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not only cures Ulcers, Sores, and Eruptions 
on the Skin, but kills all Worms, Maggots, 
Vermine, or Lice on the Body. A paralytic 
Limb or Part well fweated, and then bathed 
and fomented with a Decodtion of Tobacco, 
has often been reftored. Its Juice or green 
Leaf applied to the Stinging of Netties, 
cures it. 
As Excefs, either in Smoaking or Snuf- 
fing, is injurious ; yet that of the former is 
much more fo, both as ’tis an Inlet to other 
Vices, and Regardleffnefs of Time, Money, 
Bufinefs, and Family, and deprives the Bo- 
dy of its Saliva, a Juice fo neceflary for Di- 
lution, Commixion, Digeftion, Guftation, 
Undulation of the Voice, diftindt and clear 
Pronunciation, by moiftening all the Parts 
of the Mouth and Throat, and preventing 
their Drynefs and Thirft, &c. neither does 
the improper or exceflive Ufe of Snhff want 
its Inconveniencies ; for it may harm the 
Sight, impair the Smell, and often occafion 
a Sniveling in Speaking : I have known a 
monftrous Excefs in it caufe an Apoplexy ; 
and I have feen exceflive Snuffers when dy- 
ing, have a ftrong, brown Lee run con- 
ftantly from their Nofe, fome Days before 
their Death. And Hoffman fays, that the 
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