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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01444	The triall of tabacco Wherein, his worth is most worthily expressed: as, in the name, nature, and qualitie of the sayd hearb; his speciall vse in all physicke, with the true and right vse of taking it, aswell for the seasons, and times, as also the complexions, dispositions, and constitutions, of such bodies, & persons, as are fittest: and to whom it is most profitable to take it. By E.G. Gent. and practicioner in physicke.	Gardiner, Edmund.	1610 (1610)	STC 11564; ESTC S105693	61,756	124

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 though 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 There be 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 ●…ritaine 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 immediately 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 Naples and Africke it continueth green a whole yeare together as Buglossum semper virens Telephi●…m minus semper virens Rosemarie and the Bay-tree with vs in England doe It was first brought into Europe out of the prouinces of America which of some though I know no reason for it is called the West Indies in wich is the prouince or countrey of Peru but being now planted in the gardens of Europe it prospereth very well and cometh from seed in one yere to beare both floures seed The which I take to be the better for the cōstitution of our bodies then that which is brought from India and that growing in the Indies better for the people of the same countrey notwithstanding it is not so thought nor receiued of our tabackians for according to the English prouerbe Farre fetcht and deere bought is good for Ladies Tabacco must be sowen in the most fruitfull grounds that may be found and carelesly cast abroad in the sowing without raking it into the ground or any such paine or industrie taken as is requisite in the sowing of other seedes as I my selfe haue found by proofe who haue experimented euery way to cause it quickly to grow for I haue committed some to the earth in the end of March some in Aprill and some in the beginning of May because I durst not hazard all my seede at one time least some vnkindly blast should happen in the sowing which might be a great enemie thereunto It is hot and drie that in the second degree as Monardus thinketh and it is withall of power to discusse or resolue and to cleanse away filthy humours hauing also a a certaine small adstriction and a stupefying or benumming qualitie and purgeth by the stoole And Monardus thinketh that it hath a certaine power to resist poyson And to prooue it to be of hot qualitie and temperature the byting qualitie of the leaues doth shew which is easily pereiued by taste Also the greene leaues layed vpon vlcers draw out filth and corrupt matter which a cold simple would neuer doe The leaues likewise being chawed draw forth fleagm water as doth also the fume takē when the leaues are dried which things declare that this is not a little hot For what things soeuer being chewed or held in the mouth bring forth fleagm water the same be al accounted hot as the root of pellitory of Spain Saxifrage master-wort betony and hyssop with other things of like power Moreouer the benumming qualitie hereof is not hard to be perceiued for vpon the taking of the fume at the mouth there followeth an infirmitie like vnto drunkennes many times sleep as after the taking of Opium which also sheweth in the taste a byting qualitie therefore is not without heat which when it is chewed and inwardly taken it doth forth with shew causing a certaine

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 iuyce 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 yeares since by Maister ●…anister in a booke which he calleth his Antidotarie Chirurgicall Rec. Hordei integri p. ij Sanae sanct a Indorum Morsus gallinae Eupatorij Plantaginis Rosarum rabrarum 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 ●…sti 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. ●…6 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 vaine fantasie thinke him who oppresseth them to creepe vp by little and little on the bed as it were to deceiue them and anone to runne downe againe They seeme also to themselues to heare him This disease of the night-Mare is also called by another name Puigalion or Puigamon It commeth by meanes of certaine grosse and thicke vapours which doe partly intercept and hinder the free passage of the spirits animall by which meane difficultie of speaking and breathing doe proceede with a perturbation of the sense and motion of the whole bodie Now this dreadfull griefe which some being much deceiued thinking that it must onely proceede of witchcraft is chiefely remedied with the extracted oile of Tabacco a fewe drops taken in sacke or maluesie after the stomacke bee first accordingly by the rules of art expurged from those superfluous humours which are the true cause of the disease The oyle of Tabacco for a colde and moist stomacke is farre better than oyle of pepper oyle of Anniseeds the extracted oyles of Fennell Commin Masticke Cloaues or Calamint and if an Electuarie were made for this disease called the Mare I suppose this to be excellent An Electuarie for an ouer-cold and moist stomacke Rec. Puluer is aromat ros maioris ex descriptione Gabrielis ʒij Puluer is electuar diacalaminthes ʒj Diatrion piperij ℈ ij Conseruae anthos rosarum Damascenarum ana ℥ ss Sacchari optimi vnc j. ss Serapij de mentha quod sufficit vt fiat elect liquidum Adde Olei tabaci chymici guttas aliquot Dosis vnc ss per horam vnam aut alteram ante pastum I haue discoursed sufficiently as I iudge of the vertues of Tabacco for inward diseases of mans bodie now will I proceede to his effects in curing those that happen outwardly and first there is prescribed vnto vs this Vnguent Rec. Of the choysest and most substantiall leaues of Tabacco lib. j. Beat them in a mortar of marble and after that take of Axungia porcina lib. ss Let it be refined and clarified and without falt so this being melted adde to it the Tabacco and set it ouer a soft fire to seeth deliberately and leasurely vntill such time as you finde the waterish humiditie of the Tabacco to be vapoured away and that the mingled substances retaine the force of a perfect Vnguent Reserue this for a singular and medicinable good Vnguent for sores vlcers carbuncles tetters and likewise to dissolue tumours There is also another in vse which is this that followeth Rec. Terebinthinae Resinae Cerae nouae ana vnc iij. Melt them together and then adde to them of Tabacco prepared as before lib. j. mixe them together and after with a slow fire set them to incorporat seething together fiue or sixe houres vntill the waterish humour of the Tabacco be cleane euapourated After this is done straine it