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I know people of both fexes, who are conftantly feized with 
great uneafinefs, anxiety, and oppreffion, as often as they take 
a fingle cup of Tea, who neverthelefs, for the fake of company, 
- drink feveral cups of warm water, mixed with nee and milk, — 
without the fame inconvenience. | 
A phyfician, whofe acquaintance I have long been favoured 
with, and who, with fome others, was prefent when the pre- | 
ceding experiments were made at the college of Edinburgh, 
has a remarkable delicacy in feeling the effects of a fmall quan- 
tity of fine Tea. If drank in the forenoon, it affects his fto~ 
mach with an uneafy fenfation, which continues for feveral hours, 
and entirely takes away his appetite for food at dinner; though | 
at other times, when he takes chocolate for breakfaft, he ge- 
nerally makes a very hearty meal at noon, and enjoys the moft 
perfect health. If he drink a fingle difh of tea in the afternoon, 
it affects him in the fame manner, and deprives him of fleep 
for three or four hours through the fucceeding night; yet he 
can take a cup of warm water with fugar and milk, without the 
leaft inconvenience. 
It may be remarked that opium has nearly the fame effet 
upon him as Tea, but in a greater degree; for he informs me, 
that when he once accidentally took a quantity of the folution 
of opium, it had not the leaft tendency to induce fleep, but 
produced a very difagrecable uneafinefs at his ftomach, ap- 
proaching to naufea. The late celebrated Profeffor Whytt *, of 
Edinburgh, affords a ftriking example how injurious the effects 
of Tea may be es conftitutions, which I fhall relate in his 
: Beis s Works, 4to. p. 642 bes eo 
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