Organon salutis an instrument to cleanse the stomach : as also divers new experiments of the virtue of tobacco and coffee, how much they conduce to preserve humane health / by W.R. ...

TO My Worshipfull and much Honored Friend, Sir HENRY BLOUNT Knight.

SIR,

MY miseries (in matter of my health) made me in my old age (being now seventy two yeers old) to re∣member what I learned in my youth at School, in reading of Tullies Office, (that is) after taking no∣tice of my own body, to observe what did doe me good, or harm, before I should use the help of Physitians: this made me to collect what I have written in this Book, for mine own private use. Many of my friends urged me to leave the same to be

printed for the benefit of others; which I was loath to doe, in respect it is a Novelty, not prescribed by others, untill I understood by you, that it was well accepted in foreign parts by persons of great quality and knowledge, which came by the same Relations of yours unto them. I late∣ly understood that your discovery, in your excellent Book of Travels, hath brought the use of the Turkes Physick, of Cophie in great request in England, whereof I have made use, in another form than is used by boyling of it in Turkie, and being less loathsome and trouble∣some; wherefore I thought meet to send this Book to you, and to referre it to your Iudgement, whether it be fit to be published in print. If you let it to passe under your protection, I little care what others speak of it, and rest

Sir,

your loving Friend and Servant W••. Rumsey.