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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

with the huge woods to bee found in Germanie Bohemia Muscouia and Ireland or with the notorious vegetables of other nations namely the mines of mettals and fossiles wherof there are such sundry species as it may seeme impertinent of vs to be further touched considering so soone as they are discouered they be committed to writing Some besides will not grant this to be true but altogether false that Andreas Theuetus writeth that Tabacco keepeth the Indians from hunger and thirst for a certain time although that our Epicureall Tabbacconists will sufficiently refute the contrarie for they will say and for a need sweare to it that they can liue a whole weeke together neither eating nor drinking any other sustenance And if they wil not be cōtented with this our witnessing and affirmation let them read Herodotus which in his second booke maketh mention of a people in Africa liuing onely with hearbes Apian rehearseth that the Parthians being banished and driuen out of their countrey by Marous Anthonius liued with a certaine herbe that tookeaway their memorie neuerthelesse they had opinion that it did nourish them though that in a short time after they died Master Stephen Burrough did see some Lappians eat rocke weedes as hungerly as a cowe doth grasse when she is hungry I saw them also saith hee eate fowles egges raw and the young birds also that were in the egges The Indians will liue seuen or eight moneths in the warre with meale made of certaine hard and drie rootes in the which some would iudge that there were no nourishment or sustenance at all And they will tell strangers who arriue in their coasts that they haue heard say of their fathers that before they had the knowledge of the best rootes they liued but with hearbs and wilde weeds roots like brute beasts There was they say in their country a great Charaiba that is to say a Prophet the which came to one of their young maidens and gaue her certaine great roots named Hetich shewing her that she should cut them in peeces and then plant them in the earth the which she did and since they haue alwaies continued from father to sonne the which roots haue so well prospered that now they haue so great aboundance that they eat little other food and it is as common with them as bread is with vs. The old Poets and ancient people of the world did conceit that the Gods themselues did feede vpon nothing but Nectar and Ambrosia yea and that some of them had worse cōmons meaner meats as they write of Romulus who being a God as they say liued vpon turneps But I thinke that they rather alluded vnto the pouertie and simplicitie of feeding that was vsed in former ages wherewith Romulus was so well acquainted The Poet Martialis seemeth couertly to insinuate that they eat the same meats in heauen wherewith in earth they were inured to feede vpon in these verses Haec tibi brumali gaudentia frigore rapa Quae damus in coelo Romulus esse solet Therefore ought not the Storie of this Gentleman Tabacco bee thought so strange for men to liue withall as thought the like had neuer been heard or read of in histories and times forepassed The people of the East and West India haue diuers kindes of fruits proper only to those regions as Nature bringeth them forth and yet they liue long and well disposed being strong and of robustious constitutions yea they will liue I meane the people of America a whole weeke together with one groat which neither the Spanyard nor any nation in the world can doe as Petrus Martyr saith And for their long liues we may read in the learned Hackluit discoursing of the voiages of the English nation in farre distant parts of the world who introduceth the example of the King of Balloboam being one hundred and threescore yeeres of age when captaine Candish arriued at the Iland of Iaua Minor and yet he was liuing after that many yeares at that time when the Hollanders trauailed thither to the towne of Bantam which is the furthest part in the world from this realme of England being measured geometrically Therebe many who thinke it strange that some nations liue onely with fish and yet he that is but meanly trauailed in Histories knoweth that the poorest sort among the West Indies liue more with sea-fish and other like meats than with flesh The same is true in this our Isle of Britaine especially among the Cornish men and Scots yea our elders in times past liued onely with fish as many sects in religion both in these dayes and in former ages did The lawes of Triptolemus as Xenophon writeth did defend and forbid the Athenians the vse of flesh Therefore it is no strange thing to liue with fish onely First in our Europe and before that the ground was tilled men liued more hardly without flesh or fish hauing not the meane to vse them and yet notwithstanding they were stronger and liued the longer being nothing so effeminate as now in our age Americus Vespusius one of the best Pilots that euer was coasted almost from Ireland vnto the cape of Saint Augustine by the comandement of the King of Portingale the yeare 1501. And since another Captain the yeare 1534. sayled vnto the region named of Giants In this Region between the riuer of Plate and the streight of Magellane the Inhabitants are verie mightie named in their language Patagones Giants because of their hie stature and forme of bodies They which first discouered this countrey tooke one of them finely being twelue foot long who was so vneasie to hold that 25. men had inough to doe about him and for to keep him it behooued them to binde his feet and hands in their shippe notwithstanding they could not keepe him long aliue but for sorrow and thought as they say he died for hunger Thus you see I haue plainely shewed that people dwelling in some regions though faring hardly and poorely nourished yet notwithstanding are men both of good complexions of personable and heroical nay Giant-like statures and long liued And this may seeme to bee a little beside though not altogether out of the way Trinidada Tabacco hath a thicke tough and fibrous roote from which immediatly rise vp long broad leaues and smooth of a greenish colour among which riseth vp a stalke diuiding it selfe at the ground into diuers branches whereon are set confusedly the like leaues but lesser at the top of the stalkes stand vp long necked hollow flowres of a pale purple tending to a blushe colour after which succeed the coddes or seed vessels including many small seeds like vnto the seede of marierome The whole plant perisheth at the first approach of winter in hot countreys it is sowen all times of the yeare but when it first sprouteth vp it must be defended and preserued from cold and planted neere vnto a wall for the beautifying thereof for in such hot Regions as Spaine

