Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, J.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Advice medical, and economical, relative to the purchase and consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; wines, and malt liquors: including tests to detect adulteration. Also remarks on water. With directions to purify it for domestic use / by J. Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    breast, if drank strong, four or five dishes in bed in the morning. For these latter diseases, being a defluxion of sharp serum from the glands about the head and throat, are often the effects of diminished or checked perspira- tion, commonly called a cold; for then what should be separated and discharged by the skin, falls upon the glands of the head, and, irritating them, causes a sneezing, running of the nose, or a cough, or sometimes a dulness of hearing, &c. Those employed in the Dutch embassy to China, observed that the Chinese spit very little, and are rarely afflicted with gout or stone, which their physicians impute to the liberal use of tea*. ‘“* Bohea tea is serviceable where perspiration is too great, the force and fibres of the vessels too strong, the circulation too rapid; it lessens the immoderate expense of the fluids by the skin; the solids do not act with so great eelerity and force, the blood’s circuit, there- fore, is not so rapid, nor its parts so quickly attenuated or expelled, and hence the body is better nourished. In spitting of blood, whether * Tom. iil. Philosoph. Trans. No, 14.