must be well purged and this is often proved good Tobacco hath notable force to stay blood running forth immoderately from a Wound or from the Nostrils or from any hurt only applying the juyce with with Lint to the Wounds â—ut the juyce must be snâ—ffed up into the Nostrils or the Powder must be drawn into the Nose by a Cane or Tunnell To cleanse and heal foul Ulcers of the French-Pox and in dainty people especially if the part that is Ulcerated be of exquisite feeling the decoction of Tobacco in a Gargarism is very effectuall or mingled with other things Such a remedy you find in the small Book of Iulius Palmarius concerning contagious Diseases Take two pugils of whole Barley Agrimony Tobacco Plantane Chick-Weed Red Roses of each one Handfull boyl all in foure Pounds of water to three Pounds and straine it thâ—n mingle with it Honey of Roses and Syrup of dried Roses of each three Ounces burnt Allum burnt Vitrioll of each half a Dram This Remedy is very abstergent and drying and cures Ulcers The falling off the hair of the head old corrupt Ulcers of the Arms Legs other parts and ready to Gâ—ngreen are by this brought to Cicatrize if they be first washt in white wine or Urine and wiped with a wet Cloth with one or two green Leaves of Tobacco bruised and be made moist with the juyce of it which maâ— also be used alone and bound on with a Swath of Linnen this being continued for some daies makes them perfectly well If green Leaves be wanting strew upon the Leaves the Powder of the dried Herb but the Patient must first be Purged by the Physician and if need be a Vein must be opened and and a good Diet observed Yet let no man be dismayed if he see the Sore grow bigger by degrees for so all faulty flesh is consumed and good flesh will come in the place without Chyrurgery or use of any other Medicament A certain Noble Man who was Father to one of the Embassadours Pages hearing the report of this Plant came to Lisbon he had an eating Ulcer upon his Leg for two whole years when he had for ten or twelve daies used the Plant as the Embassadour directed him he was well cured and returned home A certain young Man had a foule eating Ulcer hard to be cured upon one of his Cheeks and it began to seaze upon the gristle of his nose He first made triall of this Herb without the Embassadours knowledge wherefore applying Lint with the juyce of the Leaves â—o the Ulcâ—s he found incredible help by it Which when the Embassadour understood by another of his Pages Kinsman to the other that was in this Case he called the young Man to him and he observing for eight daies the same way of cure rooted a Noli me tangere quite out but in the mean while that he was curing of him he sent him to the chiefest Physician of the King of Portugall that he should set down the order of his cure and he being eight daies after called for by the Embassadour to look upon his sore face he professed openly that the Noli me tangere was quite killed and dead and it was more clearly known by that because the young Man complained not any more of a pain of his Cheek A Woman had a horrible Tetter in her Face you would think Shee Painted and Shee was cured in eight daies by help of Tobacco and departed home giving great thanks to the Embassadour before abundance of People It will not be impertinent to adde one Memorable example which Monaerdus relates in his book of simple Medicaments brought from the new found World A Matron saith he that had the charge of a Knights Daughter of Spain remembring what I had said concerning the Vertues of Tobacco in the audience of many People undertook to cure the Child committed to her Charge whose Head was overrun with a foule Scall and to whom I and others had applied many Remedies in vain with Tobacco which Shee fetched of me nor did Shee loose her Labour For when Shee had rubbed the Scab so sharply with Tobacco Leaves that for pain the Child fainted often away the same day the day following not regarding her crying or pains Shee rubbed the Leaves on again untill such time as the Sâ—als falling of by degrees the Girls was cured yet when Shee saw the Sâ—als fall Shee rubbed her Head something more gently A Captain of Souldiers who had a Sonne miserably afflicted with the Kings Evill was resolved to send him into France because the common opinion is that none but the King of France can cure that Disease this Captain came to the Embassadour who made tryall of Tobaco in this case and in a very few daies he cured the Boy of his Disease The way of cure is this Apply Lint wet in the juyce of Tobacco taken from the bruised Leaves but do it nine or ten