The Early English Tobacco Trade

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K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1926 - 195 sider

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Side 46 - And is it not a great vanity, that a man cannot heartily welcome his friend now, but straight they must be in hand with tobacco ? No, it is become in place of a cure, a point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of tobacco...
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Side 30 - ... of too long continuance, in short time breaketh them ; whereby their bodies are notably preserved in health, and know not many grievous diseases wherewithall we in England are oftentimes affected.
Side 12 - ... of it, and then put it in one of the ends of the said Cornet or pipe, and laying a cole of fire upon it, at the other end...
Side 31 - ... and into the water: so a weare for fish being newly set up, they cast some therein and into the aire: also after an escape of danger, they cast some into the...
Side 30 - There is an herb which is sowed apart by itself, and is called by the inhabitants Uppowoc: In the West Indies it hath divers names, according to the several places and countries where it groweth, and is used: the Spaniards generally call it Tobacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder: they use to take the fume or smoke thereof, by sucking it through pipes made of clay, into their...
Side 9 - There is here great store of tobacco, which the salvages call apooke; howbeit yt is not of the best kynd, yt is but poore and weake, and of a byting tast, yt growes not fully a yard above ground, bearing a little yellowe flower, like to hennebane, the leaves are short and thick, somewhat round at the upper end...
Side 20 - XXXII, p. 49. very desirous of this parfume, although that the first use thereof is not without danger, before that one is accustomed thereto, for this smoke causeth sweates and weaknesse even to fall into ' syncope ' which I have tried in my selfe.
Side 28 - The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and therewith they live four or five days without meat or drink. And this all the Frenchmen used for this purpose; yet do they hold opinion withal that it causeth water and phlegm to void from their stomachs.
Side 28 - In these daies the taking in of the smoke of the Indian herbe called ' Tabaco ' by an instrument formed like a little ladell, whereby it passeth from the mouth into the hed and stomach, is gretlie taken-up and used in England, against Rewmes and some other diseases ingendred in the longes and inward partes, and not without effect.

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