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Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c.
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Everard, Giles.
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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
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