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A18770
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[Tabacco]
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Chute, Anthony, d. 1595?
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1595
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STC 5262.5; ESTC S292
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of which disease is to stop the passage of the wind and make vs breath vneasily This hearbe in fourme much resembleth Consonde and is of so neer a likenesse and resemblance that you would iudge it to be the greater Consond The maine stalke of Tabacco groweth vpright big in proportion his leaues are velueted and are in growth bigger and larger at the stalke than towards the end of the leafe resembling the plaine fourme of any other leafe not ragged saue that you shall haue some leaues broader and larger than both your hands and in length as much as three hands breadth Some you shall haue growing very high somtimes to the heigth of nine or ten foote yea somtimes a cubit but that fortunes according to the ordering of it when it is sowne The leaues somtimes grow halfe a foot distant the one from the other if it hath any great heigth The floure of the Tabacco is much like the floure of Niel sometimes yellow and somtimes of a carnation colour and somâ—times in fourme like a bell And when it casteth the flower it leaues the former proportion and taketh the semblance of an apple in which you may finde the seeds inclosed very small appearing not much vnlike to Iusquiasm seedes which are yellowish but when they grow to be toward their full ripenesse then they appeare more neare to a blacke In those regions from whence we receiued first the knowledge hereof Tabacco hath both floure seed and leafe at one instant but the reason is those countries of the Indians are better and apter to bring forth sooner such hot hearbes than a cold climate In the nine or tenth month it springeth very much at the foot for then is the roote fastned into the ground with a great sort of very weake strings Who would make experiment of the greene leafe to apply it to any vlcer sore or cut shall in brusing of it finde a iuice thicke and slimie but in the smell it is indifferentlie well sauoring although such as haue no vse of the smell would iudge it strong and noisom in tast it is somewhat biting it is drie in the first degree and whosoeuer would haue it good should doe wel to sow it in the hottest and most fertill ground for such it requireth The best place wherin it will most prosper and be naturally planted in our countries is where the sunne shineth most and if it be possible against some wall which may defend it from the North winde which is an infinite enemy to this hearbe and withall it were conuenient that no winde at all beeing ouer rigourous should come neere it for the weakenesse of the stalke caused by the high growth of the hearbe is such that a small winde will blow it downe vnlesse happily it be deeply rooted If the weather be ouer drie it will desire much watering Cold kils this and therefore all means are to be vsed against it Who would sow it ought by the opinion of the best skild in Phisicke to take this order first take a dosen seeds of those which you finde inclosed in that part of the seede which resembleth the bell and put them togither into one hole about three inches deep in the ground and the cause why you are to plant it deepe is because the seeds be very small and little and might be choaked If the weather be ouer drie you shall doe well to water it fifteene daies together It may be sowne in manner like the hearbe Laistich whose seeds are mingled with earth or sand It will seeme long ere it appeare aboue ground but that will be according to the nature of the ground and yet euen then it will be longer than many other seedes but immediatly as soone as you see it begin to spring you shall couer it as much as you can conueniently least that frosts or cold or tempestious raine nip it away or wash it downe and after conuenient time of growth you shall take it vp by the roote cutting vp the ground round about so that there may none of the strings of the roote be broken which to preuent you may very wel wash away the earth with water and then replant it again neer some wal within two or three foot but if the ground be not good there as commonly it may happen then prepare with apte manuring it For the time of sowing it in England I agree rather with Monardes than these two who say it is best sowing it in the midst of Aprill but I would rather hold it better to sow it in March for the same occasion that Monardes writeth howbeit Stephen and Liebault write that the Spaniards and Indians sow it after haruest It is hot and drie in the second degree and therfore fit vndoubtedly to purge and clense by experience they affirme it hath healed Noli me tangere so named because it resembleth I thinke a curst shrew that must not be toucht when shee is angry It hath healed the disease called the Wolfe the Canker the kings euill all old sores wounds â—etters broad biles Apostumes pricking of the fish called Viues the nature of whose touch is to procure infinite bleeding euen to death and diuerse other diseases which experience hath not yet brought to light These men affirme that who so hath the gout and when the extreamitie of the paine beginneth rubbeth the infected place with oyle Oliue and afterwards apply warme leaues of Tabacco shall find great ease Who taketh the leaues and seeths them in water and maketh thereof a sirupe with sugar and receiueth of it euerie morning to the quantitie of two ownces shall finde how much power it hath to dissolue grosse humors to ease the hard drawing of the breath breake an old cough or fleume how it causeth dissolution of hard swellings in the body if before the receipt heerof we receiue some vniuersall purge and then the iuice of the leaues vnstop the kidney and softneth the hardnesse by being onely applied vnto the region of the kidny and in case we want of the leaues the pouder mingled with any ointment proper to such an euill is auailable The same means auaileth in coldnesse of the stomacke the bellie the collique and the inward partes being applied to the Nauil They affirme that in France a man hauing a sore vlcer or impostume caused by the euil of naples that we cal in English the French something was immediatly cured therof It is a singular remedie against soundings to receiue the smoke as we vse with pipes that which is more strange than the world wold credit the inhabitants of Florida often nourish themselues four or fiue daies together by the smoke neither eating nor drinking any thing whatsoeuer and this is most certainly confirmed by that which he writeth More than this writeth Liebault that there are which distill water of the green leaues of Tabacco in a Limbecke of glasse which water is no lesse singular in all effects than the very iuice
