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A01443	Phisicall and approved medicines, aswell in meere simples, as compound obseruations With a true and direct iudgement of the seuerall complexions of men, & how to minister both phisicke and medicine, to euery seuerall complexion. With the making of many excellent vnguents, and oyles, as also their applications, both for gargarismes & inflamations of the face, and other diseases incident to the body of man, aswell chiurugicall as phisicall. With the true vse of taking that excellent hearbe tabacco, aswell in the pipe by sume, as also in phisicke, medicine and chirurgerie.; Triall of tabacco	Gardiner, Edmund.	1611 (1611)	STC 11564.5; ESTC S114900	64,844	130

Rec. San. sanct Indorum m. ij Ligni sancti subtilissimè puluerisati et Corticis eiusdem ana vnc ij Aristoloch long Centaurij minoris Absinthij Equiseti Eupatorij Saniculae Foliorum myrti Pimpinellae et Consolidaemed vulnerariorum ana m. j. Corticum thuris Myrrhae Sarcocollae ana ℥ v. Vinirubriodoriferi l. iij. Mellis despumati ℥ iiij Boyle all these together and when it is strained make an iniection into the vlcer adding to it of the best Aqua vitae ℥ j. for euery time that you vse the iniection Or else if to the former decoction you adde of aqua vitael ij destill them all together in a glasse limbecke in Palneo Mariae you shall haue an excellent water to deterge cleanse and conglutinate filthy hollow stinking or sordidous vlcers This ointment also following will performe the same effect Rec. Succi san sanct Indorum lib. 5. Mellis electi ℥ iiij Farinae hordei vnc ij Myrrhae elect ʒij Terebinth vnc j. ss Boile all these together and make an Vnguent to dippe or arme your tents withall that shall be put into the cauities of any vlcers Paracelsus the fuliginous Alchimist in his first booke Chirurgiae Mag. tract 2. cap. 9. plainly describeth the same vertues to bee in that oyle which hee there calleth Oleum antimonij rubicundum In like sort Oleum aeris Oleum Saturni but chiefly Sal Saturni album brought into powder destilled in a retort with a very cleare fire vntill all the spirits be vanished and the water after that separated from the oyle per Balneum for within a few dayes it perfectly cureth those vlcers which of som are esteemed for incurable especially those that follow any scorbuticall sicknesse Master Iohn Gerard the most learned Herbarist of this age in his great Historie of plants describeth an excellent balsame surpassing in my conceit all the fore-recited which here in this place I purpose to set downe in regard of the many and notable vertues that are in it I doe make saith he of Tabacco an excellent balsame to cure deepe wounds and punctures made by some narrow sharpe and sharpe pointed weapon which balsame doth bring vp the flesh from the bottome very speedily and also heale simple cuts in the flesh according to the first intention that is to say to glew or soulder the lippes of the wound together not procuring matter or corruption vnto it as is commonly seen in the healing of wounds The Receit is this Rec. Oleirosarum Olei Hypericonis ana l. j. Foliorum tabaci in mortarin contusorum l. ij Boyle them together to the consumption of the iuyce then straine it and put it to the fireagaine adding thereto of Venice Turpentine ℥ ij Olibani Masticis and ℥ ss in most fine subtile powder the which you may at al times make into an Vng or salue by putting thereto wax and rosin to make it a stiffe body which worketh exceeding wel in malign virulēt vlcers as in wounds punctures I send this Iewell to you women of all sorts especially to such as cure and helpe the poore and impotent of your countrey without reward But vnto the beggerly rabble of witches charmers imposters and such like cozeners that regard more to get monie than to helpe for charitie I wish these few medicines farre from their vnderstanding and from those deceiuers whom I wish to be ignorant herein But courteous Gentlewomen I may not for the malice that I doe beare vnto such hide any thing from you of such importance and therefore take one more that followeth wherewith I haue done verie many and good cures although of small cost but regard it not the lesse for that And thus it is Rec. Foliorum tabaci l. ij Axungiae porcinae l. j. Stampe the hearbe small in a stone mortar putting thereto a small cup-full of redde or claret wine stirre them well together couer the mortar from filth and so let it rest vntill morning then put it to the fire againe and let it boyle gently continually stirring it vnto the consumption of the wine then straine it and set it to the fire againe put thereto of the iuyce of the hearbe l. j. Terebinthinae venetae ℥ iiij Boyle them together to the consumption of the iuyce then adde thereto of the roots of Aristolochia rotunda or birth-wort in