The so much Famed TABLETS. ONE of which at a time being only chewed or held in the Mouth, rolling it about with the Tongue, attracts by the Glandules of the Mouth, and evacuates by moderate and inoffensive Spitting all Defluxions of Rheum or obnoxious Humours that fall upon the Brain, Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth, Teeth, Throat, Lungs, etc. thereby wonderfully purging the Head and Brain, curing head-aches tho' never so violent or of long standing, Vertigoes, or Giddiness or Swimming, Lethargies, Epilepsies, Apoplexies, Palsies, Convulsions, weak Memories, Sore Eyes, Noise in the Head, Deafness or thickness of Hearing, Red Faces, sore, ulcered or cankered Mouths, sore Throats, etc. being daily used for some time. They Cure the Toothache in a few Moment's, render the Breath exceeding Sweet, tho' never so Strong or Stinking, and far beyond any Powder, Mouth-water or Gargoyle, make and keep the Teeth white, fast and sound, cleansing and preserving the Gums from the Scurvy, Soreness and Foulness, etc. They remove Catarrhs, Tickling, Phthisical or Ashmatical Coughs, whether from Colds or sharp Humours, which if not timely remedied, fall upon the Lungs and cause of consumptions. By a constant using them they attract and evacuate by Spitting, the Morbific Cause of Rheumatisms, Gouts, Sciatica's, and other Pains, King's-Evil Swell or Sores, Scurvies, Dropsies, Vapours, Melancholy, and many other chronic Distempers. They exceedingly sweeten the Blood and Juices, thereby conducing admirably to the Cure of Cancerous and other Swell, whether in the Breasts, Mouth or elsewhere, all running Sores, Ulcers, Fistula's, Itchings, Pimples, Scabs, Tetters, Leprosies, etc. in any part of the Body, answering all the ends, and saving the trouble and danger of Salivation, if used for a continuance, and that with great safety, without the least Pain or Disturbance whatsoever. They create an Appetite, and strengthen Digestion, beyond all the inward Medicines known in the World, as will immediately appear by only using one of them as foresaid for about an hour before eating, and the same after eating, for they bring off the watery phlegmatic Humours which lodge in the Stomach, depraving the Appetite, and cause Wind, Crudities and Indigestions. If one of them be used for about two hours, 'twill attract near a Pint of Rheum, and by Spitting out at any time the Tablet, the Flux immediately ceases, and the Mouth and Tongue not left hot, dry and furred, as with Tobacco, but cleansed, refreshed, and rendered cool, moist and pleasant, being therefore excellent to take off the Heat and Dryness of the Mouth, and extinguish Thirst in Fevers or otherwise. They vastly exceed the use of Tobacco either smoked or chewed, all your celebrated Snushes in Vogue, Errhines, Lozenges, or any the like means, performing in every respect beyond what 'tis possible for any of them to do, and that with far more Pleasantness, Safety and Ease. They are, of Chemical Preparation, a Secret lately found out ●y an Eminent Physician, being of an exceeding delightful Scent, and most charming Flavour in the Mouth, and as harmless, tasteless and small (only soft and flattish) as Peas, and may be used without hindrance of Business by the nicest Person, old or young, at any time of the day, not causing the least Offence or nauseating. Elderly Persons and others whose Teeth are lose or tender had better hold them in the Mouth, rolling them about with the Tongue, than chew them so much as others may whose Teeth are sound, which will draw forth the Rheum as well as if chewed. They are to be had only (by the Author's appointment) at Mr. Varenne's a Bookseller at the Sign of Seneca's Head near in the Strand, London, Price 3 s. 6 d. each Box, containing twenty Tablets. And since I have this fair opportunity I cannot but make use of it, in taking notice of the pernicious use of Snush as it is taken , it being become so A-la-mode, as that 'tis used by most without any Reason or Consideration, notwithstanding many Experiences confirm that Apoplexies (so Fatal of late) have been induced thereby; but Mankind is so infatuated to Fashions, and fond of Novelties, that they will not be persuaded off from a thing, tho' it be injurious to their Healths, and apparently brings along with it, it's own Danger and Ruin. It is too true that Apoplexies are now become as it were the Epidemic Distemper of all Nations where Snuff or Snush is taken, and I am very confident we have Forty seized with that Disease now, to One that was taken with it Forty or Fifty Years ago, it having been observed, that there is scarcely one in an hundred who die of Apoplexies, that has not been a Snush-taker: And that this Disease should affect the Snush-takers only, or them chief, is apparent, because by the constant and assiduous use of it, the thinner Juices of the Recriments of the Brain are continually separated and discharged through the Os Ethmoides or Strainers, which pass to the Nose and Mouth, leaving the thicker parts of the same behind, which not afterwards being able to pass through, stays to be increased by continual additions till the Augmentation becomes considerable; where still remaining and still increasing without probability of getting out (unless by the use of one particular sort of Snush now and then to be taken) the quantity at length comes to press upon the Meninge of the Brain, by which a grand Obstruction being made, an