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and of a strong scent, but not aromatical ; which they 

 take, beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can 

 drink it : and they take it, and sit at it in their coffa- 

 houses, which are like our taverns. This drink com- 

 forteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. 

 Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the 

 leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy (opium), of which 

 the Turks are great takers (supposing it expelleth all 

 fear), do all condense the spirits, and make them 

 strono- and aWer. But it seemeth they were taken 



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after several manners ; for coffa and opium are taken 

 down, tobacco but in smoke, and betel is but champed 

 in the mouth with a little lime. It is like there are 

 more of them, if they were well found out, and well 

 corrected. Quaere of henbane-seed ; of mandrake ; of 

 saffron, root and flower ; of folium indum ; of amber- 

 grise ; of the Assyrian amomum, if it may be had ; 

 and of the scarlet powder which they call kermez ; and 

 (generally) of all such things as do inebriate and pro 

 voke sleep. Note that tobacco is not taken in root or 

 seed, which are more forcible ever than leaves. 



Experiment solitary touching paintings of the body. 

 739. The Turks have a black powder, made of a 

 mineral called alcohole, which with a fine long pencil 

 they lay under their eye-lids ; which doth colour them 

 black ; whereby the white of the eye is set off more 

 white. 1 With the same powder they colour also the 

 hairs of their eye-lids, and of their eye-brows, which 

 they draw into embowed arches. You shall find that 

 Xenophon maketh mention, that the Medes used to 

 paint their eyes. The Turks use with the same tinct- 



1 Sandys, p. 53. 



