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Title: A Treatise on Foreign Teas
Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published,
Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
Author: Hugh Smith
Release Date: April 10, 2009 [EBook #28549]
Language: English
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A
TREATISE
ON
FOREIGN TEAS,
_ABSTRACTED_
FROM
An ingenious WORK, lately published,
ENTITLED
_AN ESSAY ON THE NERVES_;
ILLUSTRATING
Their efficient, formal, material, and final Causes; with the Manner of
the Liquids being corrupted by corrosive Acids, and stagnated by obtuse
Alkalies:
IN WHICH ARE
OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL WATERS,
COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, _&c._
AND
An Investigation of the Nature and Preparation of Foreign Teas, with
their pernicious Effects in debilitating the Nervous System:
INTERSPERSED WITH
THE AUTHOR'S REMARKS,
Arising from an Analysis of such Preparations as may be most
beneficially substituted for INDIA TEA.
THIS SELECTION, containing the Sentiments of the many eminent Physical
Professors who have written on Foreign Teas, is designed to shew, by
the most forcible Arguments and distinguished Authorities, the extreme
Danger to which the Public are exposed from the continual Use of an
Article so pernicious and destructive to the Constitution.
[Price Six-pence.]
Dr. SOLANDER's
SANATIVE ENGLISH
TEA.
UNIVERSALLY APPROVED and RECOMMENDED
BY THE MOST
EMINENT PHYSICIANS,
IN PREFERENCE TO FOREIGN TEA,
As the most Pleasing and POWERFUL RESTORATIVE,
IN ALL
NERVOUS DISORDERS,
HITHERTO DISCOVERED.
Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste of
the body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry is
important, whether INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur in
pronouncing a Species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears the
substance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose--If it be
not--the inquiry is further necessary to find out a pro
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