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impeded, but efpecially whilft the "Poles ge bare-headed, as they 
frequtntly do; the patients in this diftemper have a fancy to Ibme 
particular thino; iome defire water only, others burnt fpirits, 
with an averfion to all other forts of drink, by the like medi- 
cines they are relieved in the fcurvy. Befides the malignant fe- 
ver called the Hungarian fever, there are other epidemical diflem- 
pers of lefs note, 2s Czemer, 'porcellus CaJJovierifis^ ^ Strumce-y 
Czemer is a certain kind of fwelling on the fide of the wrift upon 
the arteries, reiembling a luft knot, which upon touching, cau- 
ies a pain 5 it is cuttd ly emetics and fudorifics 5 the "Porcellui 
Cajjovierifii is a hard tumour, in the fhape of a pig, on the re- 
gion of the fpleen, and very frequent amongft the citizens of 
Caffovia^ being a Ichirrous difpofitionof the fpleen with Flatus's 
inWiQ Colon -J this diitemper is cured by aperitives: Struma ov 
Icrophulous tumours are only to be found in thofe towns of Hun- 
gary that border on mountains, where there are gold mines, and 
they are caufed by mercurial waters, and other mineral effluvia; 
at the decreafe of the iiioon, and in the beginning of this dif- 
temper, the patient receives into his mouth the fmoak of a burnt 
fponge, and ulually Iwallows down the remainder of the aflies 
mixed with honey j but there is no curing of inveterate Strurace. 
An Account of Coffee, hy Mr. James Houghton. Phil. Tranf. 
N° 25^. p. 311. 
MR. Houghton could not learn the ufe of any part of the 
coffee-ihrub, except the berries, which being boiled in 
water are drank much amongll the Arabians and "Turks^ and is 
alfo ufed now amongft moft Europeans : It is not eafy to account 
how the Arabians firll came to ufe coffee, perhaps it was their 
Succeclaneum to wine, which Mabowet prohibited by his law; 
nor how they came to roaft it before it is infaled, which pro- 
bably was owing to chance, or perhaps to a debauched palate: 
However it got head, for by its actual heat it is found to refreila 
the weary, and have leveral other good effects, like wine that 
a6ts by a potential heat. It had not been in ufe ( according to 
Mr. favernier ) much above 20 years 5 however it quickly be- 
came general, which occalioned its becoming a trade in great 
towns, where public coffee-houfes were let up, into which Gran- 
gers coming, they learned the cuftom there, and carried it into 
iheir own countries : One Mr. Rajfal an Englip merchant, 
whom Mr. Houghton knew, founded a coiree-houfe at Leghorn 
m 16^1 j the next year Mr. "iJaniel Ed-zvards a merchant from 
Smyrna whQrc coffee had been ufed time out of mind, brought 
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