most fine powder ℥ ij Sufficient waxe to giue it a bodie the which keep for thy wounded poore noighbour This also helpeth healeth the old and filthy vlcers of the legges and other parts Tabacco is vsed of many men in outward medicines either the hearbe boyled with oyle waxe rosin and turpentine as before I haue sette downe or the extraction thereof with salt oyle balsame the destilled water and such like against tumors apostumes olde vlcers of hard curation botches scabbes stinging with netles carbuncles poysoned arrowes and wounds made with gunne or any other weapon Thus haue you heard what the learned skilfull Chirurgion and Herbarist Master Iohn Gerard a man of vnreprooueable authoritie saith of Tabacco and yet I think he will not say that it fitteth all persons alike for I suppose that it is nought for Alchymists Brewers Bakers Smithes cookes furnace-men more than for fisher-men and such waterish people All things haue their season Imponit finem sapiens rebus honestis A wise man may vse moderation Euen in things of commendation And I may say my Pater noster out of season Diuersos diuersaiuuant non omnibus annis omnia conueniunt Diuers delights to diuers men Nor to all Doe all things at all yeares conuenient fall The leaues of Tabac being applied vpon green wounds staieth the flux of bloud soldereth glutinateth them and if the wounds be verie great they must first bee washed with white wine and so the lippes of the wound bee ioyned together the inyce of the leaues must be sprinkled or caston and the drie leaues being bruised belayed all ouer vpon the wounded place And the next day following and from day to day this order must bee strictly obserued vntill it be perfectly brought to cure obseruing withall a true regiment in our diet and order of liuing Doubtlesse this is a rare miracle of Nature and a wonderful vertue that is in this cotemptible little plant or rather esteemed to be so vilde base and contemptible For if any one be newly and dangerously wounded and that the miserable partie feeleth a bleeding vnto death what is a more noble medicine or more readie at hand then Tabacco to binde hard vpon the wound to stay the inordinate effusion of bloud Questionlesse if wee were as diligent and greedie to search out the true properties and vertues of our owne domesticall remedies which we buy of others so dearely wee would not enforce our selues with such eager pursute after those of forraine countreys as though things farre fetcht off were better than our owne neere at hand or as though nothing were good and holesome

vaine fantasie thinke him who oppresseth them to creepe vp by little and little on the bed as it were to deceiue them and anone to runne downe againe They seeme also to themselues to heare him This disease of the night-Mare is also called by another name Puigalion or Puigamon It commeth by meanes of certaine grosse and thicke vapours which doe partly intercept and hinder the free passage of the spirits animall by which meane difficultie of speaking and breathing doe proceede with a perturbation of the sense and motion of the whole bodie Now this dreadfull griefe which some being much deceiued thinking that it must onely proceede of witchcraft is chiefely remedied with the extracted oile of Tabacco a fewe drops taken in sacke or maluesie after the stomacke bee first accordingly by the rules of art expurged from those superfluous humours which are the true cause of the disease The oyle of Tabacco for a colde and moist stomacke is farre better than oyle of pepper oyle of Anniseeds the extracted oyles of Fennell Commin Masticke Cloaues or Calamint and if an Electuarie were made for this disease called the Mare I suppose this to be-excellent An Electuarie for an ouer-cold and moist stomacke Rec. Pulueris aromat r●s maioris ex descriptione Gabrielis ʒij Puluer is electuar diacalaminthes ʒj Diatrion piperij ℈ ij Conseruae anthos rosarum Damascenarum ana ℥ ss Sacchari optimi vnc j. ss Serapij de mentha quod sufficit vt fiat elect liquidum Adde Olei tabaci chymici gutt as aliquot Dosis vnc ss per horam vnam aut alteram ante pastum I haue discoursed sufficiently as I iudge of the vertues of Tabacco for inward diseases of mans bodie now will I proceede to his effects in curing those that happen outwardly and first there is prescribed vnto vs this Vnguent Rec. Of the choysest and most substantiall leaues of Tabacco lib. j. Beat them in a mortar of marble and after that take of Axungia porcina lib. ss Let it be refined and clarified and without falt so this being melted adde to it the Tabacco and set it ouer a soft fire to seeth deliberately and leasurely vntill such time as you finde the waterish humiditie of the Tabacco to be vapoured away and that the mingled substances retaine the force of a perfect Vnguent Reserue this for a singular