helping all wounds sores and bruses euen restoring to men which by some aduenture haue lost their nailes new ones by washing that part with the water destilled and afterward wrapping them vp in fine linnen clothes dipt in the water Some there are also who to speake like a Chimist doe distill oyle of Tabacco per descensum which oile these authors agreing with the Paracelsians preferre before all other applications either of leaues iuice or pouder because the quintescences and extractions drawne out of the simples are the subtill spirit and haue the purest vertue and facultie of the substance from the which they are drawne They prescribe vnto vs this kinde of receipt Take of the choisest and most substantial leaues of this Tabacco one pound beat them in a morter of Marble after take halfe a pound of sweet hogs grease refind and clarified without salt and this being melted ad to it the Tabacco and set it ouer a soft fire to seeth deliberatly vntill such time as you finde the waterish humour of the Tabacco vapoured away and that the mingled substances retaine the fourme of a perfect ointment this reserue for a singular and medicinable good Another is this Take Rosel new wax and turpentine of each three ounces melt them togither and then adde vnto them a pound of Tabacco prepared as before mingle them togither and after with a slow fire set them to incorporat seething togither fiue or sixe howers vntill the water of the Tabacco be cleane vapoured away after this is done straine it through a course linnen cloath that may be very strong afterward take halfe a pound of Venice Turpentine and infuse it into these thinges beforesaid without any more boyling of it but stirring it continually vntill it be cold afterwards preserue these as pretious ointments touching their effects the first of these two is the better for sores vlcers carbuncles tetters and to dissolue than the second because Tabacco hath so much the more efficacy by how much there are fewer commixions The second is better than the first to consolidate any wound dissolue impostumes and swellings to appease their rage Further you may make a singular Baulme by cutting greene leaues of Tabacco and putting them into a glasse well stopt if you set it a good time in hot water or in the sunne or buried in Ventre equino by the space of fortie daies and doubtlesse you shal finde so singular a baulme as shal not be lesse admirable say mine authours than that oile which is made by the Paracelsians for all kind of vses that shall be desired in a hearbe of that nature AeGidius Eurartus in his discourse De herba Panacaea writeth how a certaine woman had giuen her cat a very strong poyson when the poore cat was now in that taking that she could not stand with dissinesse and striued to void forth the poison in vaine the woman remeÌ„bring her selfe found means to open her iawes and making a little ball of brused Tabacco mingled with butter thrust it into hir mouth and so swallowing it downe within a short time shee cast vp all the poison and so was saued Lâ—o 〈◊〉 wils that we should gather the leaues in the moneth of Iuly and then bruse and distill them in a double Limbecke with two spouts of glasse and keepe this a yeare for saith he this receiued to the quantitie of an ounce for the increasing of health in a sicke stomacke is most effectuall There is likewise a Salt and an Oile to be made of Tabacco both of them more singular and effectuall for all diseases than either the leaues or iuice or water which the Paracelsians and Chimists generally agree in because they will that in this oyle should be contained the true life and naturall vertue in greater substance and better qualitie than any of the other Iacobus Gohorius a Parisien teacheth vs this maner of making of the Salt First saith he calcine this Tabacco and afterward dissolue it poure it into a pipkin and let it vapour according to reason this shalbe singular for vlcers and such like and this is the maner of drawing salt out of all vegitable things burne your hearbe first in the fire yet some vse to drie it in the shadow but being euen burnt to ashes you haue the more salt afterward taking a leaden vessell full of most pure cleare water infuse these ashes which being set to the fire let it boile some quantitie and then poure it into an other vessell where receiuing it in a clean cloth let it hang a while by the fire that the water may drie it selfe cleane away and not to haue any moisture remaining and in this cloath being so drie shall you find that Salt Another maner is this take the hearbe being dried and put it into a close pipkin vnder which you shall make fire vntil it be burnt into a fine white ashe then let it boile in raine water or distilled water vntill the fourth part be coÌ„sumed then let it stand a while and after poure it into an other vessell which shall be full of pure and cleare water and that which shall goe out of the pipkin euaporat with a slow fire into a glas-bottle and the Salt shal remaine in the bottome Leonardus Fierâ—nantus a famous Phisition of our time writes that he tooke the roote and seed of Tabacco and brused them togither in a morter the leaues waighed saith he foure poundes afterward he went and laid them in Ventre equinâ— by the space of thirtie daies and to the end that it might not corrupt he put in some Salt with sixe ounces of Aqua vitae then distilling it in Balneo Mariae euen to the extraction of al the moistnesse and to the end he might the better conserue it he added so much oile of Sulpher that it euen smelt of it and with this composition he serued his turne in sundry occasions those which were troubled with agues he was wont to cure heereby giuing them but one spoonfull at once those which were wounded or otherwise hurt if they did either drinke hereof or bath their wounds in some quantity of it not without great admiration he vsed to to cure These be the opinions that be tearmed Receptiores of this plant i. that be more receiued than the rest and these I haue deliuered therfore not of mine owne otherwise than of mine owne collection but from the best Phisitions that haue written latest thereof if therfore the natures of Tabacco and the diuerse qualities it hath be more confirmed than before it is well if not it is neuer the worse I meane it shall neuer the more nor disable nor derogate from it this I say because there be so many heads as there be bodies to beare them so many wits and so many iudgements will follow some of knowledge some of experieÌ„ce some of fancie some one way some another euery man according to his humor well the plant hath growen the Phisition written and the author of this worke hath gathered who wisheth euery one his due the planter the writer and the reader FINIS