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ceived great benefit from tea-drinking, which 

 was, when it was first known in France, about 

 the year 1670. He says, " it deserves the 

 title of Brusher to the understanding, for its 

 salutary leaves, with their benign vapours, as 

 it were sweep the brain." 



It is justly observed by Dr. Leake, " that 

 weak tea drunk too hot will enervate, and if 

 very strong, may prove equally pernicious, 

 by affecting the head or stomach ; but when 

 it is drunk in moderation, and not too warm, 

 with a large addition of milk, I believe it will 

 seldom prove hurtful, but, on the contrary, 

 salutary." 



Lewis says, an infusion of tea in water is 

 a grateful diluent in health, and a salutary 

 drink in sickness. 



No other plant is known whose infusion 

 more readily passes off by the emunctories, 

 or more speedily excites the spirits. 



Most people have felt and acknowledged 

 its refreshing and reviving powers after se- 

 rious study, or fatiguing journeys. It has 

 been observed, that the cheerful and pleasing 

 society in which we often partake of it, is no 

 inconsiderable inducement to the drinking of 

 tea ; and whatever affords rational pleasure 