times If a man apply the juyce of Tobacco or Lint wet in it or the green Leaves bruised with his hands to any part of the body stung with Nettles he shall presently perceive the pain gone and the part cured It is good to cure Warts if you lay the juyce with Lint upon the Wart making first an open place in it with your Pen-knife untill the Blood come or else Annoynt the place only with Uâ—guent of Tobacco this I know to be true and may be it may do the same to Corns that grow upon the joynts of the Feet So also the juyce of Tobacco applyed to any pestilent Carbuncle is a present Remedy Also used the same way it is good for Venomous Stings Pricks and Bites So it heals the Bitings of Mad Dogs if it be applied presently in a quarter of an Honre after the bite is given It is good also for the Indians called the Carybes for it is a singular Antidote for the venomous weapons of their Enemies For when they go to Warre they carry with them two hoofs of hearts in one of them there is a present Venome which so soon as it Wounds but the skin that it may come at the Blood it brings present death but in the other they carry the juyce of Tobacco and applying this they are freed from Death as experience Witnesseth If they have no green Tobacco they use the dry or beaten into Powder The Carybes Indians in the Province of Savina Were the first that ever made triall of this when in a Battle they were many Wounded and Killed For when as they were wont to cured venomed Wounds with Sublimate for want of that they used the juyce of Tobacco pressed forth of the leaves and this presently took away the pain and made them well tryal hath been often made of this in Spain Moreover the leaves and juyce of Tobacco applyed with lint cures all hurts that befall bruit Beasts and kill the
as before that it be not mingled with the faeces then filtrat it lastly evaporate what is filtrated These are the various waies to make artificial Salt not only of Tobacco but of all Vegetables that are prepared by the fire and the use of them may be wonderfull in curing those that are dainty and such as abhorre all Medicaments putting that Salt in their Broth or Salt-seller to season their meat To this may be referred what the famous Physician and Philosopher of his age Lionaâ—dus Fioravantus hath written in his Physicall Observations I took sath he Tobacco with Seed and Root and I stamped them all the leaves weighed LIV ounces I hid them in Horse dung to ferment thirty daies and that they might not corrupt I put some salt to them and six ounces of aqua vitae then I distilled them in Bâ—lâ—eo Mâ—riae untill all the moisture were drawn from them and that it might keep the better I added so much Oyl of Brimestone as might make it taste sharp I used this composition in many things In all Feavers a spoonfull drank cured them Wounded men if they drank it or annointed their wounds with it they were cured to admiration Oytments are made of Tobacco divers waies though the Herb used by it self is far more effectuall Take the fairest greatest greenest most rosiny leaves of Tobacco freed from all filth and dust diligently that are no waies wet with Rain or Dew one pound bruise them with a Pestle in a Morter of Marble or of Wood half a pound of Hogs-grease prepared that is purged from all its skins and melted in a brazen Vessell to this must be added the juyce of Tobacco and the thick substance bruised Let them boyl together upon a Trevot in a brazen Pot with a very small gentle fire namely live Coles being put under the Trevot or else in Balneo untill you see the watryness of the juyce to be vanished and gone and the unguent brought to a Consistence Or an unguent may be made of the manifold infusion of Tobacco in Oyl of Roses three or four times renewing the leaves in Balneo and when you press it out adding so much of the juyce of the same Herb and wax what may suffice and make an â—nguent according to art Or thus Take juyce of Tobacco one pound common Oyl new Wax Rosin of the Pine-Tree of each two ounces Oyl of St Johns Wort one ounce Let them boyl at a gentle fire for three hours strain it and adde to it two ounces of Turpentine Boyl them to the consistence of an unguent It is good for old Ulcers of the Pox Scrophulas Ulcers or Spots contracted by the fire in Winter Kibes chaps of the hands especially if you rub the part affected first with the green Herb and put it into hot salt water and after anoint it with the said unguent Take Pitch Rosin new Wax Turpentine of each three ounces Let them melt and boyl together in a brass Vessell with live Coles under it when all are melted and boyl'd