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I am informed likewife by a phyfician, of long and ex- 
tenfive practice in the city, that he has known feveral inflances — 
of a {pitting of blood having been brought on, by breathing in 
an air loaded with the fine duft of Tea. It is cuftomary for 
ithofe who deal largely in this article to mix different kinds to- 
‘gether, fo as to fuit the different palates of their cuftomers. 
This is generally performed in the back part of their fhops, 
feveral chefts perhaps being mixed together at the fame 
time. Thofe who are much employed in this work are at 
length very often fufferers by it; fome are feized with fudden 
bleedings from the lungs or from the noftrils; and others at- 
tacked with violent coughs, ending in confumptions. 
Thefe circumftances are chiefly brought in fight to prove, 
that, befides a fedative relaxing power, there exifts in Tea an 
active penetrating fubftance, which, in many ae can- 
not fail of being productive of fingular effects. 
An eminent Tea-broker, after having examined in one day 
upwards of one hundred chefts of Tea, only by fmelling at 
them forcibly, in order to diftinguifh their refpective qualities, _ 
was the next feized with a violent giddinefs, head-ach, univer- 
