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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	flower_n	leaf_n	root_n	3,163	5	8.2692	4	true

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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

of which disease is to stop the passage of the wind and make vs breath vneasily This hearbe in fourme much resembleth Consonde and is of so neer a likenesse and resemblance that you would iudge it to be the greater Consond The maine stalke of Tabacco groweth vpright big in proportion his leaues are velueted and are in growth bigger and larger at the stalke than towards the end of the leafe resembling the plaine fourme of any other leafe not ragged saue that you shall haue some leaues broader and larger than both your hands and in length as much as three hands breadth Some you shall haue growing very high somtimes to the heigth of nine or ten foote yea somtimes a cubit but that fortunes according to the ordering of it when it is sowne The leaues somtimes grow halfe a foot distant the one from the other if it hath any great heigth The floure of the Tabacco is much like the floure of Niel sometimes yellow and somtimes of a carnation colour and som●times in fourme like a bell And when it casteth the flower it leaues the former proportion and taketh the semblance of an apple in which you may finde the seeds inclosed very small appearing not much vnlike to Iusquiasm seedes which are yellowish but when they grow to be toward their full ripenesse then they appeare more neare to a blacke In those regions from whence we receiued first the knowledge hereof Tabacco hath both floure seed and leafe at one instant but the reason is those countries of the Indians are better and apter to bring forth sooner such hot hearbes than a cold climate In the nine or tenth month it springeth very much at the foot for then is the roote fastned into the ground with a great sort of very weake strings Who would make experiment of the greene leafe to apply it to any vlcer sore or cut shall in brusing of it finde a iuice thicke and slimie but in the smell it is indifferentlie well sauoring although such as haue no vse of the smell would iudge it strong and noisom in tast it is somewhat biting it is drie in the first degree and whosoeuer would haue it good should doe wel to sow it in the hottest and most fertill ground for such it requireth The best place wherin it will most prosper and be naturally planted in our countries is where the sunne shineth most and if it be possible against some wall which may defend it from the North winde which is an infinite enemy to this hearbe and withall it were conuenient that no winde at all beeing ouer rigourous should come neere it for the weakenesse of the stalke caused by the high growth of the hearbe is such that a small winde will blow it downe vnlesse happily it be deeply rooted If the weather be ouer drie it will desire much watering Cold kils this and therefore all means are to be vsed against it Who would sow it ought by the opinion of the best skild in Phisicke to take this order first take a dosen seeds of those which you finde inclosed in that part of the seede which resembleth the bell and put them togither into one hole about three inches deep in the ground and the cause why you are to plant it deepe is because the seeds be very small and little and might be choaked If the weather be ouer drie you shall doe well to water it fifteene daies together It may be sowne in manner like the hearbe Laistich whose seeds are mingled with earth or sand It will seeme long ere it appeare aboue ground but that will be according to the nature of the ground and yet euen then it will be longer than many other seedes but immediatly as soone as you see it begin to spring you shall couer it as much as you can conueniently least that frosts or cold or tempestious raine nip it away or wash it downe and after conuenient time of growth you shall take it vp by the roote cutting vp the ground round about so that there may none of the strings of the roote be broken which to preuent you may very wel wash away the earth with water and then replant it again neer some wal within two or three foot but if the ground be not good there as commonly it may happen then prepare with apte manuring it For the time of sowing it in England I agree rather with Monardes than these two who say it is best sowing it in the midst of Aprill but I would rather hold it better to sow it in March for the same occasion that Monardes writeth howbeit Stephen and Liebault write that the Spaniards and Indians sow it after haruest It is hot and drie in the second degree and therfore fit vndoubtedly to purge and clense by experience they affirme it hath healed Noli me tangere so named because it resembleth I thinke a curst shrew that must not be toucht when shee is angry It hath healed the disease called the Wolfe the Canker the kings euill all old sores wounds ●etters broad biles Apostumes pricking of the fish called Viues the nature of whose touch is to procure infinite bleeding euen to death and diuerse other diseases which experience hath not yet brought to light These men affirme that who so hath the gout and when the extreamitie of the paine beginneth rubbeth the infected place with oyle Oliue and afterwards apply warme leaues of Tabacco shall find great ease Who taketh the leaues and seeths them in water and maketh thereof a sirupe with sugar and receiueth of it euerie morning to the quantitie of two ownces shall finde how much power it hath to dissolue grosse humors to ease the hard drawing of the breath breake an old cough or fleume how it causeth dissolution of hard swellings in the body if before the receipt heerof we receiue some vniuersall purge and then the iuice of the leaues vnstop the kidney and softneth the hardnesse by being onely applied vnto the region of the kidny and in case we want of the leaues the pouder mingled with any ointment proper to such an euill is auailable The same means auaileth in coldnesse of the stomacke the bellie the collique and the inward partes being applied to the Nauil They affirme that in France a man hauing a sore vlcer or impostume caused by the euil of naples that we cal in English the French something was immediatly cured therof It is a singular remedie against soundings to receiue the smoke as we vse with pipes that which is more strange than the world wold credit the inhabitants of Florida often nourish themselues four or fiue daies together by the smoke neither eating nor drinking any thing whatsoeuer and this is most certainly confirmed by that which he writeth More than this writeth Liebault that there are which distill water of the green leaues of Tabacco in a Limbecke of glasse which water is no lesse singular in all effects than the very iuice