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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04242	A counterblaste to tobacco	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1604 (1604)	STC 14363; ESTC S109101	11,427	26

imitate them in walking naked as they doe in preferring glasses feathers and such toyes to golde and precious stones as they do yea why do we not denie God and adore the Deuill as they doe Now to the corrupted basenesse of the first vse of this Tobacco doeth very well agree the foolish and groundlesse first entry thereof into this Kingdome It is not so long since the first entry of this abuse amongst vs here as this present age cannot yet very well remember both the first Author and the forme of the first introduction of it amongst vs. It was neither brought in by King great Conquerour nor learned Doctor of Phisicke With the report of a great discouery for a Conquest some two or three Sauage mē were brought in together with this Sauage custome But the pitie is the poore wilde barbarous men died but that vile barbarous custome is yet aliue yea in fresh vigor so as it seemes a miracle to me how a custome springing from so vile a ground and brought in by a father so generally hated should be welcomed vpon so slender a warrant For if they that first put it in practise heere had remembred for what respect it was vsed by them from whence it came I am sure they would haue bene loath to haue taken so farre the imputation of that disease vpon them as they did by vsing the cure thereof For Sanis non est opus medico and counterpoisons are neuer vsed but where poyson is thought to precede But since it is true that diuers customes slightly grounded and with no better warrant entred in a Commonwealth may yet in the vse of them thereafter prooue both necessary and profitable it is therefore next to be examined if there be not a full Sympathie and true Proportion betweene the base ground and foolish entrie and the loathsome and hurtfull vse of this stinking Antidote I am now therefore heartily to pray you to consider first vpon what false and erroneous grounds you haue first built the generall good liking thereof and next what sinnes towards God and foolish vanities before the world you commit in the detestable vse of it As for these deceitfull grounds that haue specially mooued you to take a good and great conceit thereof I shall content my selfe to examine here onely foure of the principals of them two founded vpon the Theoricke of a deceiueable apparance of Reason and two of them vpon the mistaken Practicke of generall Experience First it is thought by you a sure Aphorisme in the Physickes That the braines of all men beeing naturally colde and wet all dry and hote things should be good for them of which nature this stinking suffumigation is and therefore of good vse to them Of this Argument both the Proposition and Assumption are false and so the Conclusion cannot but be voyd of it selfe For as to the Proposition That because the braines are colde and moist therefore things that are hote and drie are best for them it is an inept consequence For man beeing compounded of the foure Complexions whose fathers are the foure Elements although there be a mixture of them all in all the parts of his body yet must the diuers parts of our Microcosme or little world within our selues be diuersly more inclined some to one some to another complexion according to the diuersitie of their vses that of these discords a perfect harmonie may bee made vp for the maintenance of the whole body The application then of a thing of a contrary nature to any of these parts is to interrupt them of their due function and by consequence hurtfull to the health of the whole body As if a man because the Liuer is hote as the fountaine of blood and as it were and ouen to the stomacke would therfore apply and weare close vpon his Liuer and stomacke a cake of lead he might within a very short time I hope be susteined very good cheape at an Ordinarie beside the cleering of his conscience from that deadly sinne of gluttonie And as if because the Heart is full of vitall spirits and in perpetuall motion a man would therefore lay a heauy pound stone on his breast for staying and holding downe that wanton palpitation I doubt not but his breast would bee more bruised with the weight thereof then the heart would be comforted with such a disagreeable contrarious cure And euen so is it with the Braines For if a man because the Braines are cold and humide would therefore vse inwardly by smells or outwardly by application things of hot and drie qualite all the gaine that he could make thereof would onely be to put himselfe in a great forwardnesse for running mad by ouerwatching himselfe the coldnesse and moistnesse of our braine beeing the onely ordinarie meanes that procure our sleepe and rest Indeed I doe not denie but when it falls out that any of these or any part of our bodie growes to be distempered and to tend to an extremitie beyond the compasse of Natures temperate mixture that in that case cures of contrary qualities to the intemperate inclination of that part being wisely prepared and discreetely ministred may be both necessarie and helpefull for strengthning and assisting Nature in the expulsion of her enemies for this is the true definition of all profitable Physicke But first these Cures ought not to bee vsed but where there is neede of them the contrarie whereof is daily practised in this generall vse of Tobacco by all sorts and complexions of people And next I deny the Minor of this argument as I have already said in regard that this Tobacco is not simply of a dry hot qualitie but rather hath a certaine venemous facultie ioyned with the heate thereof which makes it haue an Antipathie against nature as by the hatefull smell thereof doeth well appeare For the Nose being the proper Organ and conuoy of the sense of smelling to the braines which are the onely fountaine of that sense doeth euer serue vs for an infallible witnesse whether that Odour which we smell be healthfull or hurtfull to the braine except when it fals out that the sense it selfe is corrupted and abused through some infirmitie and distemper in the braine And that the suffumigation thereof cannot haue a drying qualitie it needes to further probation then that it is a smoake all smoake and vapour being of it selfe humide as drawing neere to the nature of the ayre and easie to be resolued againe into water whereof there needes no other proofe but the Meteors which being bred of nothing else but of the vapours and exhalations sucked vp by the Sunne out of the earth the Sea and waters yet are the same smoakie vapours turned and transformed into Raynes Snowes Deawes hoare Frostes and such like waterie Meteors as by the contrarie the raynie cloudes are often transformed and euaporated in blustering winds The second Argument grounded on a show of reason is That this filthie smoake as well through the