and medic inable good Vnguent for sores vlcers carbuncles tetters and likewise to dissolue tumours There is also another in vse which is this that followeth Rec. Terebinthinae Resinae Ceraenouae ana vnc iij. Melt them together and then adde to them of Tabacco prepared as before lib. j. mixe them together and after with a slow fire set them to incorporat seething together fiue or sixe houres vntill the waterish humour of the Tabacco be cleane euapourated After this is done straine it through a coorselinnen cloth that may be very strong After all this take of Venice Turpentine l. ss infusing it into these things before said without any more boyling of it but yet stirring it cōtinually til it be cold afterwards preserue and keepe these as precious Vnguents This surpasseth the former in all colde griefes to amend and ease the swelling paines and aches of the gowt Sciatica and the like helping and comforting weake and resolued sinewes and cicatrizeth Master William Clowes a skilfull Chirurgeon of London in his booke of obseruations for curing gun-shot describeth an excellent Vnguent of Nicotiana verie like vnto the former which he learned as hee affirmeth of a verie learned man both in Physicke and Chirurgerie which he said had wrought wonders aboue beliefe but I saith Master Clowes found not that excellencie in it which he promised and I looked for neuerthelesse I acknowledge it a medicine not to be disallowed and this is the order of making of it as the Physician appointed Rec. Foliorum Nicotianae l. j. Let the leaues be well stamped and after strained out as strongly as possible may bee then adde thereto Ceraenouae Resinae Olei communis ana ℥ iij. Let all these boyle together vnto the consumption of the iuyce then adde thereunto terebinthinaevenetae ℥ iij. boyle all a little together and reserue it to your vse But this Vnguent sinceit was first knowne is greatly bettered chiefely by Iosephus Quercetanus and others also Moreouer with the foresaid descriptions there is also another in vse and more necessarie for wounds made with gunshot and I haue approoued it in many other cures and thus it is truely prescribed and published Rec. Succi de Peto lib. vj. Adip is ouini lib. ij Olei communis lib. xij Terebinthinae venetae ℥ xij Resinae pini lib. j. Masticis ℥ ij Colophoniae lib. ij Cerae lib. j. Vini albi l. j. Misce fiat Vnguentum secundum artem Let not the Succus of Petum be put in before all the rest be well relented together and then strained into a cleane panne and being molten put in the iuyces to the rest and boyle it till the iuyces bee all consumed Then straine it againe and reserue it to your vse This Vnguent doth notably incarne and mundifie You shall here in the closing vp of this my discourse haue prescribed two singular oyntments of my owne inuention wherewith I haue performed many great cures and thereby haue wonne both crownes and credit Rec. Herbarum sanae sanctae Indorum m. iij. Quinqueneruiae Saniculae ana m. ss Consolidae mediae vulnerariorum Bagulae Solidaginis Saracenicae ana m. j. Beat and temper them all with barrowes grease l. j. and of the best oyle oliue l. ss and adde to them Vini albi l. jss to be boyled the space of one houre Afterwards straine them and adde to them of waxe l. ss Resinae Terebinthinae ana ℥ iiij Misce fiat Ceratum This doth notably heale This other that followeth is both sanatiue and mundificatiue and this is the true description of it Rec. Terebinthinae ℥ ss Vnguenti aurei Vnguenti tabaci priùs descripti ana ℥ ss Myrrhae Mastiches Sarcocollae ana ʒij Succi Tabaci ℥ jss Cerae Resinae ana ʒiij Mel is ʒij Olei Hyperici q. sufficit Cum vitell ouorum no. ij Fiat Vnguentum Thus much as touching Tabacco though not so much as others perhaps might and I could haue done but yet so much as I thought worthy to be noted and written for to satisfie and content the gentle good will of the louing and curteous readers if that it please them to take as great pleasure and patience to read it as I haue taken paines after my long endurance in prison of the kings Bench to set it forth Which thought neuer to haue done had it not been for the earnest sollicitations and importunities of my best and deerest friends I am sure that some will finde this my discourse too long others too short and trifling and peraduenture vpbraide and cast in my dish the saying of the famous Poet Terentius in his Comedie entituled Heautont Act. 4. sce. 1. Naeiste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit But if there be any such fault-finders quarrell-pickers corner-creepers or spider catchers I will leaue both them and their figuratiue flowts wherewith they are accustomed to hit men ouer the shinnes and end this my discourse with the Poet Martialis lib. 13. Epigram 21. against all such detractours Nasutus sis vsque licèt sis