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pared after another manner. He ordered the Tea to be infufed 
in hot water, which after a few hours he caufed to be poured 
off, ftand over night, and to be made warm again in the morn- 
ing for breakfatt. By this means, he aflures me, he can take; 
without inconvenience, near double the quantity of ‘Tea, which 
formerly, when prepared in the ufual method, produced many 
difagreeable nervous complaints. _ 
The fame end is obtained by fab(itoting the extract of Tea 
(Sect. Il. 2.) inftead of the leaves. It may be ufed in the 
form of Tea, by diffolving it in warm water ; and, as the fra- 
grancy of the Tea is in this cafe diffipated, the nervous relaxing 
effects, which follow the drinking it in the ufual manner, would 
be in great meafure avoided. This extract has been imported 
into Europe from. China, in flat round dark-coloured cakes, not 
Exrceom a quarter of an ounce each in weight, ten grains of 
which, diffolved in a fufficient quantity of water, might fuffice 
one perfon for breakfaft. It might alfo be made here without 
much expence or trouble (See Sect. II. 2.). 
It is remarkable, that in all the forms which Du Halde ‘re- 
tates, for adminiftering Tea as a ftomachic medicine among the 
Chinefe, it is ordered to be boiled for fome time, or prepared in 
fuch a manner, as to caufe a diffipation of its fragrant perith- 
able flavour ; which practice, as it feems confonant to experi- 
ments here (Szcr. IL. Exp. IIL), may probably have taken its 
rife in China, from long experience and repeated facts. 
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