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diff --git a/28549.txt b/28549.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16a13f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/28549.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3252 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Treatise on Foreign Teas, by Hugh Smith + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Treatise on Foreign Teas + Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, + Entitled An Essay On the Nerves + +Author: Hugh Smith + +Release Date: April 10, 2009 [EBook #28549] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREATISE ON FOREIGN TEAS *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +A + +TREATISE + +ON + +FOREIGN TEAS, + +_ABSTRACTED_ + +FROM + +An ingenious WORK, lately published, + +ENTITLED + +_AN ESSAY ON THE NERVES_; + + +ILLUSTRATING + +Their efficient, formal, material, and final Causes; with the Manner of +the Liquids being corrupted by corrosive Acids, and stagnated by obtuse +Alkalies: + +IN WHICH ARE + +OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL WATERS, +COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, _&c._ + +AND + +An Investigation of the Nature and Preparation of Foreign Teas, with +their pernicious Effects in debilitating the Nervous System: + +INTERSPERSED WITH + +THE AUTHOR'S REMARKS, + +Arising from an Analysis of such Preparations as may be most +beneficially substituted for INDIA TEA. + +THIS SELECTION, containing the Sentiments of the many eminent Physical +Professors who have written on Foreign Teas, is designed to shew, by +the most forcible Arguments and distinguished Authorities, the extreme +Danger to which the Public are exposed from the continual Use of an +Article so pernicious and destructive to the Constitution. + +[Price Six-pence.] + + + + +Dr. SOLANDER's +SANATIVE ENGLISH +TEA. + +UNIVERSALLY APPROVED and RECOMMENDED + +BY THE MOST + +EMINENT PHYSICIANS, +IN PREFERENCE TO FOREIGN TEA, +As the most Pleasing and POWERFUL RESTORATIVE, + +IN ALL +NERVOUS DISORDERS, +HITHERTO DISCOVERED. + +Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste of +the body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry is +important, whether INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur in +pronouncing a Species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears the +substance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose--If it be +not--the inquiry is further necessary to find out a proper substitute. +If an Apozem PROFESSIONALLY approved and recommended for its nutritive +qualities, as a general aliment, has claim to public attention, +certainly Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, so sanctioned, is the most proper morning +and afternoon's beverage. + +Prepared for the Proprietor by an eminent Botanist. + +Sold Wholesale and Retail by the Proprietor's Agent, Mr. T. GOLDING, +at his Warehouse for Patent Medicines, No. 42, Cornhill, London; and +Retail by Mr. F. NEWBERY, No. 45, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messrs. +BAILEY'S, Cockspur-street; Mr. W. BACON, No. 150, Oxford-street; Mr. +OVERTON, No. 47, New Bond-street; and by Mr. J. FULLER, South Side of +Covent Garden. Also by the Venders of Patent Medicines in most Cities +and Towns, in England, Ireland, and Scotland. + +Sold in Packets at 2s. 9d. and in Canisters at 10s. 6d. each, Duty +included. + +Liberal Allowance for Exportation, to Country Venders, and to Schools. + +The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, +being gathered and dried with peculiar attention, to the preserving of +their sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many +similar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have those +Qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. + +A Packet of this Tea at 2s. 9d. is sufficient to breakfast one Person a +Month. + + + + +ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOREIGN TEAS. + + +Having, in the preceding enquiry, traced, from the system of the +nerves, that on their state the health of the constitution chiefly +depends, our immediate concern is next to ascertain what kind of food +we either adopt from choice, custom, or necessity, is the most likely +to destroy the economy of the nerves. And as Foreign Teas have long +been censured as being the cause of many disorders which arise from the +nerves being disarranged or debilitated, an impartial enquiry is here +made into the nature, preparation, and effects, of these Teas. By this +investigation it will appear, that Teas imported from China and India +are the most injurious of any beverage that can possibly be taken as a +general and constant aliment. But, not prematurely to anticipate any +part of the following subject, the Reader is most respectfully referred +to the following pages for further evidence. + + +INTRODUCTION. + +As two of the four meals that form our daily subsistence are chiefly +composed of tea, an enquiry into what kind is the most salutary must be +as necessary as it may prove interesting and beneficial; for, on the +choice of proper or improper tea must greatly depend the health or +disease of the public in general. To this may be attributed the +constitution being either preserved from that innumerable train of +afflictions, which arise from too great a relaxation of the nervous +system by acute distempers, misfortunes, &c. or being so debilitated by +excessive drinking of India Tea, as to render it alone the prey of +melancholy, palsies, epilepsies, night-mares, swoonings, flatulencies, +low spirits, hysteric and hypochondriacal affections. For tea that is +pernicious is not only poison to those who, from any cause of corporal +debility or mental affliction, are liable to the above diseases;--but +it is also too frequently found to render the most healthy victims of +these alarming complaints. And as nervous disorders are the most +complicated in their distressing circumstances, the greater care should +be taken to avoid such aliments as produce them, as well as to choose +those which are the most proper for their relief and prevention. Those +who are now suffering from the inconsiderate use of improper tea, what +pitiable objects of distress and disease do they not represent for the +caution of those who may timely preserve themselves? Nervous disorders +are the most formidable, by being the most numerous in their attacks +upon the human frame. Every moment, comparatively speaking, produces +some new distress of mind or body. The imagination cannot avoid the +horrors of its own creation, while the memory is harrassed with the +shadows of departed pleasures, which serve but to encrease the pain of +existing torments. All the endearments of life are vanished to the poor +wretch who sees himself surrounded by the spectres of dismay, terror, +despondency, and melancholy. And such is but the thousandth part of the +afflictions that are to be avoided or produced by the choice of the +prevailing beverage of tea. Not only the innumerable train of nervous +afflictions, but all those disorders that arise from an improper +temperature of the fluids, may be produced from the action, corrosion, +and stimulation of pernicious teas. In proportion to the state of the +fluids, in particular constitutions, they may either prove too relaxing +or astringent, too condensing or attenuating, and too acrid or viscid; +for India teas, that to some constitutions are very diluting, may +produce in others contrary effects: therefore such should be chosen as +possess a combination of quality that may render them, as nearly as +possible, to a general specific. But this cannot be well expected where +one single ingredient is used, and that is distinguished for its +particular qualities, which, if wholesome, can only be such to those +whose fluids are so, by nature or circumstances, as to require such a +particular assistant; for to every other state of the fluids they must +be pernicious. It is consequently evident, that if teas imported from +India have any virtues, they cannot be such as to render them worthy of +being universally adopted as a general aliment. If wholesome to a few, +they must be pernicious to the rest of mankind, with whose +constitutions they have no congeniality, medicinal or alimentary +virtue. Supposing they may possess some physical properties, like all +other medicines, they can only benefit such disorders as nature +particularly formed them to relieve. Those who have been advocates for +their positive virtues have, in this instance, but more confirmed the +impropriety of adopting them as a general morning and evening beverage. +This only explains more evidently the cause of so many being injured, +where one is benefited, by drinking constantly India tea. There cannot +possibly be stated a more self-evident proposition than where any +simple or combined matter is adopted for a particular purpose, it must, +in every opposite instance, prove injurious. In proportion, therefore, +to such particular qualities, they are the more improper to be +generally and indiscriminately adopted. This observation, although it +may be applied to every art or science, is still more applicable to +physic. Thus is it found that no medicine can be safely taken as a +constant and general aliment. Even those who, at first, might find it +beneficial in their respective complaints, have too frequently found +the constant use of it afterwards hurtful to the constitution it had +before relieved. It may be deduced, from the above considerations, that +India teas, however physically beneficial, to allow them all their best +of praise, must be as an aliment generally injurious. Instead of +preserving health, they sow innumerable disorders, which can only be +cured by substituting a beverage from such salutary native or exotic +herbs as are formed for the particular afflictions the former have so +pitiably brought upon the too greater part of mankind. + +As almost every disorder to which the human frame is liable may be +retarded in its cure, if not confirmed in the constitution, by the +power of secretion being weakened, India teas are the most dangerous +that can be possibly used as a general beverage. By too much dilating +the canals, the concussive force of the sides is increased, which +destroys the oscillatory motion, and thus are the secretions altered +and disturbed; and as the action of medicines consists in removing +impediments to the equal motion of the fluids, the greater care should +be taken to abstain from all food or drink that may increase those +impediments. That India teas not only increase but occasion such evils +is evident, from their having been experienced to relax the tone and +reduce the consistence of the solids. As the powers of secretion depend +upon the just equilibrium of force between the solids and the liquids, +the latter must, in the above instance, make a greater _impetus_ upon +one part than another, from which proceeds that morbid state so justly +and emphatically termed Disease. Thus, according to the learned +Boerhaave, to heal is to take away the disease from the body; that is, +to remove and expel the causes which hinder the equal motion or +transflux. Medicines, he says, are those mechanical instruments by +which an artist may remove the causes of the balance being destroyed, +and thus re-instate the lost equilibrium of solids and liquids. He +therefore concludes, that a medicine supposes a flowing of the humours +or liquids; that it operates mechanically; that it acts only mediately; +that its good or bad effects depend entirely on the bulk, motion, and +figure of the acting particles, and that the destruction of the balance +must be deduced from the solids. So that, as it has been found that the +solids are wasted and impaired by the constant use of India tea, the +chief cause of disease, in general, may be attributed to such a +pernicious custom; even the properties which he ascribes to medicines +are in direct opposition to what have been found to be the prevailing +effects of teas imported into Europe. It is consequently evident, that +the drinking of this injurious tea being not only, in its operation, +productive of disease in its general sense, but also repugnant to the +salutary operation of medicine, it is the most dangerous beverage that +can be generally taken; for it appears, from the above consideration, +that its pernicious effects are not confined to any system of +disorders; it is found inimical to the first principles of health, and +therefore may be justly dreaded as capable of being the source of +disease indefinitely understood. + +Having thus stated, as an Introduction to this Essay on Teas, the +general tendency of those imported from India, under the titles of +Green, Souchong, and Bohea, to injure the constitution, the following +pages will be particularly devoted to the consideration of the nature, +preparation, and manner of using, and the effects of such foreign teas. + + +ESSAY ON TEAS. + +There is, perhaps, no subject on which there has been more declamation, +for and against its properties and effects, than those of teas imported +into this country by the companies trading from the different maritime +nations of Europe to China and India. Nor has there been a controversy +in which the health of the community has been so materially concerned, +that has afforded so little direction of moment to those who would wish +to ascertain the truth of such teas being either beneficial, injurious, +or innocent in their effects. Amidst a mass of declamatory assertion so +little intelligence is to be gained, that those who have had the +greatest interest in being informed of the real qualities of teas, have +most abandoned the enquiry before they obtained the least knowledge of +what they sought. Either perplexed with abstruse science, or +dissatisfied with assertion equally unfounded and unsupported, +thousands have discontinued the research, and committed themselves to +fatal experience. Thus have too many acquired a knowledge of the +detrimental qualities of teas, by the ruin of their constitution. To +avoid therefore such an inconvenience, the greatest care will be taken +to prevent an indiscriminate reference to authors, whose sentiments can +neither sanction adduced