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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18770	[Tabacco]	Chute, Anthony, d. 1595?	1595 (1595)	STC 5262.5; ESTC S292	14,914	61

helping all wounds sores and bruses euen restoring to men which by some aduenture haue lost their nailes new ones by washing that part with the water destilled and afterward wrapping them vp in fine linnen clothes dipt in the water Some there are also who to speake like a Chimist doe distill oyle of Tabacco per descensum which oile these authors agreing with the Paracelsians preferre before all other applications either of leaues iuice or pouder because the quintescences and extractions drawne out of the simples are the subtill spirit and haue the purest vertue and facultie of the substance from the which they are drawne They prescribe vnto vs this kinde of receipt Take of the choisest and most substantial leaues of this Tabacco one pound beat them in a morter of Marble after take halfe a pound of sweet hogs grease refind and clarified without salt and this being melted ad to it the Tabacco and set it ouer a soft fire to seeth deliberatly vntill such time as you finde the waterish humour of the Tabacco vapoured away and that the mingled substances retaine the fourme of a perfect ointment this reserue for a singular and medicinable good Another is this Take Rosel new wax and turpentine of each three ounces melt them togither and then adde vnto them a pound of Tabacco prepared as before mingle them togither and after with a slow fire set them to incorporat seething togither fiue or sixe howers vntill the water of the Tabacco be cleane vapoured away after this is done straine it through a course linnen cloath that may be very strong afterward take halfe a pound of Venice Turpentine and infuse it into these thinges beforesaid without any more boyling of it but stirring it continually vntill it be cold afterwards preserue these as pretious ointments touching their effects the first of these two is the better for sores vlcers carbuncles tetters and to dissolue than the second because Tabacco hath so much the more efficacy by how much there are fewer commixions The second is better than the first to consolidate any wound dissolue impostumes and swellings to appease their rage Further you may make a singular Baulme by cutting greene leaues of Tabacco and putting them into a glasse well stopt if you set it a good time in hot water or in the sunne or buried in Ventre equino by the space of fortie daies and doubtlesse you shal finde so singular a baulme as shal not be lesse admirable say mine authours than that oile which is made by the Paracelsians for all kind of vses that shall be desired in a hearbe of that nature AeGidius Eurartus in his discourse De herba Panacaea writeth how a certaine woman had giuen her cat a very strong poyson when the poore cat was now in that taking that she could not stand with dissinesse and striued to void forth the poison in vaine the woman remēbring her selfe found means to open her iawes and making a little ball of brused Tabacco mingled with butter thrust it into hir mouth and so swallowing it downe within a short time shee cast vp all the poison and so was saued L●o 〈◊〉 wils that we should gather the leaues in the moneth of Iuly and then bruse and distill them in a double Limbecke with two spouts of glasse and keepe this a yeare for saith he this receiued to the quantitie of an ounce for the increasing of health in a sicke stomacke is most effectuall There is likewise a Salt and an Oile to be made of Tabacco both of them more singular and effectuall for all diseases than either the leaues or iuice or water which the Paracelsians and Chimists generally agree in because they will that in this oyle should be contained the true life and naturall vertue in greater substance and better qualitie than any of the other Iacobus Gohorius a Parisien teacheth vs this maner of making of the Salt First saith he calcine this Tabacco and afterward dissolue it poure it into a pipkin and let it vapour according to reason this shalbe singular for vlcers and such like and this is the maner of drawing salt out of all vegitable things burne your hearbe first in the fire yet some vse to drie it in the shadow but being euen burnt to ashes you haue the more salt afterward taking a leaden vessell full of most pure cleare water infuse these ashes which being set to the fire let it boile some quantitie and then poure it into an other vessell where receiuing it in a clean cloth let it hang a while by the fire that the water may drie it selfe cleane away and not to haue any moisture remaining and in this cloath being so drie shall you find that Salt Another maner is this take the hearbe being dried and put it into a close pipkin vnder which you shall make fire vntil it be burnt into a fine white ashe then let it boile in raine water or distilled water vntill the fourth part be cōsumed then let it stand a while and after poure it into an other vessell which shall be full of pure and cleare water and that which shall goe out of the pipkin euaporat with a slow fire into a glas-bottle and the Salt shal remaine in the bottome Leonardus Fier●nantus a famous Phisition of our time writes that he tooke the roote and seed of Tabacco and brused them togither in a morter the leaues waighed saith he foure poundes afterward he went and laid them in Ventre equin● by the space of thirtie daies and to the end that it might not corrupt he put in some Salt with sixe ounces of Aqua vitae then distilling it in Balneo Mariae euen to the extraction of al the moistnesse and to the end he might the better conserue it he added so much oile of Sulpher that it euen smelt of it and with this composition he serued his turne in sundry occasions those which were troubled with agues he was wont to cure heereby giuing them but one spoonfull at once those which were wounded or otherwise hurt if they did either drinke hereof or bath their wounds in some quantity of it not without great admiration he vsed to to cure These be the opinions that be tearmed Receptiores of this plant i. that be more receiued than the rest and these I haue deliuered therfore not of mine owne otherwise than of mine owne collection but from the best Phisitions that haue written latest thereof if therfore the natures of Tabacco and the diuerse qualities it hath be more confirmed than before it is well if not it is neuer the worse I meane it shall neuer the more nor disable nor derogate from it this I say because there be so many heads as there be bodies to beare them so many wits and so many iudgements will follow some of knowledge some of experiēce some of fancie some one way some another euery man according to his humor well the plant hath growen the Phisition written and the author of this worke hath gathered who wisheth euery one his due the planter the writer and the reader FINIS

Tabacco brought from the Indians and purposelie dried in the shadow where the working of the sunne nor any otherheat may draw o●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 Parace●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 ●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 experienc● 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 sur●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 ●●●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