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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20030	A defence of tabacco vvith a friendly answer to the late printed booke called Worke for chimny-sweepers, &c.	Marbecke, Roger, 1536-1605.	1602 (1602)	STC 6468; ESTC S109505	41,491	72

with a long discourse to set out the nature and force of custome and to tell what great acts she can do and bring to passe all which we do yeeld vnto But yet this is nothing to the chiefe point in question And for a briefe answer to all that is or may be said in that behalfe I am not of opinion that the Indians long vsing of it hath made it no poison to them but contrariwise because of it selfe and in his owne nature it was not a poison nor any hurtfull thing therefore with them it grew into custome For it is most likely in all common sence and reason that things must first either be found or knowne or at the least thought to be good and wholesome before they can be drawne into any vse and custome Some litle triall and experience I confesse must be had of them to know and find out the true nature of euery thing whether they be good or no but yet that little trial would neuer bring it to a daily custome or long vse but would by and by be checked and controlled if the thing it selfe were not found good and wholesome vpon the first proofe and triall thereof So that as I haue sayd alreadie i● is much more probable that the goodnesse of a thing is the cause of the custome thereof and not the custome cause of the goodnesse As for those particular instances of the people that Virgil maketh mention of and of the woman and maide that fed vpon poysons and killed others with her breath and yet liued her selfe let them either be true stories or but reports from mouth to mouth let them I say be what they will yet I account them but as pretty and rare obseruations of certaine secret Sympathies and inward workings of nature more to be wondered at for the strangenesse thereof then to be of any force to proue any thing against Tabacco or to be answered for any great matter of moment in this case But yet if it so please you let all this be granted That vse and custome doth make a thing good in time and yet what haue you got by this then For then all the Tabacconists haue that that they would haue For if custome say they made it good to the Indians why may it not do the like to the English in time If custome be the matter and all in all then let vs alone for we will bring it into as great vse and custome as euer aniething was In that you graunt it to haue such a prerogatiue for the Scorbute commonly called the Scuruy and for other the like diseases incident to that kind of people herein also you haue sayd verie much in his commendation For there is no disease that is more loathsome then that is neither is there anie that deserueth greater reward for the cure then that doth I am sure it is not vnknowne to you what a notable treatise is written by that worthie old man Wyerus about the curing of this Scuruie as they call it and how much he hath written in the praise of one poore herbe called Coclearia in respect that it is so wholesome for the cure of that disease And if Tabacco haue this singular gift also for that disease then I hold him in great regard and estimation and account of him as of an excellent simple that deser●eth rather to be worthily written of then to be so bitterly inueighed against To conclude at the last when you haue ended all your talke of the Scuruie then yet you labour to proue Tabacco to be a poyson forsooth this way Because say you when it is taken of an infected body it draweth out the poyson like to himselfe Your owne words are these or to this effect That Tabacco doth the like to other poysons which when they find any of their owne qualitie and nature in mans body c. they draw forth the same the lik● coueting his like and yet leaue the sound and healthy humours cleare and vnspotted Blessed God I neuer heard of such a reason in al my life For in my poore opinion in saying this that you haue said you haue mightily freed Tabacco euen from the very suspition of all poyson or else I am wonderfully deceiued In this place there is some occasion offered to speake somewhat of the nature and manner of purgatiues in Phisicke Namely to tell by what meanes this act of purging is performed and what be the true causes of this attraction or drawing or purging of humors in a mans body He that shall enter into this question shall find a large field to plough For there be manie opinions about it and all earnestly defended some saying it is à manifesta qualitate others ab occulta aliqua vi coelesti virtute others some ab ipsa forma specifica as they tearme it And some againe à violento quodam motu contrarietate substantiae but the most famous for learning say it is à similitudine naturae and that is Galens opinion albeit he is mightily gainesaid and sore taxed for the same by that learned and famous man Valariola And therefore knowing that this discourse would be rather tedious then profitable in so short a Treatise as this is I will leaue that point for this time and rather seeke to answer your words as they lye in order Two things you do attribute vnto Tabacco the one is that from infected bodies it draweth out all the ill humours the other is that it leaues all the other humors in the bodie cleare and vnspotted as you say Two notable properties I assure you and such as would rather make a man in loue with Tabacco then cause him to hate it as a poyson What does Tabacco draw out of an infected bodie corrupt venimous humors because it is a corrupt venom it selfe and is like to those venimous humours that are drawne out by it and expelle● Me thinke in common sence that should not be so As I told you euen now so I say againe I will not stand vppon the examining and sifting out of the causes and the meanes of this sayd attraction and expulsion of humours for there be many opinions of that point as hath bene alreadie said and all of them probable and defensible But thus much both you and I do confesse and we see it also to be so that ill humors be purged or expelled or tumbled out of the body Marry how they do come out and by what meanes that cannot I tell but that they do come ou● that is flat and plaine and euerie man sees it by these said purgatiues And now Sir to leaue all schoole questions aside and plainely and bluntly to come to the point let me aske you but this familiar question Doth one friend vse to driue out another friend out of his house when he findeth him there who is like to himselfe in nature good will and conditions or rather doth he thrust out and expell a theefe if he