Medical common sense : applied to the causes, prevention and cure of chronic diseases, and unhappiness in marriage / by Edward B. Foote.

  • Foote, Edward B. (Edward Bliss), 1829-1906.
Date:
1858
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    people than any other beverage. Coffee leaf tea is sipped in Suma- tra, while the Ethiopians of Central Africa quaff the Abj-ssiniau chaat. Thus we see that warm drinks are popular with Christian and Savage, and if we accept the wisdom of intuition and instinct, we must consider them, as a general rule, healthful. i.^^'^ THE CHINESE GATHEEINO TEA, The fact that tea does not agree with me does not prove it !» dinserous or injurious beverage. Some people cannot eat straw berries, without a succession of colic. Others enjoy strawberries but a sweet apple will create constipation. The effects of tea and coffee depend entirely on the peculiar idiosyncrasies of the drinkers, and, the same as in the use of food, no definite rule can be laid down Geneial directions may be given, which, if observed, will enable