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Wavine, however, any attempts to fix with precifion 
the effects of Tea from thefe experiments alone, let us en- 
deavour to collect from obfervation likewife, fuch facts as. may. 
enable us to judge what its effects are on the human frame, 
and from thence draw the cleareft inferences we can, how far 
it is falutary or otherwife. 
The long and conftant ufe of Tea, as a part of our diet, 
_ makes us forget to enquire whether it is poflefled of any medi- 
cinal properties. We fhall endeavour to confider it in both 
refpects. 
The generality of healthy perfons find themfelves not appa- 
rently affected by the ufe of Tea: it feems to them a grateful 
refrefhment, both fitting them for labour and refrething them: 
after it. There are inftances of perfons who have drank it 
from their infancy, to old age; have led, at the fame time, 
active, if not laborious lives : ; and yet never felt any ill effects 
from the conftant ufe of it. 
Where this has been the cafe, the fubjetts of both fexes 
were for the moft part healthy, ftrong, active, and temperate. 
Amongft the lefs hardy and robuft; we find complaints, which 
are afcribed to Tea, by the parties themfelyes. Some com- 
plain | that after a Tea breakfaft, they find themfelves rather 
fluttered ; 
