certain _Persian_, ignorant of the Edict, came into his Camp with some _Tobacco_ to sell, he ordered both him and his Commodities to be thrown into one Funeral Pile and burnt. * * * * * These, and other similar Examples, might perhaps have a lucky Influence on some _Europeans_, unless the Custom of using _Tobacco_ had become so prevalent and universal, that _James_ the Sixth said he believed "that a whole Wood in _England_ would hardly afford Trees enough for hanging the Dealers in _Tobacco_." _Hoffman_, in _Lib. 2. de Medicam Officinal. Cap. 3._ informs us, "that this Prince, in the University of _Oxford_, disputed publickly against the Use of _Tobacco_, giving Instances of Persons who used it, who were afflicted with incurable Disorders of the Breast, Deliriums, Watchings, and Convulsions; and after whose Death, the Lungs were found black and parched, just as if they had been indurated in Smoak." The same _Hoffman_ informs us, that he was told by some Soldiers who had resided in _Holland_, "that upon dissecting the Heads of some Snuff-takers, who had been executed, they observed, that the whole internal Part of what Anatomists call the _Patera_ of the Brain, was black with Snuff." He was also told by _Patricius Noræus_, "that in the last _Bohemian_ War, he saw all the Heads of the _English_ Soldiers, who were killed, in the same Condition." _Nardus Antonius Recchus_, in _Lib. 5. Rer. Medicar. Nov. Hisp._ observes, "that those who use _Tobacco_ too frequently, become ill coloured, have a squalid, sordid Tongue, a Palpitation of the Throat, and a preter-natural Heat of the Liver, and fall into Cachexies and Dropsies, by which they are at last cut off." Thus they suffer for their Folly in gratifying themselves in so preposterous a Manner. * * * * *