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It is evident from. thefe experiments, - that both green and — 
bohea Tea poffefs an antifeptic (ExeerrmenT IL), and aftrin- 
gent power (Experiment II.), applied to the dead animal 
fibre. 
See Neumann’s Chemiftry by Lewis, page 377. Short, on the Nature and Properties 
of Tea, p. 29. The firft author I have met with, that tried this experiment, was 
J. And. Hahn, who wrote in the year 1722. De herbe exoticee Thee infufo, 
ejufque ufu et abufu, Erford, 4to. Though it fhould be premifed, that Nic. de 
" Blegny, who publithed his work, intituled, Le bon ufage du Thé, &c. in 1680, 
takes notice of the aftringency of Tea, from which quality he deduces many of its 
virtues. Vid. Ac. Eruditor. V. vi. page 49. Ann. 1688. 
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