 ... stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief,...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 8081897Full view - About this book
 | Agricultural History Society - 1923 - 148 pages
...smoking " by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale," as " a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health — hellish, devilish, and...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." In the latter decades of the sixteenth century smoking became less fashionable and general. Yet, in... | |
 | 1885 - 882 pages
...abused by most men, which take it as thinkers do ale, 'tis a pl-ague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. " Stearns in concluding his chapter on tobacco in "Insanity, its cause and prevention," says: 1. "It... | |
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