"There is an herb which is sowed apart by itself & is called by the inhabitants Uppówoc: In the it has divers names, according to the several places & countries where it grows and is used: The Spaniards generally call it Tobacco. The leaves thereof being dried and brought into powder: they use to take the fume or smoke thereof by sucking it through pipes made of clay into their stomach and head; from whence it purges superfluous & other gross , opens all the pores & passages of the body: by which means the use thereof, not only preserves the body from obstructions; but also if any be, so that they have not been of too long continuance, in short time breaks them: whereby their bodies are notably preserved in health, & know not many grievous diseases wherewithal we in England are oftentimes afflicted."
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Thomas Harriot
(c. 1560 – 2 July 1621) was an English , , and . Very little of his work on astronomy, mathematics, and navigation was published during his lifetime. On the 5th of August 1609 he became the first — a few months before Galileo — to make a drawing of the Moon based upon observations through a telescope.
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