then adde of the juyce of Tobacco and bruised substance one pound let all boyl together five or six hours at an easy fire upon a Tripod in a double Vessell that is a Kettle full of boyling water move them constantly untill all the watryness be consumed and the rest be thickned to an unguent then press them out through a thick hempen cloath and put them again into the brass Skillet adding half an ounce of Venice-Turpentine yet let them not boyl but stirre them carefully then let them cool and keep them for use Take leaves of Tobacco bruised one pound Yellow Wax Turpentine Oyl Olives Pitch white Rosin of each three ounces Let them boyl together two hours in a new Pipkin to the consistence of an unguent then use it in a small quantity spread on leather or linnin Some there are that in both descriptions do not adde the juyce of Tobacco with the thick substance but they only strain it and crush it through a thick cloath and they reserve the juyce alone which is not the best way But the first unguent is farmore effectual for Wounds cancerous Ulcers Tetters Itch Knots upon the face because it hath a greater force to resolve and cleanse away which is the property of Tobacco if it be not hindered by other things that are joyned with it The latter is better to heal wounds and repair flesh to resolve Impostumes to ease paines and such like Operations But it seems needless to Iacobus Gohorius to edde new Wax Rosin common Oyl Turpentine because one of these is sufficient for the clamminess of Tobacco For such an heap of Simples that are in that Oyntment make the Oyntment only fit for Wounds which otherwise is good for cancerous Ulcers Itch Imposthumes Tetters and other Maladies It is no reason also so to waste the juyce of Tobacco that nothing should remain besides the bruised substance and strange Ingredients It will not be amiss to set down an unguent to cure wounds made with Gun-shot and fit for all other purposes the proper making whereof is taught by Iosephus Quercetanus Take the juyce of Tobacco one pound Turpentine five ounces compound Oyl of St Johns Wort eight ounces the best white Wine half a pound let these digest for eight daies afterwards boyl them untill the Wine be consumed then adde Colophonia Wax of each three ounces Mummie Amber of each two drams melt them again at the fire and make an unguent according to Art Iacobus Weckerus teacheth to make an unguent against the Scabs thus Take the juyce of Tobacco one ounce and half powdred Brimestone Salt of each one ounce Oyl of Tobacco Oranges of each two ounces Oyl of Wax Goats suet of each two ounces make an unquent according to art Iacobus Weckerus saith That he received another unguent from a Frenchman to cure wounds Take juyce of Tobacco one pound new Wax Pitch Rosin common Oyl of each two ounces boyl all together untill the juyce be consumed then adde Venice Turpentine three ounces strain all through a linnen cloath and keep it in a Box This cures Wounds and Ulcers certainly Adde to all this that a most fragrant Balsam is compounded of Tobacco Take as many leaves of Tobacco as you please bruise them in a Mortar and press forth the juyce cast away the gross body and set the juyce with an equall part of Oyl of Olives in a glass Viol in the Sun for a long time stop the glass close with Gums and Wax and fasten it with a sound skin of leather Or if you like it best set it in a Kettle full of boyling water or in Balneo or hide it in Horse dung and leave it there full forty daies renewing the dung sometimes when the forty daies are ended you shall find a Balsam in the Glass no less effectual for all Causes then the Quintessence of Tobacco it self
superfluous leaves for otherwise these will suck to themselves the force and nutriment of the greater leaves dig the earth with your finger or a little stick and make a hole in it and put into it ten or twelve grains and put a piece of Oxe dung both at the botom and top of them Do not put fewer seeds into one hole for they are so small that they would be choaked and lost It hates cold exceedingly as I told you and therefore you must raise a wall with clay or stone upon the North side of it that it may lie open to the Sâ—uth Sunne that so in Winter it may receive some warmth for then it must be â—enced and covered with mats and straw The Preparation of the Leaves IT may at first be sowed in an open field and when it is grown forth to the height of the leaves or tender branches of Colâ—worts it may be transplanted and be set apart in the fâ—resaid long bedâ— three foot broad and they must be planted in that order that every plant may stand three