 ... 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
 | 1904 - 916 pages
...medicinally used; but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purge of goods, lands,...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Urticaria.— BUEGESB recommends: R Hydr. chlor. corrosive grs. ii Chlorof ormi M. xx Glycerini oz.... | |
 | 1912 - 768 pages
...medicinally used; but as it is most commonly abused by most men, who take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purge of goods, lands,...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." Burton really preaches moderation; but who can draw a general dividing line between moderation and... | |
 | 1906 - 826 pages
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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 800 pages
...commonly abused by most men, who take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish, and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." The controversy, as many contemporary allusions testify, was as keen at that time as it is at the present... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1914 - 480 pages
...commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned...tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul." IT has long been more or less proverbial that , icans cannot drink without getting drunk; an the Americans... | |
 | 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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