arguments or illustrate technical allusions. +The enquiry will be made with some reference to science, but more to +convince by demonstration than to confound by abstruse perplexities. So +that, while empty declamation is avoided, the principles of truth are +meant to be investigated by reason and experience. With this view, the +Nature of Green, Souchong, and Bohea teas is first considered. To judge +of the nature of these herbs with equal candour and propriety, it may +be necessary to consider their qualities in relation to what are +ascribed them, and what have been discovered by their analysis, and +what have resulted from experience. The virtues that have been ascribed +to them are chiefly, being a greatful diluent in health, and salutary +in sickness, by attenuating viscid juices, promoting natural +excretions, exciting appetite, and proving particularly serviceable in +fevers, immoderate sleepiness, and head-aches after a debauch. It is +also added to the list of their ascribed virtues, that there is no +plant yet known, the infusions of which pass more freely from the body, +or more speedily excite the spirits. To a person of any physical +knowledge, these qualities will either appear contradictory in +themselves, or rather ultimately injurious, than absolutely beneficial. +As the full examination of these assumed qualities, by the rules of +science, would require a volume, instead of a few pages, which the +limits of this Essay will afford, the enquiry must be made as +perspicuous as the necessity of brevity will admit. Allowing they are +diluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids as +to destroy their natural force and tensity. But Boerhaave says, there +is no proper diluent but water; it is therefore evident it is the +water, and not the tea, which is the diluting medium. With respect to +its being an attenuative of viscid humours, it can never possess this +virtue from being a diluent, for an attenuant acts _specially_ on +the particles, by diminishing their bulk, while the diluent acts upon +the whole mass of the fluid. + +The general body of the liquid may be diluted while the viscid humours +remain unresolved. Indeed, the operation of an attenuant is not easily +known; for many are surprised that a slight inflammation should be so +difficult to dissipate. But their surprise would cease, were they to +consider, that medicines act more generally upon the whole body than +abstractedly upon the part affected. Suppose to attenuate some +coagulated blood, six grains of volatile salt were given, how small a +proportion must come to the part diseased, when these grains, by the +laws of circulation, will mix with the entire mass of blood, consisting +at least of thirty pounds! + +Teas being said to promote natural excretions, can be no recommendation +of what is generally used; for this constant effect must render them +too copious, and thus, according to all physical experience, the blood +must be thickened in the greater vessels, which frequently terminates +in an atrophy. + +The appetite being excited by the drinking of tea, is more a proof of +its attrition of the solids than any stimulus to a wholesome desire of +food. This quality accounts for the acrimonious effects too many have +experienced by its use. Many have not only had their blood +impoverished, but corrupted by the constant drinking of these teas. +Whether it arises from any positive acrimonious salt it naturally +possesses, or from any acquired corrosiveness from its mode of drying, +is not here necessary to enquire: it is only requisite to state that a +pernicious effect is too fatally experienced by those who are +unfortunately its slaves. + +How India tea can be serviceable in fevers is not easy to be +understood; for, if it has that effect upon the nerves to excite +watchfulness, it must greatly tend to increase, instead of diminish +feverish symptoms. Dr. Buchan attributes even one cause of the palsy to +drinking much tea or coffee, &c. and, in a note, he subjoins: "Many +people imagine that tea has no tendency to hurt the nerves, and that +drinking the same quantity of warm water would be equally pernicious. +This, however, seems to be a mistake, many persons drinking three or +four cups of warm milk and water daily, without feeling any bad +consequences; yet the same quantity of tea will make their hands shake +for twenty-four hours. That tea affects the nerves is likewise evident +from its preventing sleep, occasioning giddiness, dimness of the sight, +sickness, &c." + +With regard to India teas possessing the quality of exciting the +spirits, this, like every other stimulus, either by constant use loses +its effect, or unnerves the system it is meant to strengthen. The +nerves through which the animal spirits circulate being, like the +strings of a violin or harpsichord, too frequently braced, lose, at +last, their natural tensity, and thus render the human frame one system +of debility. + +Having thus, as briefly as possible, stated that even their ascribed +virtues are either derogatory to all physical principle, or else +destructive to the constitution, from their constant use, the nature of +India teas is next considered, with respect to what appears to be their +chief component parts, from analyzation. + +Teas have been found to consist principally of narcotic salts, some +astringent oil, and earth. These being found in greater quantities in +bohea than in green teas, those who have very sensible and elastic +nerves must be seized with a greater tremor after drinking the former +than the latter. The continual and regular influx of the nervous juices +is stopped by their component fibres being contracted from the +roughness and restringency of such decoctions. The force of the heat, +or the brain's propulsion of its nervous juice, being inferior to the +resistance of the whole ramified fibres thus encreased by the sudden +contraction and unequal motion, the flow of the animal spirits must be +greatly impeded and disordered. In fact, the influx suffers a +suspension, until the fibres, by relaxing again, admit their empty +tubes to receive their appropriated liquids. Thus even green tea must, +especially if taken strong and often, stop the natural circulation of +humours, and produce the attendant defects of depression of spirits, +deficiency of secretion, loss of appetite, decrease of strength, waste +of body, and, finally, a total want of effective vigour in all the +animal functions. But, as above observed, bohea tea possessing in +greater quantity the pernicious ingredients, the vessels are thrown +into momentary spasms and convulsive vibrations, by the relaxing power +of the narcotic salts, and the contracting force of the astringent oil +and earth. And here it must be noticed, that oil mixed with salt is +rendered astringent: thus all vegetables, where a mixture of both +prevails, are reckoned stimulating. The narcotic power of the salt is +derived from its hindering the flux of the animal spirits through the +nerves. + +The stomach and bowels being weakened by the above causes, windy +complaints or flatulencies are consequently produced. This caused Dr. +Whytt, in his advice to patients afflicted with such diseases, to +desire they would abstain from India tea, as one of the flatulent +aliments chiefly to be avoided. + +If the slightest external motion alone produces the following changes +in the body, what effects may not be ascribed to the constant use of +teas, which we find, as before stated, operate internally? A person in +perfect health, having his nostrils only touched with a feather, cannot +avoid his body being so convulsed as to produce what is commonly called +sneezing. But if the number of muscles agitated, the force and +straining of the body by sneezing, are considered; the slightness of +the cause must excite no little astonishment; for this action is +occasioned by the muscles of the scapula, abdomen, diaphragm, thorax, +lungs, &c. and if the sneezing continues, an universal explosion of the +liquids ensues: tears, mucus, saliva, and urine, are excreted. Thus, +without any moist, cold, hot, dry, sulphur, salt, or any other internal +or external application, an involuntary motion of all the solids and +fluids is produced by a feather touching, in the slightest manner, the +inside of our nostrils. But Boerhaave relates further, "That if +sneezing continues a long time, as it will by taking one hundredth part +of a grain of euphorbium up the nose, grievous and continued +convulsions will arise, head-aches, involuntary excretions of urine, +&c., vomitings, febrile heats, and other dreadful symptoms; and, at +last, death itself will ensue." It is therefore evident that the +slightest bodies produce the greatest changes in the human frame. + +Such is the power of certain particles upon the nerves, that the +stomach will be thrown into convulsions that almost threaten an +inversion, by taking only four ounces of a wine in which so small a +portion of glass of antimony as one scruple is infused in eight pounds +of the former. And what is still more remarkable is, that the glass of +antimony remains not only undissolved, but, comparatively speaking, +undiminished in its weight. + +These being a few of the fatal afflictions which experience shews to be +frequently the consequence of drinking India teas, its injurious nature +is too evident to require any further investigation of either their +ascribed or positive qualities. The next subject to be considered, +relative to India teas, is their Preparation. + +Among the different authors of any consequence that have written on the +culture, preparation, and virtues of foreign teas, may be ranked +Kampfer, Postlethwaite, Dr. Cunningham, Priestley, Lemery, Franchus, +Meister, and Sigesbeck; as the limits of this Treatise will not permit +a detail of observations from the whole of these writers, remarks can +only be selected from the most principal of them. Most of the above, +and many other, authors agree that the leaves are spread upon iron +plates, and thus dried with several little furnaces contained in one +room. This mode of preparation must greatly tend to deprive the shrub +of its native juices, and to contract a rust from the iron on which it +is dried. This may probably be the cause of vitriol turning tea into an +inky blackness. We therefore do not think with Boerhaave, that the +preparers employ green vitriol for improving the colour of the finer +green teas. It may however be concluded, from the colour of bohea, +souchong, and such as are called black teas, that they may be thus +tinctured, by the means of vitriol, after they have been dried upon the +iron plates in the furnace room; and this may likewise particularly +cause that astringent quality which is more experienced in all the +black than any of the green teas. According to Sigesbeck, the colours +of these teas are artificial; so that if these pernicious arts are used +even to give the tea a particular colour, there is no difficulty in +ascribing the cause of their injurious effects. + +That the native virtues of these teas are liable to considerable +perversion is evident from the manner in which Meister relates they are +prepared. He says the leaves are put into a hot kettle just emptied of +boiling water, and that they are kept in this closely covered until +they are cold, when they are strewed upon the hot plates above +mentioned for drying. It is easy to conceive how the virtues of a leaf, +however salutary by nature, must be destroyed by such a process. Being +thus put into a steaming kettle, and suffered to remain there until +they are cold, must cause the greatest part of their Virtues to +evaporate, and the leaves to imbibe an unwholesome taint from the +effluvia of the steaming metal. It cannot, therefore, be ascertained +whether teas that are imported in Europe, after such a mutating +preparation, have the least remains of their original odour or flavour, +no more than they have of their qualities; but, on the contrary, it +seems impossible but that the original nature of this shrub is entirely +destroyed by an artificial preparation. Some falsely suppose that this +species of management is only to soften such of the leaves as are grown +too dry, and are therefore liable to break in the curling; but this +will evidently appear not the cause, when it is considered that the +greater part of the teas must dry in such a hot climate while they are +gathering: and as they are particularly anxious to send them in as +curious a curled state as possible, such teas must be thus moistened +again, in order to curl them afterwards in that perfect manner which is +performed on the iron plates of the furnace. + +The opinion, therefore, of teas deriving their green colour from being +dried upon copper being founded on a misrepresentation of the manner in +which they are really prepared, a few observations upon the subject are +indispensibly necessary. For those who have always understood that the +detrimental qualities of foreign teas were the consequence of their +being dried upon copper, may perhaps imagine they cannot be so +pernicious if they were dried upon iron; but this opinion cannot be +entertained by any persons who have the least knowledge of the manner +in which the vegetable acid will corrode iron. Those who are acquainted +with culinary processes must know in what manner the acid of onions +will operate upon any steel instrument; it corrodes a knife so as to +turn the onions black with the particles eaten away from the edge and +the face of the blade. To avoid this unwholsome and unseemly +inconvenience, a wooden instrument is generally used in all instances +where onions form a part of the cookery appendages. It is consequently +evident, that although iron utensils are now greatly used instead of +copper, yet many injurious effects may happen from their being liable +to be corroded by the acid of several vegetables. And if the nitrous +acid of the air will corrode iron so as to cause rust, when it will not +produce the proportionate effect upon copper, it is a demonstration +that iron is the most liable to such a corruption. The corrosions of +copper are undoubtedly pernicious; but the damage that tea would derive +from its being dried upon sheets of this metal would not operate so +injuriously to those who drink it as it does now by lying dried upon +iron. For the latter bring more liable to the power of the mineral, +vegetable, or animal acid, must impart more particles of its reduced +calax to the tea than copper would. And, in order to shew how +susceptible of corrosion iron is, the following instance is farther +adduced: in Ireland, where some persons practise the art of tanning +leather with fern, which possesses a very strong acid, particular care +is taken to avoid using any iron vessels in the tannage, lest the +colour of the leather should be blackened by the corroding particle of +the metal. As it is the peculiar property of iron or steely particles, +even in their most perfect state, to operate as too great an astringent +for an aliment that is taken twice a day constantly, tea, when dried +upon it, must be rendered proportionably pernicious. But admitting that +the popular opinion of their being dried upon copper was just, the teas +must be rendered proportionably injurious to the quantity of copperas +or crude vitriol they imbibe from their acidity corroding the metal. +Preparations of steel, that are, in many instances, considered as most +salutary, yet in all pulmonary disorders the most eminent physicians +have deemed them exceedingly dangerous. And in a country, like Great +Britain, Holland, and other places, where a cloudy atmosphere, caused +from their marshy soil or watery situation, renders most of the +inhabitants subject to complaints of the lungs, foreign teas, +contaminated by these iron corrosions, must be particularly +detrimental. It is therefore, from these considerations, evident, that +foreign teas, by being dried upon iron, have their bad qualities so +increased as to render them the most pernicious of any morning and +evening liquid that has yet been taken.