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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    03] a tidci that overflows all the banks and bounds of order i For, the {pints of mans body, thofe agent's in each faculty, ad fnaoothly* regularly and confhntly, with a moderate fupply •, but being over¬ charged, and forced out of their natural courfc, and exercife of their duty, by the large addition offurious fpirits \ fpurs the fundi- ons into firange diforders, as if nature were conHiding with death and diffolution } but yet it proves not mortal # And this, firft, becaufe thefe adventitious fpirits are amicable and friendly to our bodies in their own nature, and thereforenot fo deadly injurious, as that which is not fo familiar or noxious-. Secondly, Becaufe they are very volatile, light, and aciive \ Na¬ ture therefore does much fooner recover her felf, iranfpires and fends forth the overplus received ; then if the morbific^ matter were more ponderous and fixed j the gravamen from thence would be much worfe and longer in removing; as an over-charge of Meat, Bread, Fruit, or fuch like fubftances not fpirituous; but dull and heavy (comparative) is of more difficult digefiion, and layes a greater and more dangerous load upon the faculties, having not fuch volatile brisk fpirits to affift Nature, nor of fo liquid a fine fubfiance, of quicker and eafier digefiion: So that the fymptoms from thence are much more dangerous, then thofc -perscute differs- pers ari ling from Liquors. So like wife thofe bad fymptoms in other Difeafes are more to be feared and accounted mortal (then t[je like ari ling from drunh^nnefs) becaufe thofe perhaps depend upon 'malig¬ nant caufes \ or fuch as by time are radicated in the body ; or from the defection of fome principal pyn't: but the florm and difeompo- fure anting from drurihgnnefs, as it is fnddenly raifed , to common¬ ly it foon falls, depending upon benign caufes, and a fpirituous mat¬ ter, that layes not fo great an opprellion > but inebriates the fpirits, that they adl very diforderly and unwontedlyVor by the foporifi- w. vertuc, ftupefies them for a time, until! they recover' their > agility again. But all this while, I do not fee, that to be drunks once amoneth, ffiould prove good Phyfick: all! think that can be faid in this behalf, is ^ that by overcharging the Stomach,vomitingis procured •> and fo carries off fomething that was lodged there, which might breed ; Difeafes. This is a bad excufe for good Fellows, apd a poor plea for drun- kgnnefr: for the gaining of one fuppofed benefit (which might be obtainedotherwifej you introduce]twenty inconveniencesbyit.t I d© , » /