that it is manifest that it taketh away great part of our nurrishment by the extreame euacuation it procureth it is also by meanes of his great heat drynesse very vnapt to breed any good nurishment in vs To this may bee added his vnpleasaunt and vngratefull smell insomuch that the tasters thereof beare away with them in their bodyes and breath the loathsome Tabacco sent long time after So that it is very euident and manifest that as well in respect of his substance ouer hot dry as also of his vnpleasing stinking sent it is neither fit to nurish the humerall solide parts nor yet apt to refresh comfort the spirits of man be they naturall in the Liuer vitall in the hart or sensible or animall in the braine and sinewes For as touching the humours in vs they are aptest nourished by such things as are either humorall and moâ—st or else may easely bee turned and conuerted into a liquid and thin substance And as for the hard and solede parts of the body as bones sinewes vaines artires they cannot receiue any nutriment of any thing before it bee first turned into some moist and liquid substance also apt to be â—uked drunck into the former parts afterward by the force of natures worke assimulated hardened transformed into the very nature substance of the parts by it nurished But as for the spirits it hath ben a question much disputed on amongst the Philosophers as Aristotle Plato and others of old time their expositers since whether smels or odours may any wayes nourish the same And if I be not deceiued they all agree in this that mens spirits doe feele great comfort and refreshing by such sweet and pleasant sauours as are founded subiected in some moyst vnctuous matter But this priuiledge cannot in any respect bee graunted to Tabacco both for that hir sauour is very vnsauorie stincking also because it is placed founded in a very dry and withered substance Insomuch as that the tâ—sters and drinckers thereoâ— thincke it not fit to bee taken vntill it bee thoroughly parched and dryed that thereby it might the better receiue the force of the fire the sooner be kindled therwith Now that sweet and pleasant sauours delightfull fumes doe greatly refresh our spirits and recreate the sences it is euidently perceiued by our vsuall practise When to the feeble and languishing persons and to such as faint or â—ound we presently offer them the sent of Rosewater mixed with a little vineger that it might the more speedely peiâ—ce and the sicke person feeleth great comfort thereby But on the contrary stincking filthie smels are so far from reâ—â—eâ—hing vs as that they vtterly extinguish quell our spirits in vs and to some procure hastie and vntimely deaths or at the least some vncurable maladies and loathsome diseases 〈…〉 French Châ—rurgion not vnlearned in his profession most expert reporteth of himselfe in the 12. Châ—pter of his treatise of the plague that visiting a certaine pacient of his that had by meanes of the plague a botch in his â—â—ancke or groyne and other blâ—â—es elsewhere in his body Whilst rashly hee vnfolded the bed clothes the better to take view of the sores hee was sodainely stroke into a sound with the stâ—â—câ—e loathsome breath that steymed from these vlcers perced vp to his braine through his nosthrils in such sort as that he hardly recouered his life Afterward being recalled to his â—ence feeling againe hee thought the house wherled round had fallen sodenly downe againe if happely he had not taken better holde of the bed post and stayed himselfe How noysome and irkesome a thing vnpleasant and stincking sauours be to the braynes of men may easely bee conâ—ectured by the vsuall custome of most men who neuer passe by any vnsauory place but they streight wayes stop their noses mouthes with their hands or other meanes least that the ill vapor or stench therof should any waies offend or loath their braine But to come to our Tabacco if any man doubt of his ill sauour bad sent I refer him to the report of those who haue had longest tryall therof No doubt except they be altogether shamelesse they will truely informe him therof I remember that being called once to the cure of an honorable Earle now departed this life amongst other learned and expert Phisitions there hapned one to be called who as in times past he was Chimicall so in the vntimely vse of this plant he seemed to bee ouer fantasticall It fortuned the very morning that he came vnto his Honors presence he had according to his accustomed wont taken his mornings draft of Tabacco with the