----To return from whence we +began this short digression. + +It is remarkable that no satisfactory account has yet been given in +what the bohea differs from the green tea. Dr. Cunningham, physician to +the English settlement at Cimsan, and Kampfer assert, that the bohea is +the leaves of the first collection. + +This, however, being contrary to the general report of all travellers, +that none of the first produce is brought to Europe, must be +discredited; for these are all preserved for the Princes, to whom they +are sold, even in China, at an immense price. Another proof is, that +the boheas are brought here in the most considerable quantities, at a +price greatly inferior to what even the second, third, and fourth crops +are sold for in China. This not only evinces how inferior in quality +the black tea must be, but also how little they are valued among those +who must be acquainted with their properties. + +Although the European dealers divide the green teas chiefly into three +sorts, and the boheas into five, yet it is unknown from what province +they are brought, of what crop they are the produce, and to which of +the Chinese sorts they belong. + +Added to their abuse of preparation may be that of their package. It is +impossible but to know that their bad qualities must be considerably +augmented by being so closely packed, for such a length of time, in +such slight wooden chests, lined with a composition of wood and lead. +Considerable quantities are likewise damaged by salt water and other +causes, which, by the management of the tea dealers, are mostly mixed, +and sold under different denominations. How the tea must be affected by +the corrosion of the lead and tin by the marine acid, those of the +least chemical knowledge will easily determine. To what danger must, +therefore, the constitution of those who are in the constant habit of +drinking such an empoisoned drug be exposed, may easily be imagined. +Surely, when all these circumstances are considered respecting the +pernicious mode of preparation, and particularly the poisonous +qualities they are also liable to contract from the nature of their +package, every person must be convinced to what a loss of health, if +not of life, the constant use of such teas must expose them. Such +evidence of their deleterious tendency is almost sufficient to alarm +mankind against so prevailing an evil, without any further arguments; +but as health is too precious not to require every possible proof that +can persuade us to avoid what so immediately threatens our existence, +the following arguments and testimonies of the bad qualities of foreign +teas must not be omitted. Previous, however, to an investigation of +their effects, it may be necessary to say a few words respecting + + +THE MANNER OF USING. + +Foreign tea, as before observed, being taken as two principal meals of +our daily aliment, is undoubtedly one great reason of the constitution +of the people having suffered an entire change in its system. That +vigour, spirits, and longevity, which characterised us in the last +century, is totally subverted; disease, dismay, and debility, now lead +us prematurely to the grave, where we end an existence too deplorable +to excite the least desire for a longer continuance. Dr. Priestley +states, very justly, in his Medical Essays, that it is curious to +observe the revolution which hath taken place, within this century, in +the constitutions of the inhabitants of Europe. Inflammatory diseases +more rarely occur, and in general are much less rapid and violent in +their progress than formerly; nor do they admit of the same +antiphlogistic method of cure which was practised with success a +hundred years ago. The experienced Sydenham makes forty ounces of blood +the mean quantity to be drawn in the acute rheumatism; whereas this +disease, as it now appears in the London hospitals, will not bear above +half that evacuation. Vernal intermittents are frequently cured by a +vomit and the bark, without venaesection, which is a proof that, at +present, they are accompanied with fewer symptoms of inflammation than +they were wont to be. This advantageous change, however, is more than +counterbalanced by the introduction of a numerous class of nervous +aliments, in a greater measure, unknown to our ancestors, but which now +prevail universally, and are complicated with almost every other +distemper. The bodies of men are enfeebled and enervated; and it is not +uncommon to observe very high degrees of irritability under the +external appearance of great strength and robustness. The +hypochondriac, palsies, cachexies, dropsies, and all those diseases +which arise from laxity and debility, are, in our days, endemic every +where; and the hysterics, which used to be peculiar to the women, as +the name itself indicates, now attacks both sexes indiscriminately. It +is evident that so great a revolution could not be effected without the +concurrence of many causes; but amongst these, I apprehend, the present +general use of tea holds the first and principal rank. The second cause +may perhaps be allotted to excess in spirituous liquors. This +pernicious custom owes its rise to the former, which, by the lowness +and depression of spirits it occasions, renders it almost necessary to +have recourse to what is cordial and exhilarating; and hence proceeds +those odious and disgraceful habits of intemperance with which too many +of the softer sex of every degree are now, alas! chargeable. These are +the sentiments of a character distinguished for his elaborate +researches and judicious discoveries in almost every branch of liberal +science. It may therefore be safely concluded, that the general manner +of using India tea morning and evening has been, and is, the principal +cause of the greater part of the diseases with which the natives of +Europe are now afflicted. When it is considered that the first meal +which is taken to recruit the body, after the loss it sustains from the +insensible perspiration of the preceding night, and to prepare it for +the avocations of the succeeding day, is India tea, who can be +surprised that nature should rapidly become the victim of disease? +Thus, instead of being supported by nutritious aliment, its nerves are +enfeebled, its spirits diminished, and all its functions enveloped with +the gloom of melancholy. Even in the afternoon, when nature is +exhausted by care and fatigue, we fly for refreshment to tea, which, +instead of bracing, still further relaxes the unnerved system. Such are +the evil effects of the imprudent manner in which this pernicious drug +is so constantly and universally used. But how must these evils appear +in their extent, when the following view is taken of India teas, with +regard to their variety of injurious EFFECTS. + +In all the physical experiments that have been made upon India teas, +there is, perhaps, none that shews its acid astringency more than one +tried by the above writer, Dr. Priestley. Endeavouring to trace the +differences and ascertain the astringency and bitterness of vegetables +reciprocally bear to each other, he imagined he had found they were +distinct and separate properties, by the following experiment: Taking +two pieces of calf-skin just stripped from the calf, he immerged them +in cold infusions of green and bohea tea; at the expiration of a week +he found they were hard and curled up, and that there was no sensible +difference between them. He therefore concluded, that this experiment +afforded a striking proof of India tea differently affecting a dead and +a living fibre; this he considered as the greatest effect of a +medicine. But, with deference to so distinguished an author, I cannot +but attribute this astringency of the skin to the particular properties +of India tea; for all physical as well as medical experience proves +that vegetable produce afford some that are astringent, and others that +are relaxant, of the dead as well as the living fibre. Oak bark is +equally astringent, and hardens the fibres of the hide, as well as it +braces the living nerve of our bodies; therefore the effect produced by +the India tea upon the dead skin only proves, what we have before +related, that an infusion of it has a peculiar effect, which, being too +frequently applied to the nerves, destroys their tensity by their fine +fibres being either broken or relaxed by overbracing. Were any +astringent to be constantly taken, it must ultimately produce more or +less such an effect; so that while the above experiment of the learned +Philosopher demonstrates that India tea has the power of astringing the +dead as well as the living fibres, it does not prove that astringency +bitterness are separate qualities. On the contrary, bitterness seems to +be the characteristic taste of all that has the tendency to contract +whatever is the subject of its application. Thus galls, bark, rhubarb, +camomile tea, &c. &c. are all bitter and astringent. It is, therefore, +the immoderate use of such an astringent that ultimately relaxes and +debilitates: like the too frequent bracing of a drum, or any other +stringed musical instrument, destroys its tensity, the body is unnerved +by the overstretching of its fibres. Although we sometimes differ with +the celebrated Doctor in part of the conclusion he has drawn from his +experiment, yet the following sentiments so perfectly coincide with all +our observations upon India teas, that we are happy to have the +opportunity of corroborating our own with the sentiments of so eminent +a Philosopher. He says, from his experiments, "it appears that green +and bohea teas are equally bitter, strike precisely the same black +tinge with green vitriol, and are alike astringent on the simple fibre. +From this exact similarity in so many circumstances, one should be led +to suppose that there would be no sensible diversity in their operation +on the living body; but the fact is otherwise: green tea is much more +sedative and relaxant than bohea; and the finer the species of tea, the +more debilitating and pernicious are its effects, as I have frequently +observed in others, and experienced in myself. This seems to be a proof +that the mischiefs ascribed to this oriental vegetable do not arise +from the warm vehicle by which it is conveyed into the stomach, but +chiefly from its own peculiar qualities." Dr. Hugh Smith, in his +Treatise on the Action of the Muscles, justly says, that an infusion of +India tea not only diminishes, but destroys the bodily functions. +_Thea infusum, nervo musculove ranae admotum, vires motices minuit +perdit._ Newman, in his Chemistry, says, when fresh gathered, teas +are said to be narcotic, and to disorder the senses; the Chinese, +therefore, cautiously abstain from their use until they have been kept +twelve months. The reason attributed for bohea tea being less injurious +than green is, being more hastily dried, the pernicious qualities more +copiously evaporate. + +"Tea," says Dr. Hugh Smith, in his Dissertation upon the Nerves, "is +very hurtful both to the stomach and nerves. Phrensies, deliriums, +vigilation, idiotism, apoplexies, and other disorders of the brain, are +all produced by the nerves being thus disarranged and debilitated. If +the digestive faculty of the stomach be weakened, the body, failing of +recruiting juices, must tend to emaciation, and the whole frame be +rendered one system of distress and infirmity. The nerves, being thus +deprived of a sufficiency of their animal spirits, must become languid, +and leave every sense void of the first means of conveying to the mind +the only enjoyments of our temporal existence. + +"But if there be any class of persons to whom India tea is more +particularly hurtful than to any other, it is that which includes the +studious and sedentary, and especially those who are enfeebled with +gout, stone, and rheumatism; age, accident, or avocation, cause many +persons to be unfortunately ranked amongst those of the latter +description. These, from their intensity of thought, want of exercise, +injurious position of body, respiration of unwholesome air, and a +variety of other causes, have not only their animal spirits exhausted, +but their liquids corrupted from the loss of a necessary circulation. +With these evils India tea operates as an absolute poison. Indeed, it +frequently renders those incurable, who might, by other means, have +been relieved. + +"When a view is taken of the dismal effects produced by India teas, the +mind seems to