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Tea is a fecond time brought before company ; it is drank by 
moft people, and often in no very {mall quantities. Before the 
introduction of this exotic, it was not unufual to entertain after- 
noon guefts in a very different manner ; jellies, tarts, fweet- 
meats ; nay, cold meat, wine, cyder, firong ale, and even {pi- 
rituous liquors under the title of cordials, were often brought 
_ out on thefe occafions, and perhaps taken to excefs, much to 
the i injury of individuals. 
This kind of repaft would tend to keep up the natural in- 
Satie; diathefis, which was the refult of vigour, and a pleni- 
tude of rich blood, as well as favour. difeafes originating from 
fuch caufes. It feems not unreafonable therefore to fuppofe, 
_ that, as the diet of our anceftors was more generous, their exer-_ 
cifes more athletic, and their difeafes more generally the pro- 
duce of a rich blood, than are obfervable in the prefent times, 
thefe- debilitating effefts before-mentioned may in part be 
attributed to the ufe of Tea, as no caufe — to be fo general 
and fo — 
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