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Ir is faid that in Japan aad China the ftone is a very 
unufual diftemper, and the natives fuppofe that Tea has the 
quality to prevent it’. So far as it foftens and meliorates the 
water, which is very bad, it may certainly be of ufe*. We 
may alfo obferve here, that every folvent is capable of taking up 
a limited quantity only of the folvend, and, when fally fa- 
turated with it, is incapable of fufpending it long; hence it is 
plain, that the quantity of the ftony matter carried off muft be 
greater when the urine is increafed in quantity, and has not 
been too long retained in the bladder : and therefore, as Tea is 
_adiuretic, it may in this view prove lithonthriptic. , 
Tea, we have already obferved, contains an aftringent anti- 
feptic quality (Secr.I. Exp. I, II.) It likewife poffefles no . 
inconfiderable degree of bitternefs; and, as the uve urfi, and 
other bitters, have mitigated fevere paroxyfms of the ftone, may 
be Te ea Pave ferviceable alfa by its antacid quality?» 
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Sommaire, , &Ce J. N. Pechlin. Obf. xxvii. de Remed. Arthr. 
Prophylact. p- 26. “Baplivins | in doloribus calculofis et podagricis eam {pecialiter 
-. €ommendavit, p. se — Mat. Med. Thee Folia. Sir G. ventas Vol. H. 
Be Recs 2 jute 
ances it r } thereby rendered confiderably fofter ; but i it is —— 
‘meat ace red in ‘thefe refpects by infufing with Tea. See Percival’s E: 
Obferrations on Water, p. 27 ot 33 
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