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RACCT TOON: “VIE. 
Aw affiftant to a°Tea broker, had frequently for fome 
weeks complained of pain and giddinefs of his head, after ex- 
amining and mixing different kinds of Tea: the giddinefs was 
fometimes fo confiderable, as to render it neceflary for a perfon 
to attend him, in order to prevent any injury he might fuffer _ 
from falling or other accident. He was bled in the arm freely, 
but without permanent relief; his complaint returned as:foon 
as he was expofed to his ufual employment. At length’ he was. 
advifed to be electrified, and the fhocks were directed to his. 
head. The next day his pain was diminifhed, but the day after 
clofed the tragical fcene. I faw him a few hours: before he 
died ; ke was infenfible; the ufe of his limbs almoft loft, and 
he funk very fuddenly into a fatal apoplexy. _ Whether the 
effluvia of the Tea, or electricity, was the caufe of this event, is. 
doubtful. In either view the cafe is worthy of attention’. | 
Sos. young man of a delicate conftitution, had tried many pow- 
erful medicines. in vain, for.a depreffion of {pirits, which he | 
1 Fyom thefe inftances of the deleterious effects of Tea, one might be led to fup-- 
pofe that the fame unhappy confequences would frequently attend ‘thofe who are. - 
employed in examining and mixing different kinds of Tea in China; but there the» 
Teas are mixed under an open fhed, through which the air has a free current, by 
which the odour and the duft are diffipated: but in London this bufinefs is ufually- 
done in a back room, confined on every fide. . a 
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