fume wherof he so perfumed his Lordships bedchamber in such sort as that the Earle being meruaylous anoyed therwith told me after the departure of the former Phisition that from thence foorth hee had rather lose the benefit of that mans counsell in Phisicke then to indure such a horrible a fume againe This good D. being demaunded of other Phisitions wherof two were hir Maiesties theÌ„ present what reason he had for this his custome answered that he would not but for 100 pounds he had vsed this feume at first for thereby he found great ease for his cold reumatick stomacke But now said he I would that I could so easely leaue it condicionallie I had giuen 300 pounds more for I finde my selfe hart sick that day till I haue tasted thereof No doubt the long and dailie vse of drincking Tabacco had accustomed his stomack to draw to it watrish and rewmetick matter in great aboundance the quantitie wherof vrged nature to seeke meanes for the expelling the same againe which could by no other thing be more fitly performed then by Tabacco it selfe For as it hath a powre faculty to draw to the stomacke as other strong purges haue so likewise hath it a property and vertue to expell forth the same no otherwise then all other purges haue But heerein it differeth from other purges that it seemeth to be of a far more thin subtile nature then other purges bee by meanes wherof nature is so pricked and forced oftentimes in such violent sort as that it causeth violent euacuation as well by stoole vomits and swetes as also by saliuacion coughing spittings which thing other purges vsually doe not albeit they be very forceable violent and strong So that heereof is gathered the fourth reason beefore aleadged that Tabacco is not familiarly to be vsed beecause it is a vehement and violent purge The third Reason I Neede not stand long on this point to proue Tabacco to bee a strong and violent purge for that in daily practise common experience the same is most euideÌ„t and manifest to most men And to doubt of that which of it selfe is perspicuous were grose stupiditie and to denie that which is to our
the disease or temperament of the person to whom they offer it What thing can be more absurd and phantasticall then to minister one the selfe same remedy to contrary repugnant affects hot cold dry and moist emptie and repleat acute and cronicall which for the more part haue deeper rootes and are of longer continuance then can sodenly be blowne away with a puffe of a smokie Tabacco pipe yea some of them can hardly be remoued by the great paynes care cunning of the expert and learned in Phisicke for Nonest in medico semper releuetur vt aeger Interdum docta plus valet arte malum And yet these Tabacco sauâ—rits hold no disease so incurable but that in some measure it receiueth either cure or ease by this Tabacco But I assure you many diseases being of themselues and their owne nature light and of easie cure may by the vntimely vse of this same become altogether incurable such are the first step or degree to an Heticke distemper of heat in the Liuer oppilations of the Lungs and such like And truely if nothing else should make one out of fancie with the vse of Tabacco it might be suffiâ—ient for an equall iudge to thinck with himself how vnnaturall a thing it is to peruert the naturall vse offices of the parts of the bodie for by the force of Tabacco the mouth throte and stomacke appointed by nature for the receipt of food nourishment for the whole body are made emunctuary clensing places and sincks supplying heerein the office of the most abiect and basest part for the filth and superfluous excrements of the whole body The second Reason THe second reason against the ordinarie vse of Tabacco is taken from the excesse of his two manifest qualities of heat and dri'th which Monardus and others also haue affirmed to come neere to the third degree of excesse in either qualitie So that if men of hot and dry constitution should often vse the feume of Tabacco no doubt they should increase much their distemper for like added to his like increaseth the resemblance similitude the more according to that Axiome in Philosophie Omnes unile additum simili reddia ipsum magis simile Whervpon Aristotle in his 8. booke and 29. Chap. De animalibus inferreth that a Snake if he eate of a Scorpion waxeth farre more venemous then he was before But I neede not to stand long vpon this point seeing that daily practise experience teachth vs that heat increaseth heat things cold do increase in vs a greaer