Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos.

  • James I, King of England, 1566-1625
Date:
1672
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Credit: Two broad-sides against tobacco / the first given by King James ... his Counterblast to tobacco. The second transcribed out of ... Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his treatise of the scurvy. To which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking: taken out of ... the same author ... With a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's Treatise of bloud; against smoking tobacco. Also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards ... by Mr. Samuel Ward. Concluding with two poems against tobacco [by J. Sylvester] and coffee [by G. Wither?]. Collected and published ... by J[ohn] H[ancock] Philanthrōpos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' [**] * \ . :J: J pborijM, ftrong elaborations of the fubfequent digeftions > and for this rea^ • . fon in part,the Scurvy is procured hereby. Some take Tobacco for refrefliment after labour, and divertife- I ment of ferious thoughts, being tired with bufinefs, ftudy and mu¬ ling. True it is, Tobacco puts a fufpenlion upon ferious thoughts, . and gives a relaxation for a time in fome perfons > others contem¬ plate, and run over their bulinefs with more delight, by the help < and duringthe taking of a Pipe: But both thefe perfons though feemingly delighted and refrefhed for a Ihort time, yet afterwards the Spirits are lalfated and tired, and are more flat, dull and fomno- lent, when the Pipe is out this was but a cheat,the Spirits were not truly relrefhed, invigorated and reinforced s as Wine does enliven and make brisk the Spirits, by affording and communicating am additional fupply > but by the fume of Tobacco the Spirits are a little inebriated and agitated by an other motion then their own, which is a feeming refrefliment, and fliort, not real, fubfUntial and lading.' Others plead for Tobacco, and take it as a Remedy againfl: Rheume, becaurfe a great dryer and exhaufter of fuperfluous Moi- iture. To evince the Error of this Opinion, -eonfider what is the caufe whereby Rheumes and crude moilturein the Body do abounds and then you will plainly fee, whether fmoking Tobacco be a pro¬ per or likely Remedy to prevent or oppofe it. Phlegm and fuperflu¬ ous moifluredoes arifeand abound in the Body, from a deficiency and debility of the Digeflions, as alfo impediment or impotency of the ex pul live faculty, that the remainders after digeftion be net tranfmitted by the common dudfures* Now this fume of To¬ bacco gives no Roboration, adds.no ftrength to the digeftive facul¬ ties , having no fymbolical qualities to comply with, and afim them, is very plain. Alfo that reparation and expulfion oi fuper- fluous moitture by this fume, is not promoted and tranfmitted through the more commodiousdudures and paffages appointed by nature for emiffion, onely a falivation by the mouth is procured, which brings no advantage, but detriment i for this Flux ot moi- fture doth not arife as critical, from the impullton of Nature, iepa- riting and protruding', but from a promifeuous attraction of fluid moifture, (by vertue of its acrimonious heat,) as well the laudable* uti'l fuccus, as the degenerated and fuperfluous i fo that conttant- ly draining the Body of this dulcid ferofity, muft caufe many in- cenvenienries through the want ot it, in as much as_it is very ferviceablg