Apoplexy is forthwith induced. And I think this is evident not only by the Snush-takers of our own Nation who daily die of Apoplexies, but also those of Spain where Snush is most of all taken, and where Apoplexies are more Epidemic than in any other part of the World: If then the taking of Snush be no essential or real Good, but manifestly a dangerous and for the most part a Mortal Evil, Why should the use of it be continued as it is, or Men be so fond of their own Hurt, unless (as I have said before) because they resolve to be in the Mode, let the Consequence of it be never so destructive. But I would not that it should be thought I therefore explode or decry the use of all sorts of Snush, for there is one sort (and scarcely any more, or at leastwise none to compare with it, being a Chemical Preparation) that may be taken with Safety and Success, it being to be taken but sometimes neither, the Receipt of which none knows but myself, and which I have also appointed to be Sold by Mr. Varenne at One Shilling per Paper, to be taken the quantity of a small Pea up each Nostril in a Morning, which will be found to operate pleasantly and acceptably and corroborate the Head, Brain and Nerves, and bring away much Foulness and thick Humours which obstruct the Passages of the Brain, causing Sore Eyes, Blindness, head-aches, Vapours, Wind in the Head, etc. it being very safe, and working without the least danger of taking Cold, bringing away congealed or clotted Blood or glutinous Matter, or Imposthumes in the Head, whether from Blows, Falls, or otherwise, and effectually Cures Stuff in the Nostrils, and draws out Mercury lodged in the Head by irregular Salivations or the use of Mercurial Remedies, and cannot but be the only Snush in the Universe for Lethargies, Vertigoes, Epilepsies, Apoplexies, Madness, and the like. In this Snush there is not the least Grain of either Hellebor, Euphorbium or Tobacco, which are the chief Ingredients of all your Snushes in vogue, whether Foreign or Domestic made, and which by causing violent and long Sneezing, concuss and shake the Brain, thereby inducing the same Diseases, for which this Snuff of mine is oftentimes a perfect Cure; and as strong Sneezing are apparently hurtful if not pernicious, (Nature abhorring Violence) such Snushes ought carefully to be avoided. But this here recommended makes the stagnated Humours fluxile, and brings away not only a thin Water through the Nostrils as other Snushes, but also a thick glutinous Matter, insomuch that when the Faculties or Intellectuals are torpid, dull and heavy, as in Apoplexies, Lethargies, and other sleepy Diseases, the excrementitious Humours causing the same, are, as it were, dissolved and made with ease to pass away through the Nostrils, it working gently for a long time together, attracting powerfully and bringing away from all parts of the Head and Brain such a vast quantity of Excrements, that Deafness, tho' of never so long standing, as also Cataracts and Suffusions which overspread the Sight and cause Blindness, may possibly be cured thereby, or at leastwise it will so far help the Sight and Hearing, as to be found exceeding beneficial and safe when all other sorts of Snuff have been so far from helping therein, that they have manifestly been destructive to both the one and the other. But for those other Head-Diseases before mentioned, and in an especial manner for Apoplexies, it may possibly do more than any other thing in the World beside, and that more particularly if it be snuffed up the Nostrils every Morning, or upon extraordinary occasions at Nights also for two or three or four days successively. And if the Tablets also be used daily as in the following Directions, they may together work such wonderful Effects in those Diseases, as would be almost incredible to relate, for they will cause such a total Evacuation and Discharge of the foul excrementitious Humours which cause most Head-Diseases, as must needs beyond all inward means work far greater and indeed very surprising Effects. Directions for using the Tablets. PUT one of them into your Mouth, and as soon as soft (which will be in a moment's time) chew it or hold it there, rolling it about with your Tongue, for as long or as short a time as your Distemper may require you should Spit more or less, always Spitting out the Rheum as it is attracted, which will come faster after a quarter of an hours time, but never so fast as to be troublesome. If you would Spit a Quart in a day, use thus one or two of them one after another for four or five hours at times, and so in proportion more or less as you have occasion; and if before you are ware you should swallow your Spittle; or by chance the Tablet, 'twill no ways harm you or disorder your Stomach. They will not stick to your Mouth or Teeth neither do they dissolve or waste by using, so that one will last a whole day if you please. In some Persons the Rheum is harder to be attracted, and may not come so free, the Glandules of the Mouth and Throat not being so open and relaxed, therefore such must only use them longer at a time than others, and will receive the same benefit, which at most is so far from being tiresome, that when you have been used to them, you will scarcely at all care to be without them in your Mouth, they being easy and pleasant, refreshing to the Memory and Intellectuals, giving one the opportunity of thinking with greater Perspicuity and Apprehension. FINIS.