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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03952	Nepenthes, or The vertues of tabacco by William Barclay Mr. of Art, and Doctor of Physicke	Barclay, William, 1570?-1630?	1614 (1614)	STC 1406; ESTC S104494	9,405	32

in Normandie betweene Rowen and New-hauen This fellow was a merrie man but at euery house he must haue a Cole to kindle his Tabacco the Frenchmen wondered and I laughed at his intemperancie But there is one William Anslop an honest man dwelling in Bishops-gate street hard within the gate that selleth the best Tabacco in England and vseth it most discreetly Because the matter of smoake taking is controuerted and disputed I will first decide this question of smoake before I enter to shewe the commoditie which proceedeth of it Suffumigation or receauing of smoake is not a newe inuented remedie it is an old and well approoued forme of medicine in many diseases Hippocrates in his booke of the diseases of women teacheth many kindes of smoake which women should receaue and specially of many vnsauourie and stinking things at the nose and the mouth to represse and thrust back the mother in the suffocation a fearefull and dangerous disease The most expert Physitians in our dayes admit with one consent the smoake of tussilago to be receiued at the mouth by those which are ptisicke or asthmaticke or haue the cough of cold Gordon a learned olde Physitian the Vade mecum of practitians ordaineth Trochisques of Ambergreis Muske and other Ingredients to be vsed after the forme as we take the smoake of Tabacco for the Epilepsie In the booke called Aphorismi tonsorum or Schola Salerni there is a suffumigation made of Leek seeds and white Insquiā seeds for the tooth ache to be receiued at the mouth Leonardo Fioravanti an Italian practitian commendeth for deafenesse a suffumigation made with cinaber frankincense and myrrhe to bee taken at the mouth Consider now good Lector and repeat againe Shall Hippocrates permit the smoake of stinking feathers and of old rotten shooes from a Coablers dunghill shall other Physitians permit the smoke of tussilago shal Gordon prescribe the aromatical smoke of musk ambre shal Schola Salerni permit Insquiam to bee incensed in the mouth which is a venemous plant shall FIORAVANTI command the smoke of cinabre which is a present poyson to infect the braine and shall wee onely banish the poore Tabacco which hath more vertue for all these foresaide Diseases then each of the forenamed things hath for their seuerall sores If the mother vexe and torment a woman the smoake of Tabacco either aboue or vnder shal ease her more then feathers or lether If thou be ptisicke if thou be asthmaticke if thou be vrged to cogh through defluxion the smoake of Tabacco is better then tussilago if the rage of toothache excarnificate the goomes Tabacco is better then Insquiam if there be sounding in the eares it is fitter thē cinabre I ad further that amongst so many thousands which vse abuse Tabacco at al occasions without obseruation of any physicall precept there are very sew found that can ascribe their death to Tabacco so that if Tabacco were vsed physically and with discretion there were no medicament in the worlde comparable to it Now to returne from whence I did digresse to shew the commodities of Tabacco I lay here as a ground to build vpon that by reason of the situation of mans head which is aboue al the other members of the body the most parte of diseases flow from the head as from a fountain so that Tabacco going immediatly to the brain it not only augmenteth and refresheth the animall spirites but drieth the sourse of innumerable diseases and fortifieth the braine So that there is no man but may receiue commoditie by the vse of Tabacco except only those which haue their braine dry hot which is a temperament vnnaturall to the braine yea and a dangerous disease and the next degree to reauing to furie to madnesse I know that euery one will be curious to aske me how he shall know a hote dry braine GALEN in his book which he calleth ars parva declareth at large the signes of all intemperies yet to satisfie the mindes o● curious Lectors it is euident that his braine 〈◊〉 hot dry who sleepeth very litle or nothing who reaueth waking and formeth monstruous dreames sleeping and whose nose distilleth nothing It were a world of worke to specifie in particular all the diseases and symptomes that are helped or preuented by Tabacco but I will only set downe those which I know either by mine own experience or by the faithfull reporte of learned Physicians or of credible patients I will begin at the Epilepsie which is called by HIPPOCRATES morbus sacer the falling sicknes and this plant is called by some nations herba sacra then after legittime preparation such diet as a skilful Physician shal prescribe let the patient be purged with the infusion of Tabacco in hidromel in the strained liquor of this infusion dissolue foure graines of the salt made of Tabacco and giue it to the patient to drinke herafter hauing a cauter in his neck he shal take euery day the smoke of a pipe of fine Tabacco fasting in the morning once euery third day hee shall hold in his mouth the apophlegmatisme of Tabacco in substance Now because this disease hath some occult venome and maligne qualitie the olde Physicians by long experience haue found out some things which helpe this disease by an indeclarable vertue and for this cause he shall take the smoake of this confected Tabacco euery day Take ambregreese the seede of peonie and stirax of every one halfe an ounce of muske twentie graines of lignum aloes the weight of three crownes of magisterium cranii humani an ounce of the sowing thereof halfe an ounce of fine Tabacco as much as of them all make of all these a grosse powder and take the smoake of it euery morning and thus the epilepticke shall attaine to his health rather then by the galls of dogs superstitious characters vsed by a number of ignorant deboshed Vagabondes and Montebanckes The Hydropisie is one of the ordinarie customers that commeth to craue health at the shop of Tabacco and specially if it bee holden in the patients mouth in substance or if hee take now and then of the salt thereof and euery day a pipe or two The Arthritis or gowt grauell are preuented prettily because the antecedent cause is taken away it preserueth from the toothach it cureth the migraim the colicke the cogh the cold It stayeth growing fatte it is the antidote of Hypochondriacke melancholie it prepareth the stomacke for meat it maketh a clear voice it maketh a sweet breath it cleareth the sight it opneth the eares it putteth away the punaise openeth the passage of the nose it is the nourse of the lights it comforteth nerues and taken in sirupe there is no obstruction that can abide it it is present reliefe against the most part of poysons And in few words it is the princesse of physical plants To conclude this discourse I must excuse here my plainnesse and simplicitie with this caveat to the