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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    . i>] ftupifie and drown both > by exceeding the former bounds, and running into excefs, fruftraHng thofe ends for which drink was1 appointed by Nature » converting this fupport. of” life and health, making it a procurer of ficknefs and untimely, death. Many fuch there are, who drink not to fatifie Nature, but force it down many times contrary to natural inclination i and when there is a reludbancy agiinlt it; as Drunkardsyhat pour in Liquor,not for love of thcdrin\, or that Nature requires it by thirfi-> but onely to '* maintain the mad froVicl>, and keep the Company from breaking up* Some to.excufe this intemperance, hold it as good Phyficto be drunk once a moneth, and plead for that liberty as a wholfome cuftome, and quote the authority of a famous Phyfician for it. Whether this Opinion be allowable, and to be admitted in the due Regiment for prefervation of Health , is fit to be exa- < mined. It is a Canon eftablifhed upon good reafon v that every thing ex-Omm ni- eeedingits ptft bounds, and golden mediocrity , is hurtful to Nature,™™ The befi of things are not excepted in this general rule i but are^^#. refirained and limited here to a due proportion. The fupports of life may provetheprocurers of death, if not qualified and made wholfome by this corrective. : Meat and drink^is no longer fuftenance, but a load and over¬ charge, if they exceed the quantum due to each particular per fan *, and then they .are not, what they are properly in themfelves, and by the appointmentxff Nature , the prefervatives of life and health* but the caufesofficknefs, and corifequently ol death. * Drinks was not appointed man, to difeompofe and diforder him in all his faculties, but to fupply, nourijh, and ftrengthen them. Drink exceeding its meafure, is no longer a refrefhment, to irri¬ gate and water the thirfiy body, but makes an inundation to drown and fuffocate the vital powers* It puts a man out of the fiate of health, and reprefents him in fuch a degenerate condition both in refpect of body and mind, that we may look up'On the man, as go ¬ ing out of the W'orld, becaufe he is already gone out of himf.lr, and ftrangely metamarphofed from what he was. I never knew ficknefs or a Difeafejo be good preventing Phyfick*, and to be drunk, is no other then air unfound date, and the whole body out of frame by this great change. . What difference is there between fictytefs and drunkgnnefs ? Truly ! cannot difiinguifh them * atterwife then as genus and fpecies: Drunkennefs bsing a raging • - Difeafe,