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The work offers a medical and chemical survey of tobacco, tea, coffee, and chocolate, weighing advantages and disadvantages and reporting observations and experiential uses. It sets out when and for which constitutions each substance may be beneficial or harmful, gives preparations and topical and internal applications (for headaches, digestive complaints, respiratory and uterine problems, and local pains), compares Asian tea with European botanicals, and includes engraved plates showing Chinese and Persian tea utensils.

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Title: A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate

Author: Simon Paulli

Translator: R. James

Release date: September 10, 2016 [eBook #53027]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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A

TREATISE

ON

Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate.

A
TREATISE
ON
Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate.

IN WHICH

I. The Advantages and Disadvantages attending the Use of these Commodities, are not only impartially considered, upon the Principles of Medicine and Chymistry, but also ascertained by Observation and Experience.

II. Full and distinct Directions laid down for knowing in what Cases, and for what particular Constitutions, these Substances are either beneficial, or hurtful.

III. The Chinese or Asiatic Tea, shewn to be the same with the European Chamelæagnus, or Myrtus Brabantica.

The Whole Illustrated with Copper Plates, exhibiting the Tea Utensils of the Chinese and Persians.

Written originally by SIMON PAULI;

AND

Now Translated by Dr. JAMES.

Ante omnia scire convenit Naturam Corporis; quia alii graciles, alii obesi sunt, alii calidi, alii frigidiores, alii humidi, alii sicciores, alios adstricta, alios resoluta, alvus exercet.

Celsus, Lib. 1. Cap. 3.

LONDON:

Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's Inn; J. Hildyard, at York; M. Bryson, at Newcastle; and J. Leake, at Bath.

M,DCC,XLVI.