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A13306	An aduice hovv to plant tobacco in England and how to bring it to colour and perfection, to whom it may be profitable, and to whom harmfull. The vertues of the hearbe in generall, as well in the outward application as taken in fume. With the danger of the Spanish tobacco. Written by C.T.	C. T., 17th cent.; W. R., fl. 1615, attributed name.	1615 (1615)	STC 23612; ESTC S111304	9,694	24

take the leafe of Saint Domingo or the leaues of Dominica and of the Ilands adioyning or those Indian leaues that are of a deep yellow or slight tawny which colours are naturall and forbeare the blacke which is foule the dyed Tobacco which is red and the leafe brought in by the Portugalles and the like slubbered stuffe The Tobacco which comes from the Barmuda is cast away either by neglecting to prune it or else because they nourish ouer-many leaues on one stalke which they do either out of Ignorance or for that they couer to haue the greater quantity or otherwise because as I heare they imitate the Spaniards in iuicing it that place would otherwise giue vs that which is excellent and so would Virginia For the rest after you haue taken your Tobacco out of your stoue you must layit abrode some three or foure dayes for if you make it vp too moist it will grow mouldy For conclusion because there hath beene much dispute about this hearbe whether it bee wholsome or harmfull I will let my Countreymen know what by long experience and conference with others I finde It is taken in all America euen from Canada to the straights of Magellan in all Affrica vpon the coast from Barbary to the Cape of good hope and so till you come to the mouth of the red sea it is also vsed in most of all the kingdomes of the East Indies The Spaniards and Indians of the West giue vs three principall reasons why they vse it the first is because it opens the body and le ts out the heate by the pores which is praeter naturam within them the second is the consumption and auoyding of superfluous moysture wherewith they are filled by eating of fruits abundantly by drinking of water and in all the In-land Countries for want of salt the third is because it staies both hunger and thirst and doth refresh them after great trauaile and toyle these be the general vertues and knowne to all but the Spanish Physitians their Priests and others that are learned finde somewhat else and of more importance in this hearbe for they vse a confection of Tobacco in all Callentures or burning feuers and they take it in smoke to defend them in long nauigations from the scuruy and they cure with it all sores and vlcers yea it is certaine that the iuice of Tobacco mixt with a little sea-water doth resist the venome of poysoned arrowes wherewith the Spaniards how slight soeuer the hurt bee are without such a help wounded to death The Brasilians say that it is cordiall and they also take it to stay hunger and thirst when they trauel and want sustenance The people of the South-parts of Virginia esteeme it exceedingly and so doe the rest they say that God in the creation did first make a woman then a man thirdly great maize or Indian wheat and fourthly Tobacco they vse it for the curing of wounds and in smoke as we doe and they are superstitiously led to beleeue that when they are in danger of drowning in foule wether that if they cast Tobacco into the water that the billow will fall and grow lesse Monardus the Spaniard commends it in all pains of the head growing by defluctions or windy vapors in the tooth-ake occasioned by cold rume in all diseases of the breast old coughes asmaticall passions and the like in all paines of the ioynts and swellings if the leaues roasted vnder imbers be often applied which the Indian women administer to their children for the coldnesse of their stomacke and windinesse The same Author affirmeth that in the suffocation of the matrix it is a present remedie if the leaues made warme be applied to the nauell or bottome of the belly in all greene woundes and vlcers and in the gangrene he prizeth it aboue all other vegetables yea hee affirmeth that an experience was made in the presence of King Philip the second of Spaine vpon a dogge poysoned These be Monardus his words as I finde them in Clusius Rex ipse Catholicus eius vires experiri volens Cani vulnus infligi iussit in gutture toxico quo ven●●atores vtuntur illini paulo post foliorum Tobacci succum satis copiose instillari ipsa folia trita super vulnus ligari liberatus est canis non sine omnium admiratione The Catholicke King willing to make triall of the vertue of it caused a dogge to haue a wound made in his throat and to be anointed with poyson which the hunters vse and a while after he made the iuyce of Tobacco to bee plentifully powred into it and the brused leaues to be bound vpon the wound and the dogge was healed to the no smal admiration of all that were present The same Author commends this hearbe for the cure of the Polypus and doth avow that he himselfe hath cured it with the iuice of Tobacco Clusius in his experience affirmeth that in all old vlcers putride and of a maligne quality in the gangren in the scabbes clouds in the eyes c. he hath vsed the vnguent of Tobacco with happy successe Mr Gerald in his history of plants or great herball tels vs that the dropsie hath been cured with the iuice of Tobacco and in the same book he teacheth the cōposition of an vnguent made with the lesser or male Tobacco which booke because the poorer sort are not able to buy that the said Gerald doth so highly commend the vse of this hearbe I thought good to take it out word for word for the common good of all poore people needing such a remedy and these be his words I do make hereof an excellent balsame to cure deepe wounds and punctures c. which balsame doth bring vp the flesh from the bottome very speedily also heale simple cuts in the flesh according to the first intention that is to glew or soder the lips of the wound together not procuring matter or corruption vnto it as is commonly seene in the healing of wounds Take saith he oyle of roses oyle of Saint Iohns wort of either one pint the leaues of Tobacco stamped smal in a stone morter two pound boyle them together to the consumption of the iuice straine it and put it to the fire againe adding thereunto of Venice Turpentine two ounces of Olibanum and Mastic of either halfe an ounce in most fine and subtill powder which may at all times make it into an vnguent or salue by putting therunto wax and rosin to giue vnto it a stiffe body He further saith that the iuice or distilled water of the lesser leafe is very good against catharres the dizinesse of the head and rhumes that fall down to the eyes against the paine called the Migrame if either you apply it to the temples or take one or two greene leaues or the drye leafe moystened in wine and warmed on Imbers and apply it Many notable medicines are made hereof against the old and inueterate cough