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laboured under to a degree of melancholy, which rendered his 
fituation dangerous to himfelf and thofe about him. I found 
he drank Tea very plentifully, and therefore requefted him to 
fubftitute another kind of diet ; which he complied with, and 
afterwards gradually recovered his ufual health. Some weeks 
after this, having a large prefent of fine green Tea fent him, 
he drank a confiderable quantity of the infufion on that and 
the following day. -This was fucceeded by his former dejection 
and melancholy, with lofs of memory, tremblings, a pronenefs 
to great agitation from the moft trifling circumftances, and a 
numerous train of nervous ailments. I faw him again, and he 
immediately attributed his complaints to the Tea he had drank; 
fince which he has carefully denied himfelf the fame incalgence, 
and now enjoys his former. health. 
I have known many other inftances, Sas lefs degrees of 
@epred ion, and other complaints depending upon a relaxed irri- 
table habit, have attended delicate people for many years; and 
though they have had the advice of fkilful phyficians, yet in 
_ vain have medicines been adminiftered, till the patient has re- 
framed from the infufion of this fragrant exotic 
? Vin Swieten, in his Commentaries on Boerhaave’s sibianes, fpeaks of the 
effects of Tea and Coffee in the following manner.‘ Vidi plurimos, his potibus 
diu abufos, adeo enervatum corpus habuiffe, ut vix languida membra traherent, ac 
plures etiam apoplexia et 2 x be cerregiee fuiffe.” Tom. UT. § 1060, p. 362, 
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