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’ absence of sufficient food it increases the waste of the body 
_ Tea is also a powerful astringent, and should not, therefo 
_ As a nervine stimulant tea. may be taken with advantage 
in theine we possess an agent which exerts no injurious 
upon the organism, even when administered in lars 
. entirely subduing the pain; they caused no local i i 
s aid eles iter in any vey with the anhon ss 
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ways. From containing gluten, tea has also been regarded as 
directly nutritive, but in the ordinary mode of making tea 
this substance is not extracted to any amount. The action o 
tea is thus described by Dr. Smith :—* It increases the — 
tion of food both of the flesh.and heat-forming kind ; 
with abundance of food must promote nutrition, whilst in the 
be taken until some time after meals, as it is likely to prod 
to hysteria, or palpitation of the heart from valvular d 
headache and neuralgia, and in other affections causet 
Its effects as a nervine stimulant are due to the theine conta 
in it. ( Bentl. and Trim.) 
Pratt’s experiments with tieine seem to ies t! 
motor nerves are not affected by it ; he-surrounded one 
nerve of a frog with a paste of ekii and water, and i 
the spinal cord, when both legs responded with u 
alacrity. Pratt also found that when the left sciatic n 
sea pont i A Be Mays (Polyelinie Sept., 1887,) heat nov 
To obtain this effect of theine he found subcutaneous inje 
—— and in local neuralgias he injected as much 2 
mes with excellent results, These - injections 
RIE 2 daily for 21 days in obstinate cases with the 