be bewildered in searching for the cause of using so +generally a drug that is so universally destructive. It chiefly +originated in a fundamental mistake of physical principles. About the +time that India tea was introduced to Europe, a grievous error crept +into the practice of medical professors; they falsely imagined that +health could not be more promoted than by increasing the fluidity of +the blood. This opinion once established, it is no wonder that mankind, +with one accord, adopted the infusion of India tea, which was then a +novelty to Europe, as the best means of obtaining the above effect. By +the advice of Bentikoe chiefly was the pernicious custom of drinking +warm liquors, night and day, established. To this man, and the +introduction of India tea, may be ascribed that revolution in the +health of Europeans which has happened since the last century. The +present age, therefore, have great cause to lament, in what they suffer +in nervous complaints, that their forefathers did not attend more to +the scientific and judicious advice of the illustrious Duncan, +Boerhaave, and the whole school of Leyden, who proscribed this error. +Although they could not entirely prevent this physical abuse, yet their +zealous endeavours did, in some degree, at first impede its progress; +but, however, so powerful did novelty plead in favour of India teas, +that, at last, general custom and prejudice bore away every barrier +that had been erected by these learned and experienced physicians. This +error, instead of diminishing, has increased: most valetudinarians are +now of opinion that a thick blood is the sole cause of their +complaints; with this impression they adopt what they call the diluent +beverage of India teas. It can scarcely be imagined how many disorders +this practice produces; it may be justly termed the box of Pandora, +without even hope remaining at the bottom." Tissot says, "They are the +prolific sources of hypochondriac melancholy, which both adds strength +to and is one of the worst of disorders." He adds, "with regard to +studious men, who are naturally weak and feeble, such warm beverages +are more hurtful to them than to others; for they are not troubled with +an over thick, but, on the contrary, too thin a blood. You are all +aware," continues he, "respectable auditors, that the density of the +blood is as the motion of the solids; the fibres of the learned are +relaxed, their motions are slow, and their blood, of consequence, thin. +Bleed a ploughman and a doctor at the same time; from the first there +will flow a thick blood, resembling inflammatory blood, almost solid, +and of a deep red; the blood of the latter will be either of a faint +red, or without any colour, soft, gelatinous, and will almost entirely +turn them to water. Your blood, therefore, men of learning, should not +be dissolved, but brought to a consistence; and you should in general +be moderate in the article of drinking, and cautiously avoid warm +spirituous liquors. + +"Amongst the favorite beverages of the learned," the same Tissot +observes, "is the infusion of that famous leaf, so well known by the +name of India tea, which, to our great detriment, has every year, for +these two centuries past, been constantly imported from China and +Japan. This most pernicious gift first destroys the strength of the +stomach, and if it be not soon laid aside, equally destroys that of the +viscera, the blood, the nerves, and of the whole body; so that +malignant and all chronical disorders will appear to increase, +especially nervous disorders, in proportion as the use of India tea +becomes common; and you may easily form a judgment, from the diseases +that prevail in every country, whether the inhabitants are lovers of +tea or the contrary. How happy would it be for Europe, if, by unanimous +consent, the importation of this infamous leaf was prohibited, which is +endued only with a corrosive force derived from the acrimony of a gum +with which it is pregnant." + +Having thus considered the dismal and too frequently fatal consequences +of the nerves being affected, it is presumed this part of the Essay +cannot be more interestingly concluded than by a summary of the +distinct symptomatic effects attending, more or less, complaints of the +nerves; and although the following symptoms are alarming with regard to +their number and variety, yet the reader may be assured there is not +one specified but what is either the immediate or ultimate effect of a +nervous affection, and which is too frequently the consequence of the +violent astringency of foreign tea taken injudiciously as a constant +aliment:--A faintness, succeeded with a delusive vision of motes, +mists, and clouds, falling backwards and forwards before the +distempered sight--A yawning, gaping, stretching out of the arms, +twitching of the nerves, sneezing, drowsiness, and contraction of the +breast--Dulness, debility, distress, and dismay, with a great sense of +weariness--A wan complexion, a languid eye, a loathing stomach, and an +uncertain appetite, which, if not immediately satisfied, is +irremediably lost--Heartburning, bilious vomitings, belchings, pains in +the pit of the stomach, and shortness of breath--Dizziness, inveterate +pains in the temples and other parts of the head, a tingling noise in +the ear, a throbbing of the brain, especially of the temporal +arteries--Symptoms of asthma, tickling coughs, visible inflations, and +unusual scents affecting the olfactory nerves--Sometimes costive and +sometimes relaxed--Sudden flushings of heat, and suffusions of +countenance--In the night, alternate sweats and shiverings, especially +down the back, which seems to feel as if water was poured down that +part of the body--A ptyalism, or discharge of phlegm from the glands of +the throat, which generally attends all the symptoms--Troublesome pains +between the shoulders, pains attended with hot sensations, cramps and +convulsive motions of the muscles, or a few of their fibres--Sudden +startings of the tendons of the legs and arms--Copious and frequent +discharges of pale and limpid urine--Vertigoes, long faintings, and +cold, moist, clammy sweat about the temples and forehead--Wandering +pains in the sides, back, knees, ancles, arms, wrists, and somewhat +resembling rheumatic pains--The head generally warm, while the rest of +the body is cold or chilly--Obstinate watchinqs, disturbed sleep, +frightful dreams, the night mare, startings when awake, and the mind +filled with the most terrific apprehensions--Tremors of the limbs, and +palpitations of the heart--A very variable and irregular +pulse--Periodical pains in the head--A sense of suffocation, frequent +sighings, and shedding of tears--Convulsive spasms of the muscles, +tendons, nerves of the back, loins, arms, hands, and a general +convulsion of the stomach, bowels, throat, legs, and indeed almost +every other part of the body--A quick apprehension, forgetful, +unsettled, and constant to nothing but inconstancy--A wandering and +delirious imagination, groundless fears, and an exquisite sense of his +sufferings--A gradually sinking into a nervous atrophy or +consumption--A perpetual alarm of approaching death--Sometimes +cheerful, and sometimes melancholy--Without present enjoyment or future +expectation of any thing but increasing misery and debility.--If these +symptoms are inconsiderately suffered to continue, they soon terminate +in palsy, hip, madness, epilepsy, apoplexy, or in some mortal disease, +as the black jaundice, dropsy, consumption, &c. + +Having ascertained, from this enquiry, the injurious properties of +India tea, it may naturally be expected that I should propose some +article that might prove more beneficial. With this requisition I shall +most readily comply, although I may expose myself to the invidious +censure of having directed all my efforts to establish the celebrity of +whatever article I may recommend. But being convinced, that, by +publishing the virtue of a tea that I have investigated from physical +analysis and particular observation, I may essentially serve the +public, I am content to suffer the obloquy, provided it is productive +of a general benefit. Having, as before observed, examined, with the +greatest attention, the nature of most articles that have been offered +as morning and afternoon beverage, there are two which claim most +particularly the preference of all others that are sold under the +denomination of Tea: these are, 1st, that which was discovered by that +eminent botanist Sir Hans Sloane; and the other, by a botanist and +physician equally celebrated, Dr. Solander. I therefore, without +considering in what manner the interest of the proprietors of these +teas may be individually affected, propose two articles, in order to +shew that my partiality or opinion of the virtues of the one could not +prejudice me so far as to prevent my allowing due praise to any other +possessing qualities deserving approbation. I am happy to state that, +from my analysis of that invented by Sir Hans Sloane, called British +Tea, I found it possesses most singular virtues for relieving many +nervous complaints; but, from the same trials and experiments made on +that invented by Dr. Solander, I have been convinced that, although the +qualities of the former are exceedingly salutary, they are not so +general in their restoration and nutritious effects as the latter. +Being thus convinced of the extraordinary properties of Dr. Solander's +Tea, I have been induced to state, in a Treatise upon their Nature, +Preparation, and Effects, reasons founded on chemical analysis, +physical efficiency, and experimental observation, in support of their +most eminent virtues. After every trial I have made of coffee, +chocolate[1], and most other preparations that have been, and are at +present, offered to the public as a substitute for tea, none seem to +claim the preference so eminently as that invented by Dr. Solander. +From their analysis, I find their virtues are of the most corrective +and balsamic kind; they strengthen the tone of the stomach, not by +astringing the solids, but by lubricating the vessels, sheathing the +acrids, and attenuating the liquids. + + [1] "_Coffee.--In bilious habits it is very hurtful._" Dr. + Carr's Med. Epist. p. 25. + + "_Coffee.--I cannot advise it to those of hardness of + breathing._" Ibid. p. 29. + + "_Coffee, according to Paule, a Danish physician, enervates men + and renders them incapable of generation, which injurious + tendency is certainly attributed to it by the Turks. From its + immoderate use they account for the decrease of population in + their provinces, that were so numerously peopled before this + berry was introduced among them. Mr. Boyle mentions an instance + of a person to whom Coffee always proved an emetic. He also says + that he has known great drinking of it produce the palsy._ + + "_Chocolate is too gross for many weak stomachs, and + exceedingly injurious to those liable to phlegm and viscid + humours._" Saunders's Nat. & Art. Direct. for Health. + + "_Chocolate overloads the stomach, and renders the juices too + slow in their circulation._" Smith on the Nerves. + +In this manner they restore the equilibrium of the oscillatory motions, +which establish the tone of the nervous system. This being +strengthened, the animal spirits are enabled to dispense their reviving +influence to the sensitive, digestive, and intellectual powers. And +these being thus restored to their vigour of operation, a simple and +moderate portion of food is rendered the most nutritious, and the body +is consequently established in the enjoyment of health and happiness. + +The above virtues of the sanative tea are not here asserted as a +declamatory panegyric, but as the result of a physical analysis of +their nature, and a serious examination into their mode of operating as +a restorative and constant aliment. Without presuming their qualities +to be an unlimited remedy for all complaints, the nature of the +preparation of this tea is compared with the causes and effects of +nervous disorders: from this comparison their relative virtue to such +diseases are most clearly evinced: and thus is this invaluable +discovery proved to be the most effectual remedy for all those +complaints caused by drinking foreign teas, that was ever yet or may be +hereafter invented. + +In proposing to the public any simple or compound, for the preserving, +increasing, or restoring health, the first object should be to explain +its nature. This is the principal test by which its merits can be +known, or mankind rationally induced to try its virtues. And as this +sanative tea is offered as a substitute for what is generally used as +two fourths of our aliment, and which, from the preceding enquiry, has +been found the principal cause of our present infirmities, the greater +necessity there is for a candid investigation of its nature. + +Impressed with the above conviction, it is fairly stated that the +nature of this sanative tea is not from any combination of the animal +or mineral kingdom, but a collection of the most salutary native and +exotic herbs that are produced in the vegetable empire of nature. These +have not been collected by the fanatic devotees of occult qualities, +but by the scientific researches and personal experience of a character +that is equally and justly admired for his philosophical, medical, and +botanical knowledge. The discoverer, Dr. Solander, of this tea, +inquired into the virtues of each native and exotic herb of which it is +composed, not only by abstract reasoning upon its relative qualities, +but by the more immediate evidence of his senses: by submitting each +vegetable to his taste and smell, he derived the most certain physical +proof of its qualities. Thus he knew the particular virtues of each, +and what salutary effects they must, from their preparation as a +compound, produce when applied as a relief for the innumerable diseases +caused by drinking foreign teas. Not confining himself to _English +Plants_, he studied and examined the virtues of _Exotics_, among which +he discovered some that possess virtues he had not found in those of +his own country: by adopting these, he has increased the salutary +effects of his invaluable tea. From reading Hippocrates, Discorides, +and Galen, he found the ancients derived all their knowledge of plants +by their taste and smell. With these examples before him, and his own +propensity to study, joined to his penetrating judgement, it is no +wonder he should have so well succeeded. Thus he recurred to the +original mode of inquiry, which first established and raised the +eminence of physic; neglecting that delusive principle of Aristotle's +philosophy, which has since taught too many physicians to express the +virtue of medicines by hot, cold, moist, and dry, without deriving the +least information from their senses Dr. Solander, aided by chemical +analysis, distinguished the virtue by the taste or odour of every +plant. By this means their specific juices he found tasted either +earthy, mucilaginous, sweet, bitter, aromatic, fetid, acrid, or +corrosive. From this experience he found the observation of some +botanists to be true, "That there is no virtue yet known in plants but +what depends on the taste or smell, and may be known by them."