240 SNUFF AND SNUFF-BOXES. 



Heine ; and snuff was for a long time a fashion with 

 the court-party, held in abomination by the Protest- 

 ants. The literary controversy was violent; some 

 physicians contended that, if it concealed a vicious 

 odour of the breath, it also injured the digestive power: 

 while some theologians affirmed that it inspired con- 

 temptuous feelings, by inducing indolence. 



Examples of recipes used by old physicians, when 

 tobacco was considered in the light of a medicinal 

 herb, may be found in Neander: we have given some 

 specimens, in our quotations from the English Doctor 

 Edmund Gardiner's Triall of Tobacco (1610), see p. 49; 

 we will now quote from the latter what he recommends 

 in the way of snuffs. He prefaces his remarks by 

 saying :— - 



" Sternutatories, especially those which are made of 

 tabacco, being drawne up into the nostrels, cause 

 sneesing, consuming and spending away grosse and 

 slimie humors from the ventricles of the braine. 

 These kind of remedies must needes doe good where 

 the brain is repleat with many vapours, for those that 

 have a lethargy, or vertiginy, in all long griefes, paines 

 and aches of the head, in continuall senselesses, or 

 benumming of the braine, and for a hicket that pro- 

 ceedeth of repletion." 



The following is one of his specifics : — 



Rec. Piperis, 



Zinziberis, ana Q'u 



Pyrethri, 



Foliorum siccorum tabaci 3'ij. 



Trita naribus iuspirentur ante cibum. 