denique nasus Quantum noluerit ferre rogatus Atlas Et possis ipsum tu deridere Latinum Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas Ipse ego quàm dixi quid dentem dente juuabit Rodere carne opus est si satur esse velis Ne perdas operam quise mirantur in illos Virus habe nos haec nouimus esse nihil In English thus Suppose you were long nos'd suppose such nose you weare As Atlas if you should entreat him would not beare That you in flowting olde Latinus can be fine Yet can you say no more against these toyes of mine Than I haue said what boot is 't tooth with tooth to whet You must haue flesh if you to glut your selfe be set Loose not your paines gainst them who on themselues are doating Keepe you your sting we know these things of ours are nothing FINIS Virgilius Aeneid 2 Horat. li. 2 epist. 2. 29. Tibul. li 4 heroic ver 4. Lucret. l. 3 Cleanly Description of Tabacco or Sana sancta Indorum The place The time The temperature Ouid. lib. 2. Metam Horat. li. 1. Epist. 1. Iuuenal Satyr 6. Cat. eleg 1. Vnguentum Sanans nostrum Vnguentum nostrum Sanans mundificans This fellow sure with much adoo Hath told great tales and trifles too

more mediterrane And againe amongst men they are more cruelly handled which being of a hot and moist temperature and such as be full of grosse and corrupt humours hauing such bodies as be ready to run ouer with plenty thereof are more subiect to putrefied agues than colde and drie complexions and such as haue but small store of humors and the same very fine and pure For ouermuch loosenesse and largenesse of body euen as too much adstriction maketh a way for the pestilence But it will be necessary and to our purpose in hand and worthy the labour and paines taking more deepely to enter into and to make a larger rehearsal into this discourse and leasurely by peece-meales as it were to cut and minse the same Although therefore the pestilent poison without exception no lesse violently setteth vpon as well the richer as the poorer sort and assoone dispatcheth those of sturdy and able bodies as meacocks milk-sops and weaklings and such as be great strong quarrie bigge well set handsome timbred and such as we call well proportioned and of a iust temperature and making neither too slender nor too grosse as well as those that are sickly queasie and abounding with cacochymicall humours and vpon men as women old and young hot complexions as cold moist as dry for to all alike it proclaimeth open war yet neuerthelesse it often commeth to passe that vpon some it sooner layeth holde and killeth more speedily than it doth vpon others For first in respect of ages wee finde by common experience that Infants are more endangered thereby and take it sooner than children and these sooner than young men and younger more than those of riper yeares and women are more often subiect to this griefe than men and chiefely those that bee with childe and such as are not monethly expurged Of complexions likewise that temperament which is hot and moist or cold and moist is oftener and easilyer ouerthrowne than either the hot and drie or the cold and drie complexions And for the same reason the sanguine and the phlegmatique constitution are most in danger and are more subiect vnto this griefe than either cholericke or melancholike persons and doe sooner die withall The cause of this varietie is the superabundant corrupt or filthy humours subiect to putrefaction or corrupt and filthy bloud which is easily infected with the contagion of the ayre receiuing pestilence And this is the cause that those who are much subiect to sicknesse although that some will falsly maintaine that either the French Pockes or the quartaneague is a Supersedeas to the plague and cacochymicall bodies doe sooner feele the hurt thereof and are put into further hazard than such as bee exquisitly sound and in perfect health and those that vse nourishments which breede euill iuyces and humours in the bodie than the contrarie or such as bee of easie concoction and such as surfet pamper or cocker themselues too much more than those that behaue themselues temperately and vse a moderation in their expences and manner of liuing as some say they doe at Florence in Italy To shut vp all in a word those that keepe good rule liuing continently are freer from this plaguy infection then such as liue after their owne pleasure wilfully and luxuriously and they that keepe home lesse than such as gad abroad being accounted good fellowes louing to frequent much company do lesse feele this poisonous disease Now although by this that I haue said one may easily gather why Tabacco should be good in some constitutions I meane in hot and moist and colde and moist and why not in othersome so holesome yet for all that this must be taken warily namely that wee vse not Tabacco for purgation sake