or four foot off from another least when the plants grow big the greater leaves should touch and hurt one the other and this would prove to be very great damage Bâ—t when they are growne so great that the flowers begin to peep forth presently before the flowers open themselves you shall cut away all the young shoots and tops with all the small twigs on the sides and the lesser leaves that use to grow between the rest For Tobacco must not bring flowers or seeds if you intend to preserve the force of it entire Moreover at the lower end of the stalk of it there are commonly two leaves found the Spaniards call them Bascherâ—s which take away the pleasant taste of Tobacco if they be mingled with the others You shall therefore be sure to cut off these with the rest that are superfluous and do not use them in any use with the rest for they tast ill and do not smell well and leave but ten or twelve gâ—eat leaves upon the stalk commonly when the foresaid smalleaves with the shoots on the top and the two lowest and such as are to be rejected are cut off But have an espâ—cial care that the Tobacco you desire to sell into these Germane Countreys England or France you suffer it not to runne to flower for all the forces of it will be lost when it flowers Moreover you shall mingle and bruise together the foresaid smaller leaves cut off with the small sprouts and buds of the flowers utterly rejecting those two greater leaves at the bottom called Boscheros as being good for nothing and unprofitable and having pressed forth the juice you shall boyl it in the best sweet strong Spanish Malago wine others adde to it Dants Ale and you shall skim it well and when it is well purified you shall put in good store of salt that the juyce may be as salt as Sea water then cast in a good quantity of Anni-seed and Ginger beaten into very small pouder and let it boyl one hour longer then let it stand that the dregs may settle to the bottom and pour off all that is clear You must keep this juyce thus boyled the Spanisâ— call it Caldo in a vessel close stopt that the forces may be kept within untill such time as the greater leaves which you lefâ— upon the stalk for in these resides all the strength of the plant are grown full ripe which when they are come to you shall presently cut them off next to the stalk and you shall seâ— the foresaid juyce or Caldo upon the fire and boyl it almost yet it must not boyl for should it boyl the strength of it would flie away to nothing and you must dip all the said leaves in that juyce severally But if it be too troublesome to dip all the leaves in one by one you must spread a woollen cloth on the ground upon a floor or in a barn or place where the wind hath no power though it be in the open air and upon this y on shall lay a row of leaves as close as to touch one the other and upon this rank of leaves you shall lay another rank of leaves in the same order yet not wet in the foresaid juyce and taking into your hands a great watering vessel which you must dip into the said juyce or Caldo you shall water by sprinkling all the foresaid leaves and those being watered you shall lay upon them a third and fourth rank and so forward a fifth rank and upon that a sixth of new leaves sprinkling all the rows with the foresaid Ewer or with a brush still observing the same order untill such time as the leaves thus disposed in order rise to be a foot and half high Then you must cover the leaves yet hot with the liquor newly sprinkled upon them with other woollen clothes that all the rows of the leaves may hold their former â—eat and lie to ferment But if that heat or fermentation cannot be procured by those woollen clothes covering the leaves you may lay Horse dung upon those clothes to raise the heat to cherish the leaves and make them stand in a constant fermentation But that they may not grow over hot you must often look upon the leaves untill they change colour And if by the heat they begin to look any whit red and to appear so which may be seen if the leaves be held against the light it is time to uncover the leaves and to take the coverings away for being too much heated they would grow black which is a sign of burning and of corruption and there must be principal care taken that that befall not for this is the chiefest thing to be obâ—erved Tobacco being thus warmed and fermented the foresaid leaves must be hanged up with small packthreds thrusting the needle through the greater nerve of the leaves that is on the backside and so they must be hanged up in a windy place but not very high where the Sunne shines for by the Sunnes heat all