OLD RECIPES. 241 



" Another Sternutamentorie : — 



Bee. Foliorum siccorum tabaci 3'ijss. 

 Zingiberis. 

 Pyretbri, ana 3iss. 

 Eadicum Hellebori albi, grana 6 

 Pulverisata commisceantur, et fiat sternutamentorium 

 Ex fistula naribus parum infletur. 



" These sternutatories which are very forcible, vehe- 

 ment, and strong ; as Euphorbium, Helleborus albus, 

 and the like to these, must not be blown up into the 

 head, but rather put into a boxe, the same being a 

 little shaken, and so holding it to the nose, to draw up 

 a little at once. But Tabacco is not so violent, and 

 therefore may in my judgment bee safely put in 

 practise. Thus then you plainely see that all medi- 

 cines, and especially tobacco, being rightly and ration- 

 ally used, is a noble medicine, and contrariwise not in 

 his due time with other circumstances considered, it 

 doth no more than a nobleman's shooe doth in healing 

 the gout in the foot." 



One other, and less pleasant mode of using the herb 

 as a sternutatory is thus described by a later author : 

 — " It is sometimes taken in little longish pellets put 

 up the nose, where it is found to produce very good 

 effects, to attract a deal of water, unload the head, 

 resolve catarrhs, and make a free respiration ; for the 

 subtile parts of the tobacco in inspiration are carried 

 into the trachea and lungs, where they loosen the 

 peccant humours adhering thereto, and promote ex- 

 pectoration. Some have left this tobacco in their 