especially nor yet any purging medicine in the beginning of the plague or yet if they be taken with any fluxe or loosenesse of the belly for of these thus affected there is scarse the hundreth person that escapeth with life I know well what Fracastorius Palmarius and many others haue written and enforced themselues somtimes too farre concerning these points as they imagin they haue attained the truth As for me it is not my purpose at this time to censure others in this iudging world but only I thought good to speak thus much by the way seeing it is not quite besides my intended scope as touching our Tabacco The iuyce of Tabacco boyled in sugar to the forme of a syrupe and inwardly taken driueth forth worms of the belly if withall a leafe bee layed to the nauell It cureth also the Piles and the Dropsie An Vnguent for a Dropsie Rec. Succorum sanae sanctae Indorum ℥ viij Cortic. med Sambuci Chamomillae Tithymali ana ℥ ij Succi violarum Radicum Cucumeris agrestis Mercurialis macis Laureolae Colchici Anglici Fellis tauri Aloes hepaticae ana ℥ iij. Diagredij vnc jss Cum olei oliuar lib. iij. Cerae albae lib. j. Fiat vnguentums artem An Emplaster for the same Rec. Stercoris vaccini Sterco Caprini ana ℥ viij Macerentur per hor as vj. in acet● vini albi siccantor Tum Rec. aluminis rochae Salis nig torrefac Sulphuris flaui ana ℥ ij Succi tabaci ℥ vj. Foliorum Soldanellae vnc jss Seminum Anisi Foeniculi Carui ana vnc j. Farinae lupinorum Orobi ana vnc j. Terebinthinae vnc ij Picis naualis vnc xij Axungiae porcinae vnc iiij Fiat Emplastrums artem Syrupus optimus ad Hydropicos Rec. Foliorum sanae sanctae Indorum m. vj. Hyssopi sicci Pulegij regaelis Ceterach seu asplenij anam j. ss Calamenti minoris p. ij Seminum Anisi Seminum vrtica Sem. Anethi ana ʒiij Galangae Hellebori albi ana ʒiiijss Asari Agarici ana ʒij Rad. Angelicae hortensis Rad. iridis Costi Amomi Polipodij quercini ana ℥ j. Let all these be beaten to powder and infused in six pintes of the sharpest wine vineger for three daies space in the open sunne in a glasse vessell Afterwards boyle them in a double vessell with a gentle fire to the consumption of the halfe then straine them and adde to them of Mel rosarum l. j. Sacchari l. ss Boyle them againe to the consumption of the vineger and aromatize it with saffron ginger and mace ana ℈ ij Fiat Syrupus secundum artem A conuenient purge in a Dropsie Rec. Seminum sanae sanctae Indorum ʒj Rhabarb ʒss Diagridij gr ij Syrupi ros sol cum agarico ℥ j. cum aqua destillati tabaci quantum sufficit Fiat potio Detur post digestionem conuenientem An excellent Sacculus to discusse winde to remooue the colicke and is very effectuall in a tympanie Rec. Foliorum san sanct Indorum p. iiij Florum Chamaemelorum Summitatum anethi ana p. j. Cymini Cari ana ℥ ss Baccarum Lauri ʒiij Make two bagges of all these being quilted or interbasted so that they may couer the most part of the belly Tabacco is a present remedy for

vnlesse it came from Egypt Arabia China or India Surely vnlesse there were some wilde wo me in our braines or that we we were bewitched and possessed with some furie we would not so farre be in loue with forraine wares or be so much besotted as to seeke for greedy new Physicke and physicall meanes considering that one poor plant tabacco wil being rightly vsed do more good for the stanching of bloud the curation of wounds and vlcers the hindring of sanies slime or slough to grow in any sore to abate and quench swellings and paines to conglutinate and consolidate wounds more than a cart-load of Bole fetched out of Armenia Sarcocolla Sandaracha or that earth which is so much nobilitated by the impresse of a seale and therefore called Terra Sigillata the clay of Samos the durt of Germanie or the loame of Lemnos For Tabacco hath a moderat adstriction it soldereth ioyneth and closeth vp wounds nor suffering any rotten or filthy matter to remaine long in them And in regard of these excellent vertues and qualities it quickly cureth bleeding at the nose the Haemorrhoides and other bloudie fluxes whether of the opening of the mouthes of the veines their apertions breakings or any other bloody euacuation that too much aboundeth being either giuen by it selfe alone in some wine either inwardly or outwardly or commixed with the bloud-stone Crocus Martis and other the like remedies fit for the same intentions Laurentius Ioubertus describeth an Vnguent which is of singular force made of Tabacco for the curation of wounds scabbes and the disease called Scrophules or the Kings euill yea for that same knottie scourge of rich men and the scorne of Physicians I meane the gowt which as som learned men hold opinion can by no means be remedied yet feeleth mitigation and diminution of paine and curation also onely by this admirable medicine whose description in this place