of some whom vnrespectiue drincking had harmed would happily haue been soone drawen to vse it for their health who now remaining feared with examples shunne it as an inconuenience which els they had entertained as a publicke good But heere I would not that anie man should thinke I arrogate to my selfe any title of perfection in phisick far be it from my thoughts that I should interest my selfe vnworthily in that which by no right I can claime but Salua reuereâ—â—ia I presume that no man wil impute it as an error to me that I shuld speak generally in some respects my experience shall not detract from their studies and let no man take offence that since I speake of my selfe what I haue tried on my selfe they may thinke I go about to impriuiledge their knowledge of that respect which belongs vnto them I wâ—iâ—e not as willing to expose myself to the rude censure of any iâ— I thought it would doe anie man more wrong in particular than it would doe good to 〈…〉 generall I protest I would not be found a man that would doe wrong who entertaines my labours is not beholding to me but to him that commands me to doe what I haue done and to him will I attribute all respect and merit But to proceed before I come to mine authors you shal haue the opinion of a yonger Dr. who loues and hath made as farre trials of drinking Tabacco as any man that is found who doubts saith he but hauing leaues of