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england_n	wood_n	wool_n	yield_v	22	3	7.0281	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

decking vp of their gardens as being a strange plant and seld seen more then for the hidden vertues of the hearb but now it is much more famous by reason of his rare qualities then for his elegancie and beauty that it carrieth in a garden The common people of India vsually tearme it Picielt for the name of Tabacco first came from the Spaniards because there was such plentie of it grew in a certain Iland called Tabacco according to the name wherof they haue christned it Andrew Theuet saith that the Americans haue a secret herbe which they name in their language Petum the which most commonly they beare about them for that they esteeme it marueilous profitable for many things this herbe is like to our buglosse They gather this herbe very charily and drie it within their little cabanes or houses Their manner to vse it is this they wrap a quantitie of this herbe being drie in a leafe of a Palme-tree which is very great so they make rolles of the length of a candle and then they fire the one end and receiue the smoak thereof by their nose and by their mouth they say it is verie wholesome to cleanse and consume the superfluous humors of the braine Moreouer being taken after this sort it keepeth the parties from hunger and thirst for a time therefore they vse it ordinarily Also when they haue any secret talke or counsell among themselues they draw this smoake and then they speake The which they doe customably one after another in the warre whereas it is very needful The women vse it by no meanes If that they take too much of this perfume it will make them light in the head as the smell or taste of strong wine The Christiās that do inhabite there are becom verie desirous of this perfume although that the first vse thereof is not without danger before that one be accustomed thereto for this smoke causeth sweats and weakenes yea foaming at the mouth suddaine falling downe and conuulsions as I haue seene in some And this is no such strange thing as it seemeth for there are many other herbs and fruits that offend the braine though that the taste of them bee pleasant and good to eate Plinie sheweth that in Lyncestis there is a fountaine that maketh the people drunke that take thereof Likewise another of Paphlagonia which as Ouid saith in the 15 booke of his Metamorphosis will cause a man to bee no lesse drunke then if he had copiously quaffed a great deale of wine His words be these Quem quicunque parùm moderato gutture traxit Haud aliter titubat quàm si mera vina bibisset This I know will not be receiued of all men for truth and yet Philosophers doe witnesse that there is in Esclanonie by Apollonia a fountaine comming out of a rock wheras is seene to proceed a flame of fire whereby al the waters adiacent are as boyling They haue in diuers places of Hisp. Noua many hot springs of water as aboue all other I haue seen in the Prouince of Mechuacan In a plain field without any mountaine there is spring which hath much water and it is so hot that if a whole quarter of beefe be cast into it within one halfe houre it will bee as well sodden as it will bee ouer a fire in halfe a day I haue seen half a sheep cast in immediatly it hath been soddē I haue eaten part of it this hath the learned Hackcluit set down in his booke discoursing of the voiages of the English nation by the relation of Henrie Hawkes a marchant who liued three yeares in Noua Hispania I will proceede a little further in relating strange things in nature In Bactria in the Citie of Boghar there is a litle riuer running through the midst of it but the water is vnholesome for it breedeth sometimes in men that drinke thereof and specially in them that are there borne a worme of an elle long which licth commonly in the legge betwixt the flesh and the skinne and is pluckt out aboue the ankle with great art and cunning Diodorus Siculus reporteth that in Egypt there was a poole the colour of whose water was vermilion which being drunke would reueale secrets Strabo speaketh of a fountaine in the Citie Leuca of a most horrible smell Besides this is verie strange that there is a fountaine besides Haslea which neuer riseth but early in the morning at high noone and at the shutting of the euening And if therein any euill thing bee cast that may corrupt the same Theodorus Zuingerus mentioneth that for certaine daies after it will not rise at all There is a fountaine in Salmac in the countrey of Caria which as Strabo writeth maketh men effeminate and lither That of Aphrodosium in Pyrrhea causeth barrennesse as Plinie noteth and such like a man man may easily finde if any will take paines to read ouer the booke entituled Britannia written by that most learned and famous gentleman master Wil. Camden the best antiquary of our age he shal there I say haue plenty wherat to admire peraduēture to giue satisfaction to that which here I haue set down for truth Some I doubt not but will imagine this not to bee true but altogether false the which I haue spoken touching the natures and strange qualities of these waters and of this herbe Tabacco as though Nature could not giue such power to things yes truely and farre greater as shee hath also giuen to beasts according to the diuersities of countries and regions Wherefore then should it leaue this countrey of America wherein God included the greatest gulfe of mankind void of such a benefite being naturally proper to it and being temperate without comparison more then others As in generalitie Africke yeeldeth the best Mules Europe the best Lions as Herodotus and Plinie make report onely to be found between the riuers Nestus and Achelous the one coasting Abdera a citie of Thracia the other being a floud of Epyrus separateth Acarnania from Aetolia So in particular we find England yeeldeth the greatest store of good sheepe wooll tinne and lead Muscouia the best Bees yeelding honie and waxe in plentie and the best furres Wherefore a learned Physician is to obserue what store of vegetables either of woods trees for fruite or plants the countrie yeeldeth for euerie country hath his commodities and singularitie of them fitted by the prouidence of the eternall God As we read of in Asia and Virginia singular Cedars and Pine trees So we haue experience that for firre and Deale trees Denmarke Bohemia Pomerania Russia Norway and the New-found land are notorious For Vines France for apples peares plums and such ordinarie fruit the realme of England For oranges lymons pomgranates and such like Spaine and other hot countries for Oyle and Oliues Candia c. As for the second concerning things hid in the veines and wombe of the earth for what shall we neede to enlarge this discourse