most part vpon filthy and loathsome poysonous Spiders as also of grashoppers pissemires lyzards and night-bats and an ougly toade was solde for sixe crownes in a time that al such meats were scarse amongst them which they boyle roste bake and dresse with diuers kinds of sawces Albertus Magnus mentioneth a maid who accustomed her stomacke to liue onely vpon spiders I should iudge that Tabacco were good for these kinde of people But yet this seemeth more strange that some of these people haue been found among these nations to whome our vsuall flesh and other meats were mortall and venemous Great is the force of custome Hunts-men will watch all night in the snow and endure to be scortched on the hils Fencers brused with sand-bagges or cudgels and doe not so much as groane Aristotle speaketh of one Andron the Argine that he would trauel all ouer the scorching sands of Lybia without drinking which is impossible for any other to doe In like maner may we say of our Tabacco for as vse is the most effectuall master of all things so we see that Tabacco breedeth such passions in some as though they had receiued some strong poyson yet others that are poisoned do find it to be a good preseruatiue against poison In som it causeth fainting swouning with another vtter deiection of the strength with others againe it worketh a contrarie effect I may say it is like wine For many other ouer-shoot thēselues with fuming wines yet the liquor may be all one and yet not worke the same effect in all for some sigh others smile some are dum and silent others attentiue and full of words some embrace others fight some sleep others sing according to the diuers humors of their bodies and instincts of nature So the fuming vapor of tabacco will cause some to be drunke to haue a reeling giddinesse in their heads others again on the contrary say that it expelleth drunkennesse all swimmings in the brain In some tabacco causeth vomiting in others again that I haue known it performeth the contrary effect by strengthening the stomacke staying vomiting causing a good appetite Some if they take Tabacco much are transported with rage and choler so that you shall see heare inflammation fiery rednes of the face vnwonted othes chasing vnquietnesse and rash precipitation Ora tument ira nigrescunt sangainevena Lumina Gorgonco aeuiùs igne micant In English thus The face through anger swels the veines grow blacke with blood The eyes more fiercely shine than Gorgons fierie mood Yea in some great Tabacconists you shall see them staringly wilde their face troubled their voyce frightfull and distempered They foame at the mouth they startle and quake rage and ruffle and wordes escape them that they afterwards repent But in others againe it causeth a pleasant humour and cleane contrarie vsages humours and passions Tabacconists and Tabacco-companie keepers haue in my opinion but slightly harpt vpon this string no more than they haue vpon others of the like or greater consequence so that by their varietie of conceits and instabilitie of their humours and opinions they do as it were lead vs closely by the hand to this resolution of their irresolution Some there are also who to speak like a Chymist doe destill oyle of Tabacco per descensum which oyle these authors agreeing with the Paracelsians preferre before all other applications eithers of leaues ioyce or powder because the quintessences quintessence is no other thing but a qualitie wherof we cannot with our reason find out the cause and extractions drawne out of the simples are the subtile spirit and haue the purest vertue and facultie of the substance from the which they are drawne This oyle is much commended against the tooth-ache the coughs and the rawnesse or coldnesse of the stomack and the disease called the Mare Many of the Africans are tormented with the tooth-ache which as some thinke they are the more subiect vnto because immediatly after hot pottage they drinke colde water as Iohn Leo in his first booke saith In Africa likewise those which are of a sanguine complexion are greatly troubled with the cough because that in the Spring time they sit too much vpon the ground And vpon Fridaies I had no small sport and recreation saith the same Iohannes Leo to goe and see them For vpon this day the people flocke to Church in great numbers to heare their Mahumetan sermons Now if any one in the sermon fals a coughing or a neezing all the whole multitude will doe the same for companie and so they make such a noise that they neuer leaue till the sermon be quite done so that a man shall reape but little knowedge at any of their sermons I should thinke it good ●that these kinde of people would take either the fume powder or destilled oyle of Tabacco for their vntimely and vnreasonable coughing and neezing and since they are so much subiect to the tooth-ache as I saide before there is no man but will deeme it farre better for them than for vs who are vexed with none of these maladies and yet take it excessiuely The powder of Tabacco is an excellent dentifrice or cleanser of fowle and rustie teeth making them to looke verie white by scowring away all that sordes clammie stinking matter that sticketh vnto them There be nations who indeuour to make their teeth as blacke as jeate and scorne to haue them white and in other places they die them redde and these sorts of people neede not any Tabacco for this intent For stinking and rotten gums in the disease called the scorbie and in sore mouthes there is nothing better than Nicotiana being taken in a gargarisme which is published by Iulius Palmarius and it is also set forth not many years since by Maister Banister in a booke which he calleth his Antidotarie Chirurgicall Rec. Hordei integri p. ij Sanae sanctae Indorum Morsus gallinae Eupatorij Plantaginis Rosarum rubrarum ana m. j. Boyle all these together in aquae lib. iiij till the one part be consumed then adde thereto Mellis rosacei Serapij rosarum siccarum ana ℥ iij. Aluminis vsti Calchanti vsti ana ℥ ss Boyle all these with a walme or two and so let it coole and then keepe it to your vse Because I haue made mention of a strange disease called in English the Mare of the Grecians Ephialtes and of the Latines Incubus which as I said the extracted oyle of Tabacco cureth I will declare briefely what is meant thereby Ephialtes then or the Mare so called of Physicians is a disease of the stomack concerning which read Paulus Aegineta lib. 3. cap. 16. Many which are taken with this disease imagine that a man of monstrous stature sitteth on them which with his hand violently stoppeth their mouth that they can by no meanes crie out and they striue with their arms and hands to driue him away but all in vaine Some ledde with