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It is an obfervation I have often had occafion to make, that 
people, after violent exercife, or coming off a journey much 
fatigued, and affected with a fenfe of general uneafinefs, at- 
tended with thirft and great heat, by drinking a few cups of 
warm Tea, have generally experienced immediate refrefhment. 
It alfo proves a grateful diluent, and agreeable fedative, after a 
full meal, when the ftomach is opprefled, the head pained, and 
the pulfe beats high*; hence the Poet lays, ; 
“‘ The Mufe’s friend, Tea, does our Bey aid, 
_* Reprefs thofe vapours which the head invade, 
“ And keeps that palace of the foul ferene,” 
« Fit on her birth-day to falute a queen.” 
WALLER. 
* This is particularly remarked, as one of the good effects of Tea, by De Blegny, 
who wrote in 1680, which he probably copied from Alex. Rhod. Sommaire des 
divers Voyages, &c. printed in 1653. See alfo Chamberlayn on Coffee, Tea, and 
Chocolate, p. 40. Le Compte’s Memoirs and. Obfervations, p. 227. Home's 
Principia Medicine, p. 5. Cheynzi Traétatus, p. 89. Percival’s Experimental 
Effays, p. 1 £30. - ai fot on the Difeafes of Literary and Sedentary perfons, p. 145, 
& feq. Dr. Kirkpatrick, in his notes upon this Work, relates the cafe of a Lawyer, 
who had been troitbled. for fome time with the gravel and ftone, and taken many 
medicines in vain; till at length he refolved to try the effects of Tea, an account of 
which is given by himfelf in the following words. ‘I had never ufed myfelf to 
*© Tea, fo that the drink was new to me. I took a quarter of an ounce of fine bohea 
" Tea, and, pouring a quantity of boiling water upon it, fuffered the infufion to 
«s ftand till it grew cold. I then poured it off clear, and drank three cups of it in 
*< the morning, at the diftance of about an hour between each, two cups fsfting, 
“€ one after breakfaft, and a fourth two hours after dinner. The firft day, the only 
** effect es ® was a more plentiful difcharge of urine; but the fecond day I 
““* voided in the twelve large fragments, a nucleus of the fize of a {mall pea, 
<< with fome. ed. ‘on what gave me more fatisfaction was, ace! the ufe of the 
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