cold the like may bee said of the other qualities of dri'th and moisture so that in natural reason and common sence it seemeth true that the extreame violent dri'th heat of Tabacco maketh it far vnfit vnwholsome for thin cholericke bodies And so is it also for youth and such as grow for Qui crescunt plurimum habent innaticaloris this naturall heat in youth by the immoderate vse of this fierie fume would soone turne vnto a heat vnnaturall and thereby be occasion of infinite maladies But I hold it a thing very dangerous not onely for the yonger sort but also for all other ages and constitutions whatsoeuer to bee ouer bold with Tabacco For it doth not onely consume and dissipate naturall heat in them by increasing of the vnnaturall but it wasteth also drieth vp radicall moisture the principall subiect of natiue heat so that heereof insueth in the bodie great store of crud vndigested humours the effects of immoderate heat in vs. For it is not fierie nor immoderate heat in vs but rather a milde vnctuous warmth consisting in a temtperate moderate moisture that performeth as well concoction as all other naturall actions in vs. Which thing is very apparant conspicuous in such as are afflicted with hot burning Feuers In whom as the fierie heat appeareth most so crude and vndigested humours doe abound more then in such as are cleare of such extremitie of heates Neither doe their humors at any time come to perfect digestion in them vntill the rigor and violence of that fierie heate be in some sort by cooling diet and medicine repressed Much lesse therefore are the patrons of Tabacco to bee beeleeued in this that hot and burning Agues â—ising of corruption and putrefaction of choler blood in the veines or about the principall parts of mans bodie may bee cured with an inâ—usion of Tabacco lease in white Wine steeped all night For as it was euer an aphorisme maxime in Phisicke that as like is maintayned by his like So was it also of like certaintie in the same art that Contrâ—ria a contrarijs currantur Contraries are cured by their contraries I meane contrary rather to the disease or to the cause of the disease But what contrarietie I pray you can be found betweene Tabacco and a Feuer tercian or burning Ague When as they maniâ—estly agree in their principall qualities of heate and dri'th both equally falling in excesse of either of them The like may be said of other effects proceeding of the same of like causes But to let the diseased passe and to come to those which are of perfect health I take it very dangerous and hurtfull for them often to vse this 〈…〉 for therby great part of that humour is dissipaâ—â—d wasted spent cast foorth of the body by often 〈◊〉 seeges swets and continnall spittings and coughings which in processe of time would turne to good blood and holsome nurrishment for the bodie For Crude and watrish humors which for the most part are all those which by this medicine are are oftentimes very necessary for many vses in the body As for pliant motion of the loints and principally for nurrishment of the flegmaticke and colder parts And it is a receiued opinion amongst the best Phisitions that nature being a prouident carefull nurce of mankinde hath purposely left this Crudie humour in our bodyes to the intent that we might euer haue some thing in store to nourish vs if happely we should at any time want other foode But that no small part of our nurishment is drawne away by the vntimely vse of this Tabacco may manifestly appeare by those men who before the vse thereof were grose and foggy but after they haue acquainted themselues with this kinde of practise they became very leane and sâ—lender So that no doubt if they desist not in time from farther vse therof ther is no small suspition least that they shall therby fall into Consumptions to that of the most dangerous sorts called of the Phisition Marasmos proceding of want of substanciall nurrishment dissipation of naturall heat and decay of spirits in the body And heerein I cannot but wonder much at the ouer sight of some who otherwise being learned and wise yet in this seeme very Paradoxicall when as they contend to proue Tabacco to be a great nurrisher For beesides
