Cane Tobacco well dried, and taken in a cleane Pipe fasting, in a moist morning, du∣ring the Spring or Autumne, cureth the me∣grim, the toothache, obstructions procee∣ding of cold, and helpeth the fits of the Mo∣ther. After meales it doth much hurt, for it infecteth the braine and the liuer, as appeares in our Anatomies, when their bodies are ope∣ned, we finde their kidneyes, yea and hearts quite wasted: For as all other things, which God gaue for our necessities, are superfluously employed, apparell, meates, drinkes, and such like: so this Indian weede, whose proper vse is to purge the body of thin water, which we call distillations or slender rheumes, and that in medicine manner in moist weather. I say, Tobacco is mightily abused, & by the Di∣uels temptations turned to Bacchanalian beast∣ly custome, to serue Tosse-pots in stead of salt meates, caueare, and other enducements or drawers on of drinks. Sometimes our swag∣gering
Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.
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- Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour.
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- Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.
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"Approved directions for health, both naturall and artificiall deriued from the best physitians as well moderne as auncient. Teaching how euery man should keepe his body and mind in health: and sicke, how hee may safely restore it himselfe. Diuided into 6. sections 1. Ayre, fire and water. 2. Meate, drinke with nourishment. 3. Sleepe, earely rising and dreames. 4. Auoidance of excrements, by purga. 5. The soules qualities and affections. 6. Quarterly, monethly, and daily diet. Newly corrected and augmented by the authour." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14298.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.
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cast-awayes take it after the exam∣ple of Politicians to temporize and dally away the time, that they might rest in their coun∣terfeit traunce, when they want matter of discourse, vntill after a thorough perambula∣tion of their barren wits, they haue coyned some strange accident or aunswere worthie the rehearsall among their boone compani∣ons. Then after long houghing, halking, and hacking:
Mobile colluerint liquido cùm plasmate guttur,Hauing their throates well washt with dreg∣gish drugges.
They recount tales of Robin Hood, of Don∣zel del Phoebo, &c. as I haue else-where writ∣ten in my Preface to my first Circle of the Spi∣rit of Detraction. To conclude, the abuse of this forraine hearbe, I wish the Reader to ruminate and repeare ouer these moderne rythmes:
Tobacco that outlandish weed Doth spend the braine and spoile the seed. It dulls the spright, it dimmes the sight, It robs a woman of her right.