I will rightly set downe and thus it is Rec. Foliorum san sanct Indorum l. ij Axungiae porcinae recentis diligenter lotae l. j. The hearbe being stamped or brused let it be infused a whole night in red wine in the morning boyle it with a gentle fire with the axunge to the consumption of the wino Then straine it very hardly and that being done adde to it of the iuyce of Sanae sanctae Indorum l. ss Resinae abiegnae vnc iiij Boyle them againe to the consumption of the iuyce and toward the end of the boyling adde to it of The roots of Aristolochia rotunda in powder vn ij New wax so much as is sufficient So make it vp into the forme of an vnguent If you would haue this Vnguent in the forme of a Cerote then encrease the weight of the waxe and you haue your desire Truth the daughter of Time hath brought to light that Tabacco strangely cureth olde vlcers or sores and mortifications or gangrenes if the iuyce of the leaues bee dropped vpon the places and the leaues first bruised and applyed thereon without any other curious application or anxious mixture the bodie being first purged and the redundant peccant humours being first duly euacuated by the aduise of some learned Physician and a veine opened if so be it be thought needfull with keeping of a strict and orderly kinde of diet for Nullum est tam potens medicamentum quod praestare eam quam pollicetur opem potest si ratione victus aut perturbetur aut non adiuuetur There is no medicine so effectuall or of such sufficient vertue onely by it selfe to cure any disease and to expell sicknesse and restore to health if by the order of diet regiment of life it bee either hindred or not somewhat helped Furthermore it is found by long practise that it is very auaileable and effectuall not onely for the cure of vlcers in men but also in brute beasts for throughout all India strange and many sores doe plague their oxen and other cattell which by reason of the exceeding and super-abundant moisture of the countrey doe putrefie and swarme with wormes on which poore beasts they were wont heretofore to insperge sublimatum being destitute of better remedies and because the price of this was at a verie hie rate in those places it oftentimes so fell out that the medicine cost more than the silly beast which was to bee cured was adiudged to be worth Wherefore hauing experimented the faculties and properties of Tabacco in men they transferred the vse thereof to the curation of rotten stinking and such corrupt soares of beastes as were full of crawling wormes and they quickly found that the iuyce of the hearb being dropped into the place did not onely kill worms but also clense and mundifie the vlcers and afterwards bring them to perfect cicatrization and for the same cause the Americans euer carrie about them some of the powder of it I know a certain man that had an vlcer in his nose out of which there issued forth a virulent or filthy matter or sanies not without great suspicion of some contagion or infectious sicknesse who by mine aduise dropped in som of the iuyce of the leaues of Tabacco and when hee had done so twise together a great many wormes first came forth and after that fewer and lastly after a fewe dayes the sore was absolutely cured and no wormes neuer after that issued forth yet the parts that were consumed and eaten away could neuer againe by any art bee throughly restored This plant being hot and drie in the second degree as some would haue it doth by meanes thereof vndoubtedly purge and cleanse and so it may heale either vlcera putrida aceorrosiua in naribus and Noli me tangere so named because it resembleth as some imagine a curst shrew that must not be touched when she is angrie for then she will be Calcata immitior hydrâ therefore I suppose it is not good to wake an angrie dog and when a mischiefe is well quieted and brought asleep it is good to goe your waies and say neuer a word The new-found Alchymists of our time take vpon them to make quialibet ex quolibet weauing and vnweauing daily the lucklesse webbe of Penelope without either reason for their misterie or great reward for their labour and yet Iohannes Liebaultius writeth that there are which destill water of the greene leaues of Tabacco in alymbecke of glasse which water is no lesse singular in all effects and passions then the verie iuyce helping all wounds soares and bruses euen restoring to men which by some aduenture or by some poysonous malignitie and vapour haue lost their nailes new ones by washing that part with the water destilled and after wrapping them vp in fine linnen clothes dipt in the water So that it is no maruaile if the people of the new-found world which we commonly call the West Indies doe make such hie reckoning of this hearb for there are found diuers populous nations in farre differing clymates that liued for the