CURATIVE QUALITIES. OF 
To your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming yourself 
both in persons and goods, aud taking also thereby the notes 
and marks of vanity upon you by the custom thereof, makin 
yourselves to be wondered at by all, foreign civil nations an 
by all strangers that come among you, and’ be scorned, and 
contenimed ; a custom both fulsome to the eye, hateful to the 
nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the 
black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible 
Stigian smelle of the pit that is bottomless.” 
The supposed curative virtues of the tobacco plant had 
much to do with its use in Europe while the singular mode 
of exhaling through the nostrils added to its charms, and 
EXHALING THROUGH THE NOSE. 
doubtless led to far greater indulgence. Spenser in his Fairy 
Queen makes one of the characters include it with other 
herbs celebrated for medicinal qualities. 
“Into the woods thence-forth in haste she went, 
To seek for herbes that mote him remedy ; 
For she of herbes had great intendiment, 
Taught of the Nymph which from her infancy, 
Had nursed her in true nobility : 
There whether it divine Tobacco were, 
Or Panachz, or Polygony, 
She found and brought it to her patient deare, 
Who 7; this while lay bleeding out his heart-blood neare.” 
