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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    (Bho) it be from the delicacy and tenderness of the pulmonary vessels, or the force, velocity, and acrimony of the humours, good Bohea is said to be of singular service, from its healing and balsamic properties. In this case it is recom- mended to be drank pretty strong with very coarse sugar, to the extent of five or six dishes in a morning, and three or four in the after- noon, with two tea-spoonfuls of thick cream, blended with the yolk of an egg in every dish. To make the Egg Cream. Take the yolk of an egg, with a dessert- spoonful of cream, and, if convenience will allow, two drops of oil of cinnamon added; this will be a good mixture, sufficient to serve two or‘three people to mix with their tea, for cream being chiefly the oil of the milk, and the yolk the most nutritive part of the egg, they are both lubricating and nourishing: the oil of cinnamon is both cordial and strengthening. This is also recommended in ulcers and ab- scesses of the lungs, with difficulty of breath- ing; a dry and frequent cough, especially after eating or motion; after returning fits of a hectic fever; great anxiety towards the even- ing, and night sweats. D2