I felt had to share this wonderful snippet from the book I'm currently browsing.
On the chapter on Peru we have the following thoughts on the tobacco plant...
"Here is also great store of Tobacco, which though in some respect, being moderately taken, may be serviceable for Physicke: yet besides the consumption of the purse, the impairing of your inward parts; the immoderate, vaine, and phantasticall abuse of the hellish weed, corrupteth the naturall sweetnesse of the breath, stupefieth the braine, and is indeed so prejudiciall to the generall esteeme of our Countrey-men, that one saith of them [long Latin sentence]. The two chiefe virtues ascribed to it are; that it is good for Lues Venerea, that loathsome disease, the pox, and that it voideth rhewme [rheum].
This unsavoury drug was first brought hither, by the Marriners of Sir Francis Drake anno. 1585. It may be an antidote to the immoderate use of drinking, which our Belgian souldiers brought with them, 3 yeares before, from the Low Countries: before which time, of all Northerne people, the English were deemed most free from that swinish vice.
I can only wonder if the writer is referring to an early form of Latakia
Regards,
Jay.
On the chapter on Peru we have the following thoughts on the tobacco plant...
"Here is also great store of Tobacco, which though in some respect, being moderately taken, may be serviceable for Physicke: yet besides the consumption of the purse, the impairing of your inward parts; the immoderate, vaine, and phantasticall abuse of the hellish weed, corrupteth the naturall sweetnesse of the breath, stupefieth the braine, and is indeed so prejudiciall to the generall esteeme of our Countrey-men, that one saith of them [long Latin sentence]. The two chiefe virtues ascribed to it are; that it is good for Lues Venerea, that loathsome disease, the pox, and that it voideth rhewme [rheum].
This unsavoury drug was first brought hither, by the Marriners of Sir Francis Drake anno. 1585. It may be an antidote to the immoderate use of drinking, which our Belgian souldiers brought with them, 3 yeares before, from the Low Countries: before which time, of all Northerne people, the English were deemed most free from that swinish vice.
I can only wonder if the writer is referring to an early form of Latakia
Regards,
Jay.