[2] With +this infallible means of pursuing his enquiry, he formed a tea composed +of herbs that are in their nature astringent, balsamic, aromatic, +cephalic, and diaphoretic. These virtues combined may be said to form +one of the most incomparable specifics, as a nutritive and restoring +aliment, that has been discovered. + + [2] _Floyer, Malpighus, Epew, Harvey, Willis, Lower, Needham, + Glisson, &c._ + +In the astringent, the acid fixing upon the more earthly parts, the +nutritious oil is more easily separated, which renders them also +pectoral, cleaning, and diuretic. This part of the tea is in its nature +particularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines are +requisite. They particularly amend the acid in the nervous juice, and +thus restore the equal motion of the spirits, which were obstructed or +retarded by spasms or convulsions. By the volatile oil and volatile +pungent salt, obstructions are opened, and the motions of the languid +blood increased to a healthy degree of circulation. They resolve +coagulated phlegm in the stomach, preserve the fluidity of the juices, +and promote digestion, by assisting the bile in its operation. + +And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualities +warm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalations +from chyle in the prima viae. These, by their sweetness, allay the +sharpness of rheums, and lenify their acrimony. Being filled with an +oily salt, they open the passage of the lungs and kidnies. By opening +the pores, they extraordinarily discuss outward tumours, and attenuate +the internal coagulation. All these virtues may be said to be derived +from the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt. + +By a second class of aromatics, with which Dr. Solander composed this +sanative tea, is such as have a bitter astringency joined to their +volatile oil and salt. These united qualities correct acids in the +stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused +by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in +the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and +succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous +juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and +stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and +correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more +volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics. And as it is the +property of volatiles to ascend, the reason is evident of the brain +being assisted by their salutary qualities. These aromatics likewise +evacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuate +the coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus. And here, it is +proper to add, that all aromatics, by rarefying the blood, are cordial. +There being aromatic astringents in this tea, its infusion strengthens +the fibres and membranes of the stomach, and all the nervous system, in +such a manner as not to destroy their tensity by that too great +contraction caused by the foreign teas; and, having no acid in their +astringency, the blood is preserved from too great a rarefaction, which +would otherwise happen from the pungency of their oily qualities. These +also excite the appetite, by stimulating the natural progress of the +chyle, and thus prevent its too rapid fermentation of its spirituous +parts into windy flatulencies. For the same reason vinegar is taken +with hot meats and herbs. Having mentioned vinegar, it may not be +improper to state this vegetable acid is the best antidote against the +poison of any acrid herbs. That part of the tea which has a +mucilaginous taste is inwardly cooler than oil, although it be +different in nature. Such herbs defend the throat from the sharpness of +rheums, the stomach from corrosive humours of disease or acrimonious +medicines; the ureters from sharp, choleric, or acid urine, and +lubricate the passage for the stony gravel. Their crude parts cool the +heat of scorbutic blood, lessen its violent motion, and sheathe its +acrid saline particles. + +By their different mucilaginous principles they produce the following +various salutary effects: + +The earthy repel and cool outward inflammations. + +The watery, which is thick and gummose, stop fluxes and correct sharp +humours. + +Those of an oily odour alleviate pains. + +Those of a pungent acrid dissolve tartareous concretions in the +kidnies. + +From these and a variety of other salutary properties, it is evident +the general nature of Dr. Solander's tea is such as to correct acrid +humours, promote the secretions, restore the equilibrium between the +fluids and solids, and finally to brace every part of the relaxed +nervous system. The body being thus relieved from obstructions, its +circulations restored, the digestive faculties invigorated, and the +spirits re-animated, the debilitated constitution is reinstated in all +its enjoyments of health and hilarity. It may be therefore observed, +that the principle of this tea is to nourish as a general aliment, +while it renovates the human constitution, without having recourse to +the nauseous portions of galenical preparation, or the hazardous trial +of chalybeate waters. As this tea is particularly salutary in all cases +where mineral waters are generally recommended, it is very proper the +Public should be cautioned against the danger which too frequently +attends the constant drinking of them. + +Chalybeate waters, it must be acknowledged, have effected very +extraordinary cures in certain cases. But when so great an author as +Helmont says, that such waters are fatal to all those who are afflicted +with peripneumonic complaints, it is surely necessary they should be +resorted to with the greatest caution; and even in complaints where +they may be serviceable, it is necessary to observe whether they really +possess those chalybeate qualities for which they are commended. Those +who have written upon their virtues assert, and with seeming propriety, +that where they deposit an ochreous sediment, they are certainly +dispossessed of their steely virtues; for ochre being no other than the +calx of iron, such a residue evinces the evaporation of the more +eminent properties of the chalybeate, by the phlogiston of the mineral +escaping by its extreme volatility. Every metal deprived of this +igneous principle is immediately reduced to a calx, and thus deprived +of its splendour, fusibility, and other properties, until restored +again by the readmission of its phlogiston. Calcined lead having lost +this inflammable quality, is reduced to a red calx or mineral earth, +which, if fluxed with any igneous body, such as oil, pitch, wax, fat, +wood, bone, or mineral oil or bitumen, the fiery principle is resorbed, +and the lead restored to its essential qualities; from these physical +observations the reader may be convinced of those mineral waters as +afford such a sediment being in a state of decomposition. They are thus +deprived of one of the four elements or principles of which they are +all more or less composed. Every analysis of mineral waters in their +perfect state has demonstrated that they possess a fixed air, a +volatile alkali, a volatile vitriolic acid, and the phlogiston. If, +therefore, either of these essential qualities is evaporated or +corrupted, the water, being in a state of decomposition, must lose the +virtues of a medicinal chalybeate. + +It is only necessary to add a few further remarks, in order to shew in +what particular complaints chalybeates, even in their most perfect +state, are pernicious. By this means many of the diseased will be +guarded against a fatal error: and as the prejudice in favour of such +applications is so universally prevalent, it is hoped a few pages +allotted to this subject will be deemed a most essential service to a +deluded community. By removing such a pernicious partiality, the +health, if not the lives of thousands, may be saved, to the great +enjoyment of themselves and their relatives. Dr. Knight says very +justly, "that the explication of the manner of the operation of +chalybeate medicines in human bodies is grounded upon false principles, +and not matters of fact; to wit, that all chalybeate preparations, in a +liquid form, owe their medicinal efficacy to the metal dissolved, +whether in an aqueous or spirituous menstruum, retaining its metallic +texture." To avoid entering into the whole detail of this interesting +argument, it is only here stated in support of the above assertion, +that as mineral waters are impregnated with a combination of sulphurs, +salts, and earth, their virtues cannot be properly ascribed, as they +have been, to the metals which they contain. It might be further +proved, that iron cannot possibly enter the blood, retaining its +essential qualities; for metals in general, except mercury, are +suspended in liquids in _solutis principiis_, or principles disengaged, +which are thus deprived of their metallic properties. Iron, entering +the body as a volatile vitriolic acid, cannot act by its specific +gravity as mercury does; it therefore acts _per accidens_, and not _per +se_. But admitting that waters, however impregnated with iron, are +efficacious in checking all diarrhoea and other profuse evacuations, +by closing the relaxed vessels, and incrassating the fluids, yet as +they prove sometimes so astringent as to stop the natural secretions, +the consequences are frequently cramps, dangerous convulsions, which +often end in fevers, inflammations, and mortifications, their +indiscriminate use should be most cautiously avoided. Chalybeates, thus +contracting the least pervious glands, should not be taken in acute +inflammations, or in any complaints that are attended with a quick and +strong pulse, a plethora, or extravasation of humours. They are equally +dangerous in all nervous contractions, or where the blood is got into +the arteriolae, or capillary vessels. Thus, instead of acting like the +sanative tea, which softens, smoothes, and unbends the two constringed +fibres, the vitriolic salts of this mineral water but more contract the +fibrillae, by operating like so many wedges, which ultimately tear, +rend, or divide the tender filaments. It must, however, be admitted +that mineral waters are very beneficial in cachexies, scurvies, +jaundice, hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. Having paid this +tribute to their virtues, it is evident that what is above stated +respecting their pernicious effects has been dictated by candour, and +with no illiberal disposition to deny their absolute virtues[3]. These +few remarks have only been made in order to warn the community against +a prevailing and indiscriminate use which might otherwise, in many +complaints, prove at least fatal to their health, if not to their +existence. And as the tea discovered by Dr. Solander possesses all the +virtues of the chalybeate, without its dangerous principles, it was an +immediate duty not only to warn but direct the Public in their adoption +of an aliment so essential to their health, and consequently temporal +happiness. + + [3] _Waters drank at their source are efficacious in many + complaints that are not accompanied with inflammatory symptoms; + but if they are drank after a long or short conveyance, their + effects must be proportionably injurious instead of beneficial._ + + +PREPARATION. + +As the native and exotic herbs of this tea are dried in a pure air, +without any artificial means of preparation to improve their colour or +increase their natural astringency, they must be free from those +deleterious, corrosive, and violent contractive effects with which we +have observed the general and indiscriminate use of foreign teas and +mineral waters are attended. In the first part of this Essay, it was +stated that foreign teas were dried upon iron, and thus produced those +astringent effects we have seen to characterize chalybeate waters. It +is therefore evident, that the simple preparation of these salutary +herbs being free from what renders teas and mineral waters in many +cases pernicious, must leave their qualities pure and unadulterated, +according to the intent and principle of nature in their production. +They are, therefore, found particularly free from those injurious +properties which render green tea so destructive to emaciated +constitutions. Instead of being, like the above foreign tea, hurtful to +those worn down by a long fever, or such as have weak and delicate +stomachs, their qualities are in such complaints essentially nutritious +and restorative. That stimulating roughness, which foreign teas imbibe +from their iron preparation, is not to be found in the sanative tea +discovered by Dr. Solander; the latter is therefore very beneficial +where the mucous coat of the bowels is very thin, or the ramification +of the nerves numerous, extensive, and exquisitely sensible of +impression. The cholic, gripes, or painful prickings of the nervous +coat by the India teas, are allayed by the drinking of the sanative +tea, from its tepid and lubricating nature not being perverted by any +corrosive preparation. To thin and meagre bodies, which are greatly +affected by green and bohea teas, the above is a most restorative +aliment. The atrophy and diabetes, so frequently caused by the foreign +teas, are, from the herbs of Dr. Solander's tea possessing their +natural nutritious qualities uncontaminated by metallic preparation, +often cured by using it as a morning and evening beverage; and the +depression of spirits occasioned by green and bohea, and which induces +many of its drinkers to take sal volatile, or spirits of hartshorn, is +avoided by the sanative tea; for the latter is found one of the +greatest and most salutary exhilarators of the nervous system. And thus +those who drink it as a constant aliment, are saved from the dangers +that attend rendering the blood too thin by the use of the above +volatile alkalies, or drams, which are too frequently taken to avoid +that lowness of spirits caused by the great, sudden, and violent +contraction of the nervous fibrillae. As the inconveniencies of the +foreign teas arise from the metallic properties derived from their +preparation, the advantages of the sanative tea are evidently seen to +arise from the preparation being such as leaves every herb possessed of +its natural and essential quality. This clearly evincing the +superiority of Dr. Solander's tea to every herbal beverage, it only +remains to proceed to the two remaining enquiries respecting the mode +of using and the effects of this salutary combination of vegetables. +The next subject, therefore, of investigation is the + + +MANNER OF USING. + +As the time of drinking this tea is morning and evening, it is +necessary to enquire whether its qualities are such as are calculated +to suit the temporary necessities of nature at those periods. From what +has been observed respecting foreign teas, it is evident that their +properties are diametrically opposite to those which nature at such +times requires. When the body is exhausted by insensible perspiration, +the most requisite aliment is that which can equally restore the loss +of the solids and the languid flow of the animal spirits. What is then +taken ought therefore to be neither too heavy for the state of the +unbraced system; nor too volatile, to afford a sufficient quantity of +nutritive juices to the whole animal economy. Nor should the aliment be +so stimulating as to disorder instead of re-establishing the equalized +motion of the yet perturbed state of the animal spirits. What is then +given should have the power of sedating the nervous fluids, while it +disseminates through the viscera the elements of nutrition. These being +the requisite properties of what is taken as a breakfast, it remains to +consider whether those of the sanative tea are adequate to such +indispensible purposes. + +In the preceding part of this enquiry, it has been found that the +principal qualities of this tea are moderately astringent, balsamic, +and aromatic; it is therefore evident, that, from a combination of +these eminent medical principles, this tea must operate as a sedator of +perturbation, a renovator of exhausted solids, and an exhilarator of +nervous depression. It may therefore be used as a morning beverage with +the greatest advantage, for the preservation and re-establishment of +health; for never were the qualities of any aliment so particularly +adapted to the necessities of the body at any stated period as those of +the sanative tea are at the time of breakfast. Without loading the +exhausted viscera, they afford it a sufficiency of balsamic and +nutritive aliment; nor does the sanative tea, by sedating the +fluttering spirits, destroy their vigour; but, on the contrary, by +calming their motion, they contribute more active energy by promoting +their equalized progress; and thus is the animal economy restored to +the proper use and enjoyment of its functions. And in proportion as the +spirits are restored to an equilibrium of motion and fluidity, the +relaxed tone of the nerves is recovered, and the whole functions of man +rendered capable of exercise and enjoyment. + +The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of the +sanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider what +benefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon. + +At this time the body is in a very different state of temperature from +that of the morning. By the toil, care, study, or amusement of the +former part of the day, the solids are wasted, and the fluids in a +state of ferment and evaporation. Added to this, the aliment which is +taken at dinner time so exhausts the animal warmth, as to leave the +whole body in a state of refrigeration. What is therefore taken in this +situation should be neither relaxing, constipating, nor heating; it +should possess a genial warmth, a cordial assistant, and a restorative +nutriment. The first should be such as to supply the deficiency of +warmth which the body feels by the act of digestion, without inflaming +the blood, or too greatly increasing the pulse. The second, or cordial +assistant, should rather increase the powers of the body than those of +the heart; for the force of the heart may be increased to the detriment +of health. This is evident from a weakness of the body being the +consequence of the force of the heart being increased in an +inflammatory fever. And with regard to what is taken in the afternoon +requiring a restorative nutriment, it is necessary that it should be +light, pure, and wholesome, lest its solidity and heaviness should +oppress the bowels at a time when their tone is relaxed by recent +fatigue and digestion. These qualities being the most proper to produce +fresh animal spirits, are the most fit to be taken when a new accession +of them is necessary. It has been observed those are the most robust +whose serum resembles most the white of an egg. It has therefore been +most rationally concluded, that the origin of the animal spirits is +from aliments capable of being changed into a similar substance, but so +attenuated by incalation as to concrete by fire. For this reason the +greatest support of the spirits is afforded by light and nourishing +meats and drinks, which in taste and smell are even agreeable to +infants. All cordials and aromatics are consequently the most proper +for such purposes, and at such times, when heavier foods would impress, +instead of recruiting, the exhausted solids and fluids. It is therefore +Boerhaave recommends such aromatics, for the reviving and recruiting +the animal spirits, as have the most pleasing taste and smell. +Agreeably to this opinion, Dr. Solander employed his researches to form +an afternoon beverage of such herbs as should possess all the above +cardiac and balsamic qualities. The use of the sanative tea between +dinner and supper operates as the most reviving and wholesome aliment +that can, at such a time, be possibly taken. An enquiry having been +made into the nature, preparation, and manner of using the sanative +tea, there only remains to conclude this Second Part of the Essay with +the consideration of its + + +EFFECTS. + +From the view that has been taken of the nature, preparation, and +manner of using, the salutary effects are most clearly and easily to be +ascertained. As the basis of this tea is the combined principle of the +most balsamic oils, nutritious salts, and animating sulphurs, which the +vegetable world produces, their effects must be proportionably +salutary. And as their combination is such as to correct the pernicious +qualities of each other, their conjoint effect must be the most +wholesome that can possibly be administered for the health of human +nature. As every simple, however specific in certain cases, possesses +qualities that are pernicious in other respects, it has been the first +principle of physical enquiry not only to find the basis of a medicine, +but to form compounds or ingredients that corrected the injurious +tendency of each other. With this scientific principle Dr. Solander +having composed his sanative tea, has rendered it the most general +specific in its effects of any medicinal aliment. + +This tea affording a compound oil, which is formed of the most aromatic +vegetables the earth affords, it is no wonder its effects, like honey, +should approach so near a general specific. The invaluable oils, +uniting with the sulphurs of the sanative tea, recruit, soften, and +lubricate the juices, diminish the too great elasticity, dryness, and +crispness of the nervous fibres, and afford the exhausted liquids fresh +supplies. Their effects are consequently exceedingly restorative in all +cases, where the force of the fibres and the vessels are too strong, +the circulation too rapid, and the blood too attenuated or diminished; +as it prevents the too quick action of the solids, and the too rapid +motion of the blood, the body is nourished, and the mind prepared for +the refreshment of sleep when the approach of night invites to repose. +In spitting of blood its effects are particularly beneficial. The oil +being easily detached from the earth of the plant is, in such cases, +exceedingly nutritive, and, by its checking the stimulation, and +sheathing the acrimony of the humours, the blood is replenished with +the most healing and balsamic virtues. + +In pleurisies, ulcers, and abscesses of the lungs, hectic fevers, dry +coughs, night sweats, and difficulty of breathing, the balsamic oil and +sulphur of this tea is most salutary. + +The dropsical, phlegmatic, corpulent, cathetic, and all such as are in +their stamina relaxed, will find the greatest relief in its constant +use; and to those who are emaciated, either from hereditary or acquired +disease, it is particularly beneficial. + +In seasons when experience informs us that the blood requires cleansing +and attenuating, this tea will be of considerable service to the +healthy as well as the diseased. By these means the constitution will +be preserved and restored from all those chronic and acute afflictions, +which are the consequences of acrimonious humours and foulness of +blood. + +As this tea produces the effects of cleansing the stomach, promoting +digestion, diluting the chyle, and invigorating the whole viscera, it +should be constantly drank by those who live freely. + +Unlike most medicinal applications, this tea requires no previous +preparation of the body. Such are its nature and progression of +effects, that it first renders the body in a state suitable to receive +succeeding benefits; nor is it dangerous, like mineral waters, to which +persons afflicted with nervous complaints generally resort. Persons +suffering acute or inflammatory diseases, or who have their vessels too +greatly constringed, need not be under the apprehensions of suffering +scirrhuses, or even death, which is the confluence of drinking, in such +cases, mineral waters; but, on the contrary, they may expect to +receive, from the use of the sanative tea, the most beneficial effects, +not only in the above, but also in the gout and rheumatism, from its +moderate use producing a gentle perspiration. + +To account for the variety of salutary effects that this valuable +discovery produces, we shall now proceed to consider its operation as a +medicine and an aliment, which will afford the most convincing and +conclusive arguments that can be possibly adduced in favour of its +sanative qualities. + +To consider its medicinal properties or effects, it is necessary to +state in what manner it acts first upon the solids, next upon the +fluids, and lastly, how it operates upon both together; for on these +three principles the power and quality of a medicine solely depend. In +acting upon the solids, it either alters their texture and cohesion, +or, by diluting the canals, change the figure of the sides. But a +medicine acting upon fluids only either alters their properties, or +brings them out of the body. All medicines, however, act as well upon +the solids as the fluids; for the latter can scarcely be altered +without in some degree affecting the former. + +As all medicines derive the greatest qualities from their filling, +evacuating, or altering the smallest parts, the sanative tea possesses +the most restorative properties from its action upon the smallest +nervous vessels, and not in the arteries, veins, glands, lymphatic and +adipose vessels. Thus, as all augmentation and accretion of the greater +depend on the extension of the smallest lateral vessels, which are +nervous tubuli, the nutrition and restitution of what is wasted must be +considerably derived from the constant use of this beverage morning and +evening. From this the medicinal effects of the tea upon the solids are +found to be consistent with the first of physical principles; for the +nutrition of the solids, which is made by the application of any part +to the place of a wasted part, is always effected in the smallest +canals, of which the greater consist. + +And as every salutary change of the fluids is made in the smallest +vessels, the sanative tea possessing the power of conveying nutrition +into the most minute channels of the body, the liquids must derive from +it the greatest renovation. + +From this combined effect upon the solids and liquids, the strength of +the greater vessels is increased, and thus is the whole aggregate body +invigorated; for every artery derives its energy from its sides, which +are composed of the minutest vessels. To enter into a complete detail +of its medicinal principles, would require a volume itself; we must +therefore avoid any further enquiry of its effects as a physical +remedy, in order to leave a few lines for its consideration as an +aliment. + +The qualities of an aliment chiefly depend on their nature affording +that nourishment which is proper to the time of taking and the state of +the body. Indeed, without their possessing these relative properties, +either meats or drinks are injurious instead of beneficial. For this +reason physical necessity, more than tyrant custom, has caused a +thinner aliment to be taken in the morning and evening than what forms +the meals of dinner and supper. This necessity arises from the state +of the body being in the morning just recovering its spirits from a +comparative state of relaxation and imbecility, and in the afternoon +from the stomach being enfeebled by recent digestion. That the body, +immediately after sleep, is in a relaxed state, may be perceived by the +perturbation the spirits experience from any surprise or violent action +instantly succeeding. Fits and faintings have frequently been the +consequence of persons of quick sensibilities being wakened. In such a +state of relative debility, gross and solid food must oppress the +spirits, and thus render the body incapable of deriving nourishment +from such an untimely aliment. But if what is taken is light, pure, and +apt for producing chyle, the stomach being capable of digesting it, +must turn it to the most wholesome nutrition. To attain this end, +foreign teas, from their lightness, have been universally adopted; but, +as we have found, from their nature, how ill adapted they are to be +given when the nerves are already too weak to bear their violent +astringency, such should be used as are possessed of the most +nutrition, without a tendency to irritate the relaxed fibrillae. + +When the stomach is enfeebled by recent digestion in the afternoon, to +take then another meal of solid aliment must evidently tend to depress +the digestive powers, and thus prevent the body from having that +nourishment it might receive from a lighter aliment. + +The sanative tea being found, from the preceding enquiries, to possess +the most active, subtle, penetrating, and balsamic compound oils, +salts, and sulphurs, which pervade, without irritation, the minutest +canals, must afford that species of aliment which the body in a morning +and afternoon requires. While it attenuates, it restores the tone and +substance of the juices, strengthens the solids, invigorates every +natural function, and thus affords the means of enjoying all the +comfort that a healthy body and a happy mind can bestow. + + +THE END. + + + + +DR. SOLANDER's +SANATIVE ENGLISH +TEA. + +UNIVERSALLY APPROVED AND RECOMMENDED +BY THE MOST +EMINENT PHYSICIANS, +IN PREFERENCE TO FOREIGN TEA, +As the most Pleasing and POWERFUL RESTORATIVE, +IN ALL +NERVOUS DISORDERS, +HITHERTO DISCOVERED. + + +Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste of +the body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry is +important, whether INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur in +pronouncing a species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears the +substance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose--If it be +not--the inquiry is further necessary to find out a proper substitute. +If an Apozem PROFESSIONALLY approved and recommended for its nutritive +qualities, as a general aliment, has claim to public attention, +certainly Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, so sanctioned, is the most proper morning +and afternoon's beverage. + +Prepared for the Proprietor by an eminent Botanist. + +Sold Wholesale and Retail by the Proprietor's Agent, Mr. T. GOLDING, at +his Warehouse for Patent Medicines, No. 42, Cornhill, London; and +Retail by Mr. F. NEWBERY, No. 45, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mess. +BAILEY'S, Cockspur-street; Mr. W. BACON, No. 150, Oxford-street; Mr. +OVERTON, No. 47, New Bond-street; and by Mr. J. FULLER, Covent-Garden, +near the Hummums. Also, by the Venders of Patent Medicines in every +City and Town, in England, Ireland and Scotland. + +Sold in Packets at 2s. 9d. and in Cannisters at 10s. 6d. each, Duty +included. Liberal Allowance for Exportation, to Country Venders and to +Schools. + +The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, +being gathered and dried with peculiar attention, to the preserving of +their sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many +similar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have those +Qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. + +A Packet of this Tea at 2s. 9d. is sufficient to Breakfast one Person a +Month. + + + + +DIRECTION +FOR MAKING +DR. SOLANDER's TEA. + +Two or three tea-spoonfuls of this Tea being put into a tea-pot, or a +covered bason, pour boiling water upon it, and let it remain a short +time in a state of infusion.--After using milk and sugar agreeably to +the taste, drink it moderately warm. A few tea-cups full are sufficient +for breakfast, tea in the afternoon, or any other time a person may +think proper. + + * * * * * + + The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose this Tea, being + gathered and dried with peculiar attention to the preserving their + Sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many + similar Preparations, which, by being reduced to Powder, must have + those qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. + + * * * * * + +A CAUTION. + +The high estimation in which Dr. Solander's Tea is held, by the first +circles of fashion, as a general beverage--the many cures it has +effected--and the pleasantness of its flavor having induced several +unprincipled persons to prepare and vend a base and spurious +preparation under a similar title; the Proprietor, in justice to the +known efficacy of this Tea, and to secure his property from further +depredations, has thought proper to have an engraved copper-plate +affixed to the canisters and packets of the genuine and original +preparation of Dr. Solander's Sanative English Tea. This plate being +entered at Stationer's Hall as the Act directs, Aug. 20, 1791, will +subject such persons as imitate the same to a consequent prosecution. +The Public are therefore cautioned from purchasing any article but what +is distinguished by the said plate, and to observe thereon the words +specified as above, of its being entered according to Act of +Parliament. + + + + +DR. SOLANDER's TEA. + + +This CELEBRATED TEA is peculiarly efficacious in most inward wasting, +loss of Appetite, Hysterical Disorders and Indigestion, depression of +Spirits, trembling or shaking of the Hands or Limbs, obstinate Coughs, +Shortness of Breath, and Consumptive Habits; it purifies the Blood, +eases the most violent pains of the Head and Stomach, and is a +wonderful Assuager of the excruciating pains of the Gout and +Rheumatism, by promoting gentle Perspiration. By the NOBILITY and +GENTRY this Tea is much admired as a fashionable BREAKFAST; being +pleasant to the taste and smell, gently astringing the fibres of the +stomach, and giving them that proper tensity, which is requisite to a +good digestion; and nothing can be better adapted to help and nourish +the Constitution after late hours, or making too free with wine. + +This Sanative Tea is highly esteemed in the East and West Indies, being +unlike INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur in pronouncing a +species of Slow Poison that unnerves and wears the substance of the +solids; on the contrary, this nourishes and invigorates the Nervous +System, acts as a GENERAL RESTORATIVE CORDIAL, upon debilitated +Constitutions, and is a sovereign remedy in Bilious Complaints +contracted in hot climates. + +In the Measles and Small Pox, nothing need be given but a plenty of +this Tea; drank warm at Night it promotes refreshing rest, and, as +such, is a regular afternoon's beverage with many aged and infirm +Persons. Being of peculiar service to children, and such who are +weakly, many Parents, and others, having the care and education of +Females, exclude the use of any other than this salubrious Tea. + +By the Studious and Sedentary, this CELEBRATED TEA is justly considered +as a MENTAL PANACEA, from its sovereign efficacy in removing complaints +of the head, invigorating the mind, improving the memory, and +enlivening the imagination. + +The Proofs of Efficacy of Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, being so numerous, would +far exceed the limitation of a Pamphlet; the Public are therefore +required to accept the following abridged List of Cures as Specimens: + + +CASE I. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +HAVING long languished under a severe depression of spirits, an almost +continual cough, and to all appearance, a confirmed consumption, being +afflicted with violent pains in my head and breast, together with a +total lassitude of body and limbs.--I was so weak and emaciated that +all my friends and acquaintance apprehended, I could not survive many +Weeks. In that unhappy condition, an eminent Physician recommended me +to your SANATIVE ENGLISH TEA, in the use of which I persevered for +several weeks, with the happiest effect, and am now perfectly cured by +that salutary and invaluable Medicine. Happy in the opportunity of +contributing my endeavours to alleviate the distresses of humanity, I +hereby authorise you to publish my case, with my earnest recommendation +of your Sanative Tea, to all persons afflicted with nervous and other +consumptive disorders, and am, Sir, your humble servant, + +NICHOLAS SANDYS. + +N.B. My near relation SAMUEL SANDYS, Esq. No. 61, Berner-street, +and many of my friends, will testify to the truth of the above. + + +CASE II. + +Mrs. JONES, of Hammersmith, was for several years afflicted with a +bilious and nervous complaint, being recommended by a friend, who (in +an obstinate cough attended with spitting of blood) had experienced the +peculiar efficacy of Dr. Solander's Tea, was at last persuaded to make +trial of it, when in a few months she was perfectly restored to health +and spirits, by the use of this celebrated Tea. + + +CASE III. + +Mr. BRYANT, No. 7, King-street, Bethnal-green, for twenty years was +violently afflicted with a nervous disorder, but by the constant +drinking the Sanative English Tea is now enjoying a good state of +health. + + +CASE IV. + +CAPT. R. SMITH, of Liverpool, after a severe nervous fever, was very +much afflicted with violent Pains in his breast, attended with a +continual cough and excruciating head-ache, which entirely deprived him +of rest, and reduced him to a mere skeleton; being persuaded to drink +Dr. Solander's tea, was recovered to health and strength by that +salubrious panacea. + + +CASE V. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +FOR some Years past I had been violently afflicted with a slow nervous +fever attended by a continual head-ache, a total loss of appetite, and +a very bad digestion, by which I was reduced to a deplorable state of +languor and dejection of spirits. After being attended by many Doctors, +and taking a variety of Medicines, my husband, Mr. JOHN TOD, hearing +from several persons with whom he was acquainted, of the wonderful +effects your excellent Tea had done in nervous disorders, in various +Families with whom, in his extensive acquaintance, he was well known, +urged me much to drink the Tea; which I began in the Morning for +breakfast, and in a few days I found myself much better, and was much +pleased with so grateful a remedy. I continued it for some time; and I +do assure you I am now entirely recovered, and enjoy a perfect state of +health, without any medical assistance whatever. I am therefore +prompted to send you this, in gratitude for the benefit I have +received, requesting you will make what use of it you think proper, as +it may be of the same benefit to others. + +I am, Sir, your very humble servant, + +FRANCES TOD. +Rum and Brandy Warehouse, +No. 8, Little Carter-lane, Doctor's Commons, +Feb. 20, 1790 + + +CASE VI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +WHEN I arrived in England some time ago, I was distressed with a severe +depression of the spirits, a very violent cough, and as all my friends +thought in a declining consumptive habit of body; my brother hearing +the efficacy of your Sanative Tea much praised, bought me a cannister, +and begged I would use it according to the directions given with it, +which I did, and had a tea-pot of it standing at my bed-side every +night, (for as I was very restless and very feverish) drinking it at +intervals, and likewise in the morning; before it was all out I was +entirely recovered, and have at this time good spirits, good appetite, +and good health. I therefore recommend it much. I am, Sir, &c. + +MARY MULLARKY. +No. 11, York-street, London-road, +Sept. 29, 1792 + + +CASE VII. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S _Sanative Tea_. + +A near relation of mine being afflicted with a violent nervous +disorder, owing to a fright which happened to her in her lying-in, so +much so, as nearly to deprive her of reason; her intellects were for +some time, very much impaired, and she was reduced to a state of +despondency; she was attended by many eminent physicians, and took many +of her apothecary's draughts, &c. but without success, until she was +persuaded to try your Sanative Tea, by several of her acquaintances, +who had proved its good qualities, which she made use of six weeks, and +in which time she found herself perfectly recovered from such alarming +disorder. In justice to so valuable and elegant a medicine, I cannot +omit giving you this information, that it may be published for the +benefit of the community at large, being fully persuaded of its +excellent qualities. I am, Sir, &c. + +RICHARD ANDREWS. +No. 20, Cross-street, Surry, +Oct. 16, 1792. + + +CASE VIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +FOR a long time I was frequently afflicted with a nervous disorder in +my head and stomach, was exceedingly ill and low spirited, and often +confined to my bed; I had a variety of things prescribed for me by +gentlemen of the faculty, but without effect, my disorder still +returning; till your Sanative Tea was recommended to me: I resolved to +try it, and it so much pleased me in taste and satisfaction of +drinking, that I made it my constant morning and evening Tea, and +continued it for some time, and quickly found my health better, my +spirits good, and have now entirely got rid, by its means, of all my +illness, and am in good health; therefore I am glad to send this +information, in justice to the virtues of the Sanative Tea, +recommending it to every one who may be afflicted with any such +dreadful complaints I laboured under. I remain, Sir, your humble +servant, + +MARY SMYTH, +Mistress of the School. +Blackfriars School, near Ludgate-Hill, +Nov. 16, 1792. + + +CASE IX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. + +ABOUT twelve months ago, my daughter was afflicted with violent pains +in her stomach, occasioned as was supposed, by drinking strong green +tea for breakfast, without eating therewith--I had the assistance of +several gentlemen of the faculty, but to no purpose; as her complaint +grew worse almost daily; and it was the general opinion that she was in +a decline. Anxious for the safety of my child, I tried many advertised +medicines without success; till seeing in the County Chronicle the many +cures performed by your Sanative Tea, I wrote to a Friend in London to +procure me some of it; he readily acquiesced, and sent me a few packets +of the Tea as a present: In a short time her complaint was much abated, +and continuing the use of it a few weeks, she was restored to perfect +health:--in justice to the merits of your Tea, you have my consent to +make whatever use you please of this token of acknowledgement. I +remain, Sir, your obliged humble servant, + +FRED. BLAKELEY. +Barsford, near Needham, Suffolk, +March 10, 1793. + + +CASE X. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. + +HAVING been afflicted with obstructions, attended with a continual +cough and violent pains in my head and breast--I applied to many +physicians and apothecaries, without finding relief, till I drank your +Sanative Tea, which has entirely cured me. I think it my duty to send +you this acknowledgement, in justice to you and the Public at large. I +am, Sir, &c. + +ANN ROYAL. +No. 63, St. John street, near the Green-Walk, +Christ-church, Surry, +March 18, 1793. + + +CASE XI. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +BEING much afflicted with a slow fever, very nervous, and much subject +to fits, a violent oppression at my stomach, and total loss of +appetite; I was continually taking physic of various descriptions, but +found no relief. Having heard your Sanative Tea highly praised, I +resolved to try it, and found myself in a short time much better. I +have continued drinking it ever since, and at present enjoy so perfect +a state of health, that I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude for +the benefit I have experienced. I therefore send you this, recommending +it much to every person so afflicted with illness as I was, giving you +full liberty to make this known as you may think proper. I am, &c. + +CATHARINE CLOVER. +Ormond-Place, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, +March 24, 1793. + + +CASE XII. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH SANATIVE TEA. + +HAVING had recourse to several medicines and prescriptions, for +internal weakness and indigestion, without the desired effect, I was +advised to make trial of your Sanative Tea, as a medicine. I +accordingly furnished myself with two parcels, and found it very +agreeable and pleasant; and in a short time I had the satisfaction of +feeling the good effects of this pleasing and salutary medicine; and to +confirm the services received from it, I am determined, for the future, +to drink it instead of foreign teas, because I think it more grateful +than any thing yet presented to the public as a stomatic; therefore in +justice to your valuable discovery for the public good, you are welcome +to communicate this information to the world at large; with the +sincerest wishes for the general use of your excellent Tea. I am, Sir, +&c. + +RICHARD EDWARDS. +No. 37, Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, +June 13, 1793 + + +CASE XIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +BEING very much afflicted with a violent head-ache for a great many +years, I some time ago heard a great praise of the Sanative Tea; I +tried it and thought it did me good, and by continuing the use of it, +it has entirely taken away my old head-ache, and I find myself much +better, and am now quite well. Indeed it has done me more good than I +could expect, as the head-ache is particularly our family complaint. I +likewise recommended it to my brother, James Robertson, of Bradfield, +Essex, and it has had the same good effects on him. Also my sister, +Mrs. Shibley, of Battle-bridge, has experienced its salutary effects; +therefore in justice to so excellent a thing, I send you this, hoping +others troubled with a constitutional head-ache, will make use of it. I +am, Sir, your obedient servant, + +RATCLIFF ROBERTSON. +No. 10, Great Shire-lane, Temple-bar, +June 26, 1793 + + +CASE XIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +ABOUT two years ago, I was attacked with a nervous disorder in my head, +which violently afflicted my whole frame. I had no rest, and +oftentimes, for want of sleep, at intervals, lost my senses--being much +troubled with frights and startings, the disorder increased, till most +of my friends expected I should soon die. I took many things without +benefit, till an acquaintance recommended me to use the Sanative Tea. I +began to drink it in the night, being always very thirsty; I thought in +two or three nights that I was easier; I therefore continued it, and +not only drank it in the night, but used it constantly, and left off +drinking India tea. I gradually got better, and am now quite recovered, +having got rid of head-ache, startings, &c. I therefore wish to +recommend it for its excellence to all my sex; and beg you will accept +of this, hoping it may be useful. + +I am, Sir, your humble servant, + +MARY SHAW. +No. 24, Cross-street, St. George's-Fields, +July 10, 1793. + + +CASE XV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea_. + +INDUCED by a friend of mine to make use of your Tea, as an excellent +medicine for the loss of appetite, bad digestion, and great relaxation +of the whole frame, with which I had been afflicted a long time, I have +found more relief from it, than from any other medicine I have yet had +recourse to, and am convinced it has qualities superior to any thing of +the kind; and considering it as worthy of public attention, I give you +my approbation of the services it has done me. I am, your humble +servant, + +JOHN MIDDLETON, +Pencil-maker. +No. 11, Turnagain-lane, Snow-hill, +July 19, 1793. + + +CASE XVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER's TEA. + +HEARING of the virtues of your Tea, in nervous complaints and +indigestions, and being among my friends much persuaded to try it, I +soon found, by drinking it for breakfast, the good effects arising from +it; your Sanative Tea having operated entirely to my wish, from its +pleasing as well as its medicinal qualities. I continued to use it, at +least once a day, and as a means of disclosing its virtues shall +continue to recommend it in the circle of my acquaintance. Your humble +servant, + +PETER CAPPER. +No. 14, Lambeth-walk, +Aug. 8, 1793. + + +CASE XVII. _To the Proprietor of the English Sanative_ TEA. + +A Servant of mine having been in a continual state of pain, from what +the doctors deemed a rheumatic complaint, for the space of eight +months, and appearing to be of a consumptive habit of body, attended +with a total depression of spirits, a perpetual cough, and extreme +weakness of limbs; which threatened her dissolution. Hearing frequently +of the surprising efficacy of your Sanative Tea, I bought some for her, +and the happy effects it has produced, urges me strongly to speak in +its great praise; therefore, I send you this, hoping her case may be of +service to make the virtues of your Sanative Tea, universally known. + +I am, SIR, &c. + +JOSEPH SWALLOW. +No. 3, Clarence-place, St. George's, Southwark, +Aug. 20, 1793. + + +CASE XVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +BEING afflicted with a nervous head-ache, and trembling of the hands, +lowness of spirits, and bad appetite, a friend of mine wished very much +I would drink the Sanative English Tea; which upon drinking, instead of +other Tea for breakfast, I found myself much better, and am now quite +well; my hands being perfectly steady, which is of great advantage to +me, I being a writing stationer; besides my appetite is good, and I +feel myself in every respect so well, that I am persuaded I do good to +the community, in begging you will make this publicly known. Yours, &c. + +J. CLARKE +No. 16, Newcastle-court, Butcher-row, Temple-bar, +Sept. 6, 1793. + + +CASE XIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S SANATIVE TEA. + +FOR many years I had been violently afflicted with acute pains +in my head, a nervous disorder, and lowness of spirits, and took many +medicines from apothecaries, but found no benefit; till lately a friend +speaking very much in praise of the Sanative Tea; it induced me to +drink it, instead of other tea; and I have found it so happily relieved +me, that I am induced to send you this, to recommend it for such +complaints, to all nervous people. I am, &c. + +ROSANNAH WYNNE. +No. 62, South Audley-street, Grosvenor-square, +Sept. 10, 1793. + + +CASE XX. _To the Proprietor of the._ SANATIVE TEA. + +I cannot with-hold my praise of your Sanative Tea, having received so +much benefit by its efficacy; for having been a long time oppressed +with a severe head-ache, and low spirits, and little or no appetite, I +was recommended to drink your tea, which, to my great surprise, very +soon restored me to health; I therefore wish this to be made public for +the good of others. + +ALICE MASON. +No. 18, Upper ground, Blackfriars-Bridge, +Sept. 18, 1793. + + +CASE XXI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +Mrs. HAYDEN being much affected with an oppression at her stomach, very +low spirits, and other complaints attending a nervous disorder, for a +long time past, after taking various prescriptions of her doctors, +without effect, she was persuaded to try your Sanative Tea, which +proved most salutary, and she is now perfectly restored to health; and +takes this method to recommend it to Ladies troubled with the same +complaints. + +I am, Sir, your obedient servant, + +ROBERT HAYDEN, +Sadler. +Knightsbridge, +Sept. 19, 1793. + + +CASE XXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. + +I was a considerable time much afflicted with a nervous fever and +depression of spirits, till hearing of the efficacy of your Sanative +Tea, in similar complaints, induced me to make trial of it--by which, +in a few weeks, I was restored to perfect health. I am, SIR, your +humble servant, + +R. JONES. +Aldersgate-street, +Nov. 27, 1793. + + +CASE XXIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +MY mother having been afflicted, for some time past, with a nervous +complaint and a bad head-ache, she took several medicines without +effect; till a lady of her acquaintance, recommended to her your +Sanative Tea, and advised her to drink it, instead of green or bohea +tea; which advice she followed; and as it relieved her of those +complaints, I send you this, in order that the good qualities of this +Tea may be known to those afflicted with similar complaints. I am, +SIR, + +Your obedient servant, + +GEORGE QUIN, +Hydrometer-maker. +No. 12, London-road, +Sept. 19, 1793. + + +CASE XXIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +SOME time ago being recommended to drink your Sanative Tea for a +troublesome head-ache, and a nervous disorder in my stomach, I am so +pleased with its good qualities, and efficacy, in removing those +complaints, that I am induced to recommend it as a restorative in such +cases. + +I am, &c. + +WM. FILBY. +No. 3, Pilgrim-street, Ludgate-hill, +Oct. 1, 1793. + + +CASE XXV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +MY business obliging me for many years to be concerned in spirituous +liquors, and under the unavoidable necessity of drinking too much, I +have suffered greatly from the ill effects of the same; till +recommended to drink your Sanative Tea, which after a little time did +me so much good, that I am induced to wish that every Person would +drink the Tea who have suffered the same infirmities from the too +frequent use of spirituous liquors. I therefore send you this, in hopes +others may be benefited as I have been. I am, SIR, &c. + +JOSEPH WELLS. +Guy Earl of Warwick, Upper Ground, Blackfriars-road, +Oct. 7, 1793. + + +CASE XXVI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +ABOUT six weeks ago, I was attacked with a violent sore throat, and +fever, being attended by my apothecary, and taking a number of +medicines which he sent me, a physician was advised to be called in, +but nothing they prescribed did me any good, and the doctor gave me up +as entirely lost. I was then pressed by a relation to drink a quantity +of the Sanative Tea, which I immediately did, and continued thro' the +night; I found, after a long sleep, that I was much better: I therefore +continued it for a day or two afterwards, and I was still better and +better; and in the space of three weeks, I found myself restored to +perfect health. I therefore recommend it strongly to all who may be +attacked in the same manner, and am most assuredly convinced that the +Sanative Tea contains many efficacious and excellent properties, from +the great benefit I have so astonishingly experienced by it. I am, +SIR, &c. + +SAMUEL ROBINSON. +No. 15, Clifford's-Inn, +Oct. 8, 1793. + + +CASE XXVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. + +YOUR Sanative Tea being recommended to me for a nervous disorder and a +consumptive habit of body, with which I was afflicted a considerable +time, I accordingly gave it a trial, and found myself in a short time +so much better, that I continued to drink it regularly, and am now in +exceeding good health. In gratitude to so excellent a remedy, I send +you this acknowledgement, and am, SIR, your humble servant, + +JOHN LAMB. +Clifford's-Inn, +Oct. 12, 1793. + + +CASE XXVIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. + +FOR some years past, I have been afflicted with a nervous disorder, +attended with a bad head-ache, and violent spasms in the stomach. I was +for a long time attended by an apothecary, and took much medicine, till +taking to drink the Sanative Tea, which I had heard was sold in +Cornhill, it did me much good, and so pleased me in taste, that I +continued the use of it, and am now quite well. You may as you think +fit, make use of this my poor praise. + +I am, SIR, your humble servant, + +JOHN WANNOCK. +No. 2, Fountain-court, Cateaton-street, +Oct. 14, 1793. + + +CASE XXIX. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English_ TEA. + +I was suddenly seized with a violent fever, and attended by a +physician; but grew worse. My friends, on enquiry the next day, found +me very bad; and so I remained the whole of