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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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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