Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging.

  • Seager, H. W. (Herbert West), 1848-
Date:
1896
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Credit: Natural history in Shakespeare's time : being extracts illustrative of the subject as he knew it / Made by H. W. Seager, M. B., &c. Also pictures thereunto belonging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    second extenuates, and makes meagre the body extra- ordinarily. Of its own nature not sophisticate, it cannot be but a sovereign leaf for external maladious ulcers ; and so it is for cacochymical bodies, and for the consumption of the lungs, and tisic, if it be mixed with colt's-foot dried. But as it is intoxicated and tainted with bad admixture, I must answer as our learned Paracelsus did, of whom my self did demand, whether a man might take it without impeachment to his health ; who replied, as it is used, it must needs be very pernicious in regard of the immoderate and too ordinary whiff; for it will evacuate the stomach and purge the head for the present of many feculent and noisome humours, but after by his attractive virtue it proveth Ccccias humorum, leaving two ponds of water (as he termed them) behind it, which are converted into choler. one in the ventricle, another in the brain. And seeing every nasty and base Tigellus use the pipe, as infants their red corals, ever in their mouths, and many besides of more note and esteem take it more for wantonness than want, as Gerard speaks, I could wish that our generous spirits could pretermit the too usual, not omit the physical drink- nig or It. Walkington, Optic Glass of Humours, pp. 105-7. [There were different sorts of Tobacco. Roll Trinidado, leaf and pudding, are mentioned in Dekkers Gull's Horn- book.] This is my friend Abel, an honest fellow. He lets me have good Tobacco, and he does not Sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil, Nor washes it in muscadel and grains. Nor buries it in gravel underground Wrapp'd up in greasy leather, or piss'd clouts, But keeps it in fine lily pots, that, opened. Smell like conserve of roses, or French beans. He has his maple block, his silver tongs, Winchester pipes, and fire of juniper. Be'// yo//so//, The Alchemist, i. 3. Three pence a pipe-ful I will ha' made of all my whole half pound of Tobacco, and a quarter of a pound of colts- foot, mixed with it too, to eke it out. I/>id., Bartholomew Fair ii. 2.