use the Expressions of _Salust_, "They are addicted to Intemperance and Sleep, so rude and uncultivated, that they seem to lead the Life of Brutes, rather than that of Men, since they indulge themselves in Voluptuousness, whilst their Souls are a Burthen to them." In a word, they live in a no less brutal Manner, than the Inhabitants of the Main Land of _Africa_, who, according to _Hippocrates_, in _Lib. de Morbo sacra_, "lie upon Goat-Skins, and eat Goat's Flesh, without any Bed-Cloths, or Garments, or Shoes, except what are made of Goat-Skins." The _Americans_ are still worse, since they feed upon human Flesh, have nothing to cover them, and pass their Time in desart Places, and lurking Holes. Since, therefore, the Climate, Soil, and Non-Naturals of the _Americans_, are widely different from those of the _Europeans_, it is highly reasonable, that we should neither admit, nor tolerate, the continual and habitual Use of _Tobacco_ in _Europe_. _Cornelius Agrippa_, in _Lib. de Vanitat. Scient. Cap. 84._ seems, with a good deal of Reason, to think, "That it would greatly contribute, not only to the Health of Mankind, but also to the Interests of particular States, to prohibit the Importation of foreign and exotic Drugs, which are often counterfeited, or adulterated, by those who deal in them, to the great Detriment of the State." No less salutary and reasonable is that Law enacted at _Rome_ by _Nero_, which runs in the following Tenor: "Apothecaries are hereby injoined, to use no other Medicines, but those found in _Italy_, since these are not only better suited and adopted to the Constitutions of _Romans_, but may also be had far fresher, more genuine, and with less Difficulty, Expences, and Danger, than foreign Medicines, the most of which are justly to be suspected, as sophisticated, spurious, spoiled in the Ship, corrupted by Age, or not collected at due Seasons, or in proper Places." Since the Diseases described by the Antients, sometimes seize the _Europeans_, though with new and uncommon Symptoms; and since new Diseases also appear in _Europe_, I think it is not to be doubted, but the Meats, Fruits, and other Delicacies, sent from _Asia_, _Africa_, and _America_, into _Europe_, are, in some Measure, the Sources of our Calamities.