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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    1 j>8] lefs lorae Peoples Breat h doth exceedingly faint the Air. to the great annoyance of otherst r* c 3. I condemn not medicinal appropriation and application of this Drug, fori know it to be of excellent Vertue : There is great difference, Inter diUumfectmdum quid&di{htm fimpliciter between the cenfure of any thing as abfolutely evil, and the indirect pra&ife oi it : Moreover, what is one man’s Meat, may be anothers Poyfon. / . 'r: ^4. The generality of fmoking it in fome places, without thofe ill effects we find, doth not at all fruftrate my aflertion: Fori have obrerved a more moderate courle of life in Diet, the soodnefs oi 'he Air, with an hereditary Cuftome, hath in great meafure bal- lanced the nocument or inconveniences, which otherwife thev would have con traded by excefs thereof * neither arethde nume¬ rous Tobacconifts acquitted from this evil, as it appears by thofe frequent eruptions in the skin, whereby a greater mifchief is pre¬ vented within, they being only efflorefcences of a fcorbutical Dra- vity. ■ . T^fre,afe>a,s 1 apprehend two principal Reafims to be given,why this Weed hath captivated fo many Thoufands in fuch fort that they become meer Slaves to it. ’ One is, the feeming delight it affords in the prefent taking there¬ of, inducing a pleafing bewitching melancholy, exceedingly afle&- mg their Fancies, fo that they could wifti with him in the Poet, Hie furor, ofuperi, fit mibi perpetuus, O that I might alwayes thus melancholize s not confidering though the Prologue bechearful the Epilogue is often fad > though the Spirits are as it were titilla¬ ted, and charmed into a fweet complacency for a ftiort fpace > yet afterward ajdulnefs, gloominefs, feizes upon them y indeed, how can it be otherwife, feeing they are but forcibly lulled into thisfecure placid Condition, by that which is as far remote from the Vitals as the Beams of the Sun are from a black Cloud. ...1 cn,d inthis Smoke> a ftinking, refunding, condenfing Opiate- like Sulphur, and an acrid Salt, profligating,extimulating, fo that by the bridling much of the one, and the exceflive fpurring of the other i the fpirits, like a free metalfome Horfe, are quite tired out at laft : It is impoffible that the frequent infinuations of this fub- til fume, making (hew of affinity, but quite of another tribe with the animals, (hould not at length (let a body be never fo ftrong.and cu (torn1 how ever prevalent) either pervert or fubvert his well con- 'ftuuted frame. * Another