"_Tobacco_ is also used by the _Indians_ in order to allay Hunger and Thirst; for they calcine some Shells of River-Snails, and by Trituration reduce them to a fine Powder, of which, and _Tobacco_ Leaves, they take equal Parts, and chew them together till they are reduced to a Kind of Mass, which they form into Pills, larger than a Pea: These they dry in a Shade, and preserve for Use. When they intend to travel through Desarts, where they expect neither Meat nor Drink, they take a sufficient Quantity of these Pills along with them, put one between their Under-Lip and Teeth, and constantly suck the Liquor from it; so that when one is consumed, they supply its Place with another, and thus they perform a three, and sometimes a four Days Jour-ney; during which Time, they say, they neither feel the Effects of Hunger nor Thirst: The Reason of this probably is, that as they continually suck these Pills, they draw the pituitous Humours from the Brain, which being swallowed, moisten the Stomach, and allay its natural Heat, but are at last consumed by it for Want of other Aliments. Instances of a similar Nature may be observed in many Animals, which, during the whole _Winter_, confine themselves to their Holes without any Food; because the natural Heat of the Stomach is employed in digesting and consuming the Fat which they had gathered in the _Winter_." These are all the Virtues and Qualities of _Tobacco_ known to _Monardus_: But, besides this, _Zacutus_, in _Observat. Lib. 1. de Medic. Princip. Histor._ informs us, that he had often found the Juice of _Tobacco_ effectual for the Cure of an _Alopecia_ or Falling off of the Hairs: Nor is this to be wondered at, since, as the Medicine indicated ought to bear an Analogy to the indicating Symptoms, as _Tobacco_ is hot and dry, resolvent, cleansing, and somewhat astringent; and as all these Qualities are, according to _Galen_, indicated in an _Alopecia_, _Zacutus_ might succeed in the Cure of it by means of _Tobacco_. I remember two Girls, who being indisposed, had a _Lixivium_, in which dry _Tobacco_ Leaves were macerated, prescribed for taking the Scales off their Heads; but the one was seized with a gentle _Vertigo_, and the other thought she perceived herself, as it were, drunk. But I mention these Accidents for the Sake of young Practitioners, without any Design to discourage them from applying _Tobacco_ and its Preparations to other Parts of the Body; for the celebrated _Hartmann_ seems to have thought the Essence of the green Leaves of _Tobacco_, obtained by Infusion in _Malmsey_ Wine, a Specific for the Cure of the _Palsey_; and after a Sweat has been procured, orders the paralytic Limbs to be long rubbed with it; by which Means, he says, he has often seen them happily restored.