> For Tobacco being a common herbe, which (though under divers names) growes
almost every where, was first found out by some of the barbarous Indians,
to be a Preservative, or Antidot against the Pockes, a filthy disease,
whereunto these barbarous people are (as all men know) very much subject,
what through the uncleanly and adust constitution of their bodies, and what
through the intemperate heate of their Climat: so that as from them was
first brought into Christendome, that most detestable disease, so from them