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ous Dr. Lettsom, that our attachment to tea 

 is not merely owing to its being costly and 

 fashionable, but to its real superiority in tast e 

 and effect over most other vegetables. 



That the too frequent use of tea, or rather 

 hot water, destroys the tone of the stomach, 

 and causes nervous complaints, is admitted, 

 but there are also other causes for these dis- 

 orders. 



Jonas Hanway, the well-known traveller, 

 to whose philanthropy the Magdalen Charitj 

 and the Marine Society owe their origin, and 

 to whose humanity the lower classes are 

 indebted for the establishment of Sunday 

 schools, wrote an Essay on Tea, which he 

 considered pernicious to health. The treatise 

 was reviewed by Dr. Samuel Johnson, in the 

 Literary Magazine for 1757, with much wit 

 and force of argument. Mr. Hanway pro- 

 ceeds to enumerate the ill effects of tea, and 

 having uttered some piteous lamentations 

 about the "weak digestion, low spirits, and 

 bad teeth of the sweet creatures of the other 

 sex," all of which he attributes to the use 

 of tea, he gravely observes, " Men seem to 

 have lost their stature and comeliness, and 

 women their beauty. I am not young, but 

 methinks there is not quite so much beaut v 