their forces would vanish When the wind hath dried them enough they must be bound in bundles binding them with cords as hard as you can so that each bundle must be as great about in the circumference of it as a great Spanish Daller but above all take care that thâ—y be most closely bound together The leaves of Tobacco thus prepared must be diligently and closely pack'd in vessels thrusting them in as much as you can And by this preparing and preserving of Tobacco it will have excellent force and vertue Note in Spanish or Malago wine This way of preparation is of later time and invented by the Spaniards for the use of themselves and strangers For it is probable that the Indians that are the Inhabitants untill such time as wine was brought unto them from other parts beyond the Seas used wine of Dates or of Coccos or some other liquour not to say piss
doth presently ease the pain of the teeth coming from cold or wind and takes away all corruption but this remedy is nothing worth if the pain proceed from a hot cause Also it is good to rub aking teeth with the diâ—â—lled water of Tobacco To cure the Thrush and Ulcers of the Gums a mixture is made with Honey of Roses and the juyce of sour Pomgranats which maudifies scoures and breeds flesh The leaves of Tobacco roâ—sted under the hot embers applyed to the pained part ease the pains of the Throat over-cooled by rheume and all other Diseases of the body proceeding from cold causes And a gargarism may be made of the decoction of this Herb alone or mingled with other Herbs proper for this Disease It wonderfully helps Diseases of the brest and those that spit bloody matter Also for short breath and other inveterate Diseases if a decoction of it be made with Sugar and the Stomach being first purged it be taken for somâ— daies together So the leaves of Tobacco boyled in water and Sugar put to the decoction Or rather juyce of the leaves pressâ—d forth and boyled into a syrrup Apozeme or Julep taken daily upon an empty stomach two or three ounces 〈◊〉 a time abates the difficulty of breathing and an old cough It brings forth thick clammy corrupt humours but the sick must be first well purged and generally his body must be well emptied by Physick Also a Syrrup may be made of other pectoral means adding the leaves of Tobacco to them or Liquorish Reasins Jububes Figges Prunes Dates and Herbs fit for this use as Maydenhair Scabious Horehound and the like Take Maydenhairs white and black Horehound Coltsfoot of each one handfull Tobacco leaves two or three Reasins without stones whole Barley of each one Pugill Liquorish scraped two drammes make a decoction to a pint sweeten it with Sugar and Honey what is sufficient Another that attenuates and cuts more Take Scabious Horehound Maydenhairs Wall-Ruâ— of each one handfull and half Figgs ten Reasins one ounce Tobacco leaves five Liquorish scraped two drammes make a decoction in a pound of Hoâ—ied water untill two parts be consumed Adde to the strained Liquor of simple Oxymel Syrrup of Maydenhair of each two ounces Oxymel compound one ounce mingle them Water of Tobacco with Eybright water drank daily upon an empty stomach doth the same as Doctor Iarnacus Goverour of Rochel hath proved who was an intimate acquaintance of Nicotilus and private to the counsels and businesses of the French King and whom he chiefly desired to communicate the Knowledg of this Plant to This man being at a Banquet of the Kings with the Embassodour professed that by this means he cured one of an Asthma I saith Nicolaus Monardus observed some men troubled with an Asthma returning from the WestIndies or from Peru chewing Tobacco leaves in their mouthes and swallowing the juyce of them to make them spit forth corrupt matter but though these men were drunk by it it appears they found much good by it to bring out matter and flegm that stuck in their stomachâ— The dry powder of Tobbacco performs the same if you hold as much of it as you can take between the top of your fore-finger and thumb at the root of your tongue near your palate taking care that you swallow not the powder for in a short space you shall perceive great plenty of flegmatique humours to run forth at your mouth and this will endure untill that you may fill a small dish with flegme When you think this watry huâ—our is come forth in sufficient quantity wash your mouth with some good white Wine Do this every morning upon an empty stomach If this be to troublesome do it every third day alwaies according to art premising universals The same way it is profitable for the Diseases of the Brest and the parts adjoyning as the