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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
tradition_n	drink_v	fire_n	scythian_n	15	3	15.5344	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38822	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.	Everard, Giles.	1659 (1659)	Wing E3530; ESTC R1871	56,313	160

companions doth not draw the smoke of it as through a tunnel by his mouth and Nostrils untill he be almost in an exstasie There are some of them who to take away weariness and to be refreshed in their labours make use of this smoke ●nd we found saith Monardes that by their example our servants and the Moors that came into the West-Indies from other parts would do the same for being weary by much le●ping and dancing they draw it in by their Mouth and Nostrils And the same thing be●als them as doth the Indians for they lye as if they were dead for three or foure houres after this they are lusty and are better able to endure labour than they were before And they take such delight in it that they will now and than go out of mens sight to take it in pleasure though they be not tired Sometimes they grow so mad by it that they will kill their Masters who are carefull to burn their Tobacco that they may take from them the occasion of this idle pleasure What need more words I saw saith Monardes our servants and the Moors who were not suffered to be drunk with Wine to make themselves drunk with this smoke wherein they take no small delight and they boast that it takes all wearinesse from them and that they suffer no hurt nor damage by taking of it Referre to this what Alexander ab Alexandr● l. 3. c. 11. hath left to Posterity that the Scythians when they desire to be drunk and abstain from Wine that they may not break the custome they cast bundles of Herbs into the fire and suck in the smoke and so become as drunk as if they had dranke Wine So it is a tradition concerning the Thracians that at their banquets they go about their fires casting the seeds of Herbs into the fire and the fume of that will make them like those that are drunk and they besotted as if they drank Wine even like those that tasted the juyce of Nepenthes who supposed sorrow to be removed by it Also the Babilonians would make themselves so drunk by burning fruits of Trees and drinking in the smoke that they would sing and dance After the same example the Indian Priests which they call Bulgiti being in consultation concerning the event of any business were wont to drink the smoke of Tobacco to make themselves mad and to enquire of the Divel concerning any business For the Indians were not accustomed to make warre or to undertake any business of consequence but they would first enquire of the Devill what should be the successe of it who answered them by the Mouths of those lying Prophets made drunk with the smoke of Tobacco The Priest being consulted with did burn the dry Leaves of Tobacco and he drew the smoke into his mouth by a cane or tunnel as now a daies our Country Men do too much the more the pitty being made so drunk with the smoke untill he fell fast asleep being deprived of all his Senses and being rapt into a certain extasie he fell down upon the ground where he lay most part of the day or night not able to move when his drunkenness was over he told them he had conferred with the Devil and as he thought so he delivered his mind Whether they should wage warre or not or undertake a journey and so he gave answers for all things they asked him of yet so doubtfull that let the event be what it would he could easily perswade the ignorant multitude that he fore-told it and thus he miserably deluded these barbarous people Also the Indian Physicians made drunk with this smoke and having lost their senses would relate a thousand things concerning the counsel of the gods and then they three or four times rubbed the sick Patients body with their hands In the mean time they held a bone in their mouth which the simple women afterwards kept as a relique Being demanded concerning a disease they answered all things to be well if it fell out otherwise they had their excuse ready the disease was mortal and it was a capital crime for them to neglect their ordinary customes Thus the enemy of mankind was wont to deceive the Gentiles In some places the same men were both their Physicians and their Priests But since the Effects of Tobacco are found to be so excellent I shall discourse of them more particularly In Distillations where a cold matter is the cause make a Fumigation of the dry leaves of Tobacco The Syrup of it is excellent for this will wonderfully stay Defluxions of Rheum The leaves chewed or bruised in the palate do the same These melt the flegme that is in the head and dry up the cels where the Rheum lieth by drawing forth the moisture from the foremost ventricles of the brain by that part which is commonly called the Tunnel I know not whether there can be a more happy or more certain Remedy found out for this purpose Also to strengthen the memory the smoke is excellent taken by the Nostrils for it is properly belonging to the brain and it is easily conveyed into the cels of it and it cleanseth that from all filth for the brain is the Metropolis of flegme as Hippocrates teacheth us in his book concerning the Kernels it must be taken three hours before meat for so it doth more conveniently discuss and cleanse the peccant humours I do not write this for their sake who by their daily miscarriage abuse themselves and spend good time in Tobacco-shops and make of their brain which is the most noble seat of the mind and the store-house of all knowledge and learning a chimney and a common shore and disgrace a Medicament that is otherwise very good and make themselves nothing but blowers of coles and ashes A famous Practitioner at Leyden D. Henricus Flor●ntius sometimes related unto me that Dr. Pauvius a most experienced and excellent Anatomist of his time had once a subject for his Anatomical practice whose smelling was quite lost and there was not any thing left to be seen of the Processus Mammillares And this he conjectured by good Arguments to have happened by reason of the parties immoderate drinking of Tobacco About thirty years since or before that smoaking Tobacco through the nose hath been suspected and spoken against as if the continual and over-using of it did fill the brain with all vapours and last of all did corrupt it Let us hear what the most learned Dr. Iustus Rapheiengius who deserved exceeding much amongst Scholars writ sometimes unto me His words were these I remember saith he that Dr. Pauvi●s in his first Anatomical practices dissected a strong young man and otherwise very sound whose brain was totally filled with black vapours like to soot D. Pauvius inquiring into the cause of that accident and referring it to Mania or some other disease of the head they answered that were acquainted with that