Everaerts [Everard], Giles [Gilles]

Panacea; Or The Universal Medicine,Being A Discovery of the Wonderfull Vertues Of Tobacco Taken in a Pipe, With Its Operation and Use both in Physick and Chrurgery

      London:: Simon Miller,, 1659.. First Edition in English.. Modern antique-style spotted calf, blind rules, wormtrack in upper margin, finger-soiling, t.p. darkened, light dampstains. A good copy of a scarce work.. Small 8vo.. Lacks frontis. Everard's work was first published in Latin in 1587. It was the first work entirely devoted to tobacco. He added to Monardes' list of diseases to such an extent that tobacco came to be regarded by many as the great universal medicine. Everard even implied that it was such a cure-all that there would be less need for physicians. "It is no great friend to physicians, though it be a physical plant; for the very smoke of it is held to be a great antidote against all venome and pestilential diseases."#11;This volume comprises translations of Everard's De herba panacea, part of Neander's Tabacologia, and some passages from L'Ecluse's edition of Monardes.#11;"J.R. (the translator) endowed his compilation with an individual interest by his 'Epistle Dedicatory' to seventeen of the gentry and 'To all the worthy Merchants and Planters of Tobacco, for and in the West-Indies, and America.' It is probable that the gentlemen to whom the 'Epistle' is addressed were participants in the tobacco trade and that they subsidized this publication as a commercial venture." [Arents Cat.] Wing E3550. ESTC r1871. Wellcome II,537. Krivatsy/NLM 3748. Arents 271. Sabin 23216. Tomason E3530.