Lungs Wesand Throat offended by afflux of humours It is wonderfull good for pains proceeding from a defluxion of humours upon the mouth of the stomach or bred there and for all old paines of it or preternatural long-during paines of the Reins and for contractions of parts from chronical and lasting Diseases to chew the powder of dry leaves of Tobacco in the mouth to make an Apophâ—egmatism with them The women of the West-Indies mightily commend the leaves of Tobacco because they take away the crudities of the stomachs of young and old and dispell winds restore concoction soften the belly if it be first annointed with oyl of Olives and the leaves being made hot under hot embers be applyed to the region of the belly and be renewed as oft as occasion is The ashes must not be wiped off but more must be laid on to make it more effectual Also if you lay the said leaves so prepared to one that is surfeitted with meat or drink you shall very much remove his Crapula and repletion The same reason serves for the powder of the dry Herb if you put so much of it as you can hold between your finger and thumb into a spoonfull or two of Aqua vitae when you go to bed For it takes away your surfet and makes you sleep and resolves flegm They that swound away presently recover their former strength if the smoak of the leaves come into their mouthes or nostrils drawn by a Pipe or Reed Tobacco wonderfully helps the torments of the Guts and Belly and pain of the Colick and other paines proceeding from wind or cold if you lay the leaves on very hot and change them often untill the pain abate The powder of the leaves dried is good for the same use taken in white Wine or some other liquor when you go to bed about half a dram or a dram weight or thereabouts The leaves used the same way cure the wringing of the small Guts and it is proper to put this Herb with others in decoctions for Clysters as also to use them for Plasters and Fomentations that will do great service For Example take Mercury Râ—e Marsh Mallows Little Centâ—ury of each one handfull Hysop Calamint Wormwood of each one handfull and an half Tobacco leaves six roots of Marsh-mallows half an ounce Linseed Fenegrek of each three drams Cumminseed Anniseed of each one dram and half let them boâ—l in sufficient quantity of water untill the third paâ—t be consumed then take of the liquor boil'd and strained one pound Hiera Picra half â—n ounce Benedicta Laxativa â—ix drams fresh Butter Honey of Roseâ— strained of each six drams Oyl of Rue and Dill of each one ounce and half common Salt one dram Mingle them all and make a Clyster If Tobacco leaves be distilled with Fumitary it wonderfully helps all Diseases of the Liver But observe you must take less quantity of Fumitary then of Tobacco The juyce of the leaves of Tobacco bruised with a little Vineger or the Oyntment of them
worms in foul Ulcers and all creeping Ulcers like as sublimate doth Also this cures hard flesh growing upon the legs of Cattle and Pack-horses whose backs are galled with burdens and Pack-saddles or if they be more hurt though the wound or wounds encline to a Cancer only apply the leaves or juyce with lint or use the dried Herb. They will be so well cured without any other Medicament that you need not to forbear your Journey Tobacco is an Antidote against Hellebore The Hunters of Spain are wont to use Hellebore because it is a present poyson to kill Deer and wild Beasts The Catholick King to try the truth of it bad a Hunter to hurt a little Dog in the throat and to put Hellborne into the wound and by and by after the juyce of Tobacco upon lint and so to bind all up and the Dog received no harm to the wonder of them all The like happened last Winter at Antwerp where one gave to a Cat of a Matron of the Town a Bolus mingled with venome because the Cat was to fierce After this the Cat could stay no where but ran up and down and tryed in vain to vomit up the poyson the Matron observing this found a way to open the Cats mouth and to thrust in a little Ball of Tobacco made up with butter The Cat presently after cast up the poyson and escaped death Thus much for Male Tobacco but the use and faculties of the Female are almost the same as of the Male and when the Male is wanting we used the Female as I have directed you before for the Male to cure by Observe this that the leaves of the Female Tobacco are good in decoctions for Clysters They are excellent against Dysenteries and the Balsam of it yeelded to no Medicament to cure a Cancer especially of the Brests The third sort of Tobacco which some call black others yellow Henbane is contrary