A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry.

  • Henry, James, 1798-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    conformity with their new principle, aban- doned their former habits, but they are altogether at a loss to determine what new habits to establish in the place of those which they have abandoned: some inquire whether or not a new stimulus should be substituted for that which has just been laid aside ; others, taking the necessity for a stimulus as granted, discuss the question whether that stimulus should be tea or cof- fee, or opium, or tobacco; many have al- ready substituted one or other of these intoxicating substances in place of their accustomed wine or spirits: the majority are inclined in favour of tea and coffee, but are by no means agreed as to the quantity of them that should be taken, or as to the times of taking them : some, on the principle that an artificial stimulus is absolutely ne- cessary to the due performance of digestion, take coffee immediately after dinner ; some thinking that coffee disturbs digestion wait until the usual hour of tea, and then take tea or coffee, or both, and these in larger quan- tities than formerly, because not having taken wine or punch after dinner they feel an increased degree of thirst at tea-time. Others take coffee immediately after dinner, and again coffee or tea at the usual tea-time.