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with Eyebright, and gave the Water to one 
whofe Lungs had been fluffed, and he afth-? 
matick for fome Time, and it cured him. 
From France Tobacco foon reached Eng* 
land , and was as much efteemed. Upon a 
chemical Analyfis, it yields a large Quantity 
of acid Phlegm, Oil, and Earth, and a mo- 
derate Quantity of urinous Spirit and vola- 
tile Salt j its great Effe&s feem to arife from 
Sal-Armoniac, embarrafled with much grofs 
Sulphur. The firft Author who wrote of 
this Plant, was Charles Stephanas , in 1 564. 
This was a mean, fhort, inaccurate Draught, 
till Dr. John Seibault wrote a whole Dif- 
courfe of it next Year, and put it into his 
fecond Book of Hufbandry, which was 
every Year reprinted with Additions and 
Alterations, for twenty Years after. He had 
a large Correfpondence, a good Intelligence, 
wrote the beft of the Age, and gathered 
the greatefl Stock of Experience about this 
new Plant. In the Year 1587, Evartus 
wrote a fmall Treatife at Antwerp , called 
De Pana Reu, another new Name given to 
Tobacco Anno 1573. Monardus wrote up- 
on it only from the fmall Accounts he had 
pf it from the Brafilians x fince which Time 
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