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from a Te/lilence. 1 1 5 the well found vaft Benefit from it, imlefs they who ufed it too intemperately :, many indeed medicated it with various Alexifhar~ mick Similes. I T remains that we now fay fomewhat concerning the Ule of Tobacco, whole Ver- tues for this Purpofe are extreamly cried up by Diemebrooeck, and fome others } but whether we regard the narcotick Quality of this American Henbane - 7 or the poifonous Oil which exhales from it in Smoaking; or that prodigious Discharge of Spittle which it occafions, and which Nature wants for many other important Occafions; or, laitly the Exercife it gives to the Lungs in drawing it befides the Aptitude of the pefti ential Poifon to be taken down along with it, and the Irkibmenefs of its Scent - 7 I murr. confefs my felf at Uncertainties about it •, though as to my felf, I am its profelfed Enemy, and was accuftomed to fupply its Place as an Antidote with Sack. W E now then come to external Reme- dies, amongft which Amulets, and Characters, demand the firft Notice: It mull indeed be granted, that it is no new Cuflom or Contrivance to hang thefe Charms, made P 4 various