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Iw treating of this fubftance, I would not be underftood 
to be either a partial advocate, or a paffionate accufer. I have 
often regretted that Tea fhould poffefs any pernicious qualities, 
as the pleafure which arifes from reflecting how many millions. 
ef our fellow-creatures are enjoying at one hour the fame 
amufing repaft; the occafions it furnifhes for agreeable conver- 
fation ; the innocent parties of both fexes it daily draws toge-. 
ther, and entertains without the aid of {fpirituous liquors; 
would afford grateful fenfations to a focial breaft. But juftice . 
demands fomething more. It ftands charged by many able 
writers, by public opinion, partly derived from experience, 
with being the caufe of many diforders; all that train of 
diftempers included under the name of NERvovus are faid to 
be, if not the offspring, at leaft highly aggravated by the 
ufe of Tea. To enumerate all thefe would be to tranfcribe: 
volumes. It is not impoffible but the charges may be Pury 
true ~ Let us examine them with all poffible candour. 
‘The effect of drinking large quantities of any warm aqueous 
liquor, according to all the experiments ‘we are acquainted with, . 
would be, to enter fpeedily into the courfe of circulation, and 
pais off as fpeedily by urine or perfpiration, or the increafe of 
 fome of the fecretions. - Its siete on the folid parts of the : 
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