(5 Ges.) 
conititution would be relaxing, and thereby enfeebling. If this 
warm aqueous fluid were taken in confiderable quantities, its 
effects would be proportionable; and ftill greater, if it were ah 
ftituted inftead of nutriment *. 
‘That all infufions -of herbs may be confidered in this light 
feems not unreafonable. The infufion of Tea, neverthelefs, 
_ has thefe two particularities. It is not only poffeffed of a 
fedative quality (Sncr. If. Exe. Ii. IV.), but alfo of a con- 
fiderable aftringency (Srecr. II. Exp. If.) ; by which the relax- 
ing power afcribed to a mere aqueous fluid is in fome meafure 
corrected, It is, on account of the latter, perhaps lefs injurious 
than many other infufions of herbs, which, befides a very flight 
‘aromatic flavour, have very little if any fiypticity, to prevent 
their relaxing debilitating effects. | 
: ghee therefore, if not too fine, nor drank too hot, or in too 
_ great quantities, is, perhaps, preferable to any other vegetable: 
anfiltont we know. And if we take into confideration likewife 
its known enlivening energy, it will appear that our attachment 
- to Tea is not merely from its being coftly or fafhionable, 
but from its fuperiority in tafte and effects to moft other 
wegetables. 
* Vide Trattato di Medicina prefesbison Scritto da Carlo Gianella. Veron. 
1751. p. 112. Simon Pauli, who took a pleafure in eee. the ufe of Tea, in- 
dulges himfelf with the i — of the following lines : 
Wiin and warff, 
Drindt Beer and verdarff, 
Driné&t Waater and farf : 
= 7 Se Drink Wine, and PSOne: 
‘Drink Water, sia in ee ; 
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