Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D.

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.
Date:
1750
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON. bis nopiit lia, 22 Oi 5: Oe. Ws Ee & A Defcription of the Tea Surus, Lear, FLOWERS, and SEEDS. EMPFER in his Amenitates Exetice, and in the Appendix to the fecond Volume of his Hiftory of ‘Japan, gives the fulleft and trueft Account of this Shrub and its Leaf, that I have yet found; which I fhall therefore borrow here. The Tea-tree is a Shrub that grows but flowly ; it rifes to fix Foot and higher, has a black, woody, irregular branched Root. Its Bark is dry, thin, weak, chefnut co- loured, greyifh on the Stem, and fomewhat inclined to green on the Extremities of the ‘Twigs; it is firm, and adheres clofely to the Wood,