48 TOBACCO IN EUROPE. 



Dyets Dry Dinner (12mo, 1599), treats of the virtues of 

 Tobacco as a digestive power : — 



Fruit, herbs, flesh, fish, whitemeats, spice, sauce, all 

 Concoct are by Tobacco's cordiall." 



He says lie names his book a dry dinner, not only 

 Caminum Prandium, without wine, but Accipritinum 

 without all drink except tobacco, which also is but dry 

 drink. That it was " translated out of India in the seede 

 or roote ; native or sative in our own fruitfullest soils. 

 It cureth any griefe, dolour, imposture, or obstruction 

 proceeding of colde or winde, especially in the head or 

 breast. The fume taken in a pipe is good against 

 Eumes, Catarrhs, hoarseness, ache in the head, 

 stomacke, lungs, breast : also in want of meate, drinke, 

 sleepe, or rest." 



" The name in India is piecelt, surnamed Tobacco 

 by the Spaniards of the He Tabaco. By their meanes 

 it spred farre and neare : but yet wee are not beholden 

 to their tradition. Our English Ulisses, renowned Syr 

 Walter Rawleigh, a man admirably excellent in Navi- 

 gation, of Natures privy counsell, and infinitely read 

 in the wide booke of the worlde, hath both farre fetcht 

 it, and deare bought it ; the estimate of the treasure I 

 leave to other; yet this all know, since it came in 

 request there hath bene Magnus fumi questus, and 

 Fumi-vendulus is the best Epithite for an Apo- 

 thecary." 



We shall meet with other instances of Tobacco sold 



