The idea has been suggested in the "NOTES AND QUERIES," but I do not know
how to refer to the places[3], or recollect what authorities were given.
Probably that of Howell was not, as it occurs in a very scarce volume; and,
on the chance of its not having been met with by your readers, I send it.
It is contained in a letter addressed "To his highly esteemed Friend and
Compatriot, Judge Rumsey, upon his _Provang_, or rare pectorall Instrument,
and his rare experiments of Cophie and Tobacco." This letter is prefixed to
the learned Judge's _Organon Salutis: an Instrument to cleanse the Stomach,
as also divers New Experiments of the Virtue of Tobacco and Coffee, &c._
London, 1657, 8vo.