to Tobacco in nature and qualities and therefore they do ill that foolishly use it for the true Tobacco Yet it may serve to revulse hot humours and in part to resolve hot Impostumes also in a Cancer it may restrain the heat of black choler Iohan. de vigo capite de hernia useth Henbane to resolve humours It is strange saith Monardus lib. 3. of simple Medicaments that are brought out of the new world what notable vertues and faculties are daily discovered in Tobacco For besides those related I can saith he relate as many were which I have heard others speak of and I my self have observed The juyce pressed out of the fresh leaves of Tobacco and drank the quantity of two ounces vehemently purgeth water and flegme above and beneath and therefore it is profitably given in Dropsies and the Falling-sickness Also water is distilled from the leaves of Tobacco cut in pieces in a glass Limbeck which is afterwards rectified in the Sun This is almost as good as the juyce of the Plant chiefly for Wounds Tumours Kibes and for nails that fall off from the fingers of themselves if the water be but poured into the part affected or now and then a lint or cloath wet in it and applyed Leo Suavius bids us gather the leaves in Iuly bruise them and distill them in a double Vessell with glass Instruments presently set it in the Sun and keep it a year This water taken fasting the quantity of an ounce or an ounce and half is good for an Asthma and an old cold The Oyl by infusion is thus made Take the leaves torn or cut in pieces boyl them in Oyl Olives which will be coloured press it forth rejecting the leaves then infuse fresh leaves and expose them to the Sun in a Violglass or boyl them untill the juyce be consumed this is good against Scabs Wounds and Ulcers It cures pains of the head and foulness of the skin Also Oyl may be drawn from the Seeds of Tobacco which drank in a small quantity is excellent against venome and bites of Vipers Distilled Oyl is made by descent as the Chymists call it is a Glass retort Salt is made by the Art of Chymistry from Tobacco and both of these namely the Oyl distilled and the Salt far exceed the leaves or juyce the powder or distilled water to cure Diseases because the most thin and excellent essences of it are separated which are better then the terrestriall matter for these are the next and immediate seat and subject of the faculties themselves Let no man despise or scornfully laugh at the name of Essence for Galen used it explaining the thing very fitly For I understand nothing else then he doth when he saith that some Herbs are of a more thick thin or fiery nature and essence then others are Iacobus Gohorius of Paris shews the way to make Salt of Tobacco thus Calcins Tobacco dissolve the Calx strain filtrat evaporate it there will be a Salt which will do no harm in a Caustick and not so Corrosive in dissolving malignant Ulcers wherefore this is the common way to extract Salt from all Vegetables Burn the Herb in the fire the place being swept clean with Brooms some first set it in the Sun others dry it in the shade let it burn untill it stick together in a lump Or if you proceed further to burn it to burn it to ashes you shall have more Salt Put the ashes into a glazed earthen Pot and pour fair water upon them and let it seeth some hours at the fire pour it forth into another Vessell and when the dregs are setled strain it through a linnen cloath set the strained liquour at an easie fire with few Coles that the water may evaporate and the Salt remain in the bottom The next way is more curious Burn the dried Herb in an â—arthen Pot covered by a long and strong fire untill the ashes come to be pure white and that is a sign it is perfectly calcined then let it boyl in Rain or distilled water in a Glass vessell in sifted ashes let it boyl untill a fourth part of the water be wasted then let it stand a while Pour it into another Glass and putting in some new very fine Tongues to filter it the pure and salt water will be strained into the Receiver underneath it What is filtrated must be evaporated at an easie fire in a Glass Vessell and the salt will remain at the bottom clear and pure The third way is the most exact Gather the Herb green and bruise it distill the water of it by a Limbeck calcine the faeces at a moderate fire the Vessell being stopt untill they come to ashes Let the fire be gentle that it may not consume the proper and radical moisture of the Plant for that will make it run to glass pour the water upon the earth of it and it will thirstily devoure it Digest it in Horse dung or in a Bath some daies Pour it out