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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    ftance, Size, and Shape, according to the different Age, Situation, and Nature of the Soil wherein, they grow. Were they in- fufed, and, drank when. they are frefh and green, they would much affect the Body, efpecially the Hands; for being Narcotic, they would oceifion a trenzbling and con- vulfive Motion 1mthe Nerves; but they lofe this bad Quality in the drying and rolling, which exprefies that clammy, yellowifh, acid “fuice,, which caufes thefe Tremors ;. yea, fo corrofive fometimes is this Juice, that it ex- coriates the. Hands of the Roajfers and Rol- lers. | _ The Branches are thick befet with Flowers, one or two together, much like our wild Rofes, an Inch or better in Diameter, having little Smell, compofed of fix round, hollow Petala, or Leaves, ftanding on a Foot Stalk Of an Inch long, which from a flender Be- ginning, infenfibly grow larger, and end in an uncertain Number, commonly five or fix, of fmall, round Sguame, or Leaves, which ferve inftead of the Caix. Thefe Flowers continue growing till late in the Winter ;, one or two whereof are generally fick, flarunk,. and fall fhort of the Largenefs, and | Beauty