ITS MEDICAL USES. 49 



as a sanatory by Apothecaries;* and we may here most 

 conveniently note some of the old medical recipes for 

 its use. Edmund Gardiner, in his Triall of Tohacco, 

 1610,f gives this recipe for persons with asthma, or 

 consumptive tendency : — 



Foliorum sana sancta Indorum. 



Styracis, 



Sandarachse. 



TerebenthiEe, 



Mastichis, ana partes equales. % 



Our author says " a medicine in the plague thus 

 prepared I should judge to be verie effectual," if taken 

 warm, and perspiration be induced : — 



Pulveris radicis Angelica Hortensis, vel sylvestris, 3J» 



Theriacee optima, 51? 3$. 



Aqua stillatitia, sana sancta Indorum, 3 iiij - 



Aceti optimi, 3ft. Misce. 



One more instance of the many given by our author, 



* In Middleton's Roaring Girl one asks an apothecary : "Have you any 

 good pudding tobacco, sir ? " (See also the extract from Dekker, p. 56.) 



+ The title is worth giving in full for its prolix detail of the contents of 

 the book : — " The Triall of Tobacco, wherein his worth is most worthily 

 expressed : as, in the name, nature, and qualitie of the same hearb ; his 

 special use in all Physicke, with the right and true use of taking it, as 

 well for the seasons and times, as also the complexions, dispositions, and 

 constitutions of such bodies and persons as are fittest ; and to whom it is 

 most profitable to take it." The author was an old man when he compiled 

 the book ; but he did it, he tells us, to supply the want of a proper know- 

 ledge of a plant "so much in use amongst Englishmen," 



X The Doctor notes the success attendant on a patient of his own, who 

 could scarcely breathe, and was given over by his physicians, but "was at 

 length counselled to take tobacco in fume : which he daily did, and only 

 by this way, by little and little, he recovered his former health and strength 

 of bodie." He also says : "a sirup made of the decoction of this herbe, 

 with sufficient sugar, and so taken in a very small quantitie, dischargeth 

 the breast from phlegmatic matter." 



