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difeafes, btit Gdiidemn it in ophthalmies, colics, and 

 palfies. From Kalm^ he tells us, the Indians of 

 North America knew not the inconveniences of 

 Carious teeth, debilitated ftomachs, nor the wo- 

 men difficult labours, until the introdu6tion of 

 • Tea attlong them. That the phyficians at Ham- 

 lurgh^ Amfterdam^ &c. attribute the frequency of 

 the Leucorrhdea among the women of condition to 

 their indulgence in this liquor. And further, that 

 Boerhaave afcribed to the fipping hot Tea, a 

 fchirrofity in the glands of the cefophagus, which 

 he met with on difledion, and which he thought 

 ^ difeafe not known to the antients. 



The author fubjoins fome obfervations on the 

 important and extenfive influence of Tea in a mer- 

 cantile view, and as an article of luxury; and. 

 concludes with the hiftory of the introdudion of 

 the living plant into Europe^ as above mentioned, 

 hinting alfo at the pofTibility of naturalizing it in 

 other countries^ A plate of the Bohea ^ea Ihrub 

 is annexed. 



138. PoTus Chocolate. A, Hoffman. 1765, 

 We are now come to the lad, and what oqr aq- st 

 thor thinks the moft falubrious, of the three ele- 

 gant articles of luxury that the moderns have ac- 

 quired by the difcovery of the Eaji and Weft Indies* 

 Chocolate is the produce of an American intertro- 

 pical tree, flowering twice in a year, and lingular 

 in producing its fruit frorri the body or trunk, and 

 not from the branches. It belongs to the Pentan-^ 

 drous order gf the Polyadelphous clafs ; and is dif- 

 tinguid^ed by the name of l^heohroma (Cacao) 

 foliis integerripiis^ Sp. PI. i xoo> 



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