mustie bottle doth euer sauour of a mustie taste Neither am I any waies ignorant that Aristotle in his Problems holdeth that melancholy doth help and profit much to the sharpening quickning of the wit and vnderstanding and that melancholy persons are deemed of him the most wisest But this kinde of melancholy which Aristotle talketh of is altogether naturall and no way engendreth of the Tabacco smoake For it is the sediment and groundes of the pure perfect blood in colour like golde or somewhat inclining to purple litle in quantitie and somewhat shining The spirits which issue from this kinde of melancholy are verie light fine and subtile not much vnlike to the spirits of wine well distilled and artificially rectified which is by art and force of the fire drawne out of the feces or grounds of pure wine And the spirits rising from this drie melancholy humor are the thinner and the more subtile by reason of the closenesse straightnesse of the pores of the same matter and they are the more firme constant in their action by meanes that they issue and proceed from an humor more compacted and close vnited The subtilitie therefore and stabilitie of these spirites rising from such a naturall melancholy doeth much further the sharpning of the wit and vnderstanding of man But the like cannot be expected of the spirites rising of that kinde of melancholy which is engendred by the abuse of Tabacco For this sort of melancholy humor is neither bright shining like to molten gold nor yet the grounds of pure and perfect blood but rather an earthly and adust matter not much vnlike stoncole or scorched earth So that the spirites issuing from it must needs be of a diuers and farre contrarie qualitie and nature Last of all melancholy being of nature cold and drie had in reason need of some thin and liquid humor to be mixed therewith to temper his extreame siccetie and drythe which is the qualitie of most offence and annoyance in it For as phlegme offendeth most in cold so doth melancholy falt most in drynesse Tabacco therefore ought in no respect to be familiarly vsed of the melancholy person because it is excessiue drie both in his manifest qualitie and likewise by accidentall meanes of his immoderate purging and euacuation by meanes whereof great part of that liquid and moyst matter is purged out of the body that should retaine and keepe it in perfect state and temper And for that Tabacco is confessed to be hotte almost in the third degree of excesse therfore his drithe and siccetie is thereby made the more vehement and vntollerable So that it is apparant that vnnaturall melancholy whether it be made of adustian of bloud choller or phlegmy or else of the sediment of them scorched and as it were in cinerated hath no small encrease by the vntimely vse of this phantasticall deuice of Tabacco smoake leauing in our bodies a fierie impression and drie distemper not easily remedied And therefore in my opinion all melancholy persons of what state or condition soeuer they bee of and especially Students and Schollers ought to bee very well aduised in the vse of so pernitious and dangerous a thing least that in them naturall melancholy be conuerted into vnnaturall and this also either into a corrisiue and adust humour apt to inflame the braine or else into a matter so hard and drie as that it be altogether hurtful and offensiue to the vnctuous and radicall moisture of the life of man and thereby occasion a hastie and vntimely death For no longer can life continue then naturall heate bee refreshed with an ayrie and moderate moisture included in the radicall humour and appointed by nature for the reliefe and sustentation of the same FINIS Galen Com. apâ—o Hip. 1. Lib. 1. Experimentâ— fallaâ— Hippo. apho 1. lib. Contrariâ— currantur contrâ—â—â—js Apho 79. li. 5 Apho. 6. lib. 1 Apho 3. lib. 1 Ouid Baptista Porta lib. 8. Cap. 11. Arist. 〈◊〉 Arist. lib 8. Cap 29. De animal Tabacco depriueth the bâ—dy of nourishment Sweet smels 〈◊〉 the spirits 〈…〉 〈…〉 Tabacco vngratefull in sent D. T. Tabacco a violent purge D. B. Hip. lib 2. Apho. 36. Hip. lib. 2. Apho 37. Hip. Apho. 1â— lib. Hip. Apho. 6. lib 1. GaleÌ„ lib. â— de Temp. cap. 2. Lib. â— De tempora cap. ◠〈…〉 Io. Mesnes cap. de 〈◊〉 Tabacco in his nature poison Tabacco a double poison Tabacco like the poyson of a Scorpion Dâ—oscord lib. â— cap. 10. Custome is of great force Euery Agent requireth time conuenient to worke his effect If the Agent lack due quaÌ„titie he losâ—th his â—orce Poisons sometime may bee taken without oâ—fence Fire correcteth poison Seneca lib. 2. nat quest cap. 31. Hieronimus Mercurialis ll 1. de veneniâ— Obiection Answere Galen lib. 3. de simpl med cap. 18. Plyn Aul. Gel. Saluius Italicus Virgil. Aeneid 7. Galen Custome is an other nature Sextus Empericus Galen lib. 2. deâ—empera cap. 3. Ficinuâ— lib. 1. cap. 6. de sâ—â—it â—uend