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Green Tea has a 1 5th Part Salt, Bohea T m 
i-i5-r4th. The Oil and lighter Earth, loft 
by Decoftion and Evaporation of the fil- 
tered Liquor, are S-ijths of the whole. 
But in making of Tea, the Parts obtained 
from the Leaf is different in different Wa- 
ters ; for two Drams of Green Tea infufed 
two Hours in boiling River Water, then 
the Water poured off, and more put on, 
and repeated a third time ; then the Leaves 
carefully and fiowly dried, had loft 2-5 ths. 
Rain Water left it lighter, &c. 
CHAP. VII. 
How TEA is nfed , and of the other- 
ingredients » 
^THERE are fundry Ways of making 
Tea , the Tartars boil it in Milk, which 
feems to be ill judged ; For, 1. Milk either 
blunts, or fheatbis up the more minute, oily, 
or faline Particles of the Tea , therefore ca - 
chedlic and leucophlegmatic Perfons lhould 
neither boil it in Milk, nor ufe Cream to it ^ 
for all Stimulation from the Liquor is here- 
by prevented, inftead whereof it foftens 
and lubricates. 2. The boiling of Milk 
D 4 carries 
