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A treatise on foreign teas

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A treatise on foreign teas

Hugh, 1736?-1789 Smith

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Your nerves, warned Hugh Smith, may be steeped in the teapot. This treatise on foreign teas, abstracted from an essay on the nerves, traces how the fashionable leaf acts on the body, how its liquids become corrupted, and whether the habit serves health at all. Georgian medicine squinting hard at a national obsession. Sip while an old doctor frets over your cup.

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31 chapters

  1. 1TREATISE
  2. 2ON
  3. 3FOREIGN TEAS, ABSTRACTED
  4. 4FROM
  5. 5An ingenious WORK, lately published,
  6. 6ENTITLED
  7. 7AN ESSAY ON THE NERVES;
  8. 8ILLUSTRATING Their efficient, formal, material, and final Causes; with the Manner of the Liquids being corrupted by corrosive Acids, and stagnated by obtuse Alkalies: IN WHICH ARE
  9. 9OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL WATERS, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, c.
  10. 10AND An Investigation of the Nature and Preparation of Foreign Teas, with their pernicious Effects in debilitating the Nervous System: INTERSPERSED WITH
  11. 11THE AUTHOR'S REMARKS,
  12. 12Arising from an Analysis of such Preparations as may be most beneficially substituted for INDIA TEA.
  13. 13THIS SELECTION, containing the Sentiments of the many eminent Physical Professors who have written on Foreign Teas, is designed to shew, by the most forcible Arguments and distinguished Authorities, the extreme Danger to which the Public are exposed from the continual Use of an Article so pernicious and destructive to the Constitution.
  14. 14[Price Six-pence.]
  15. 15Dr. SOLANDER's
  16. 16SANATIVE ENGLISH
  17. 17TEA.
  18. 18UNIVERSALLY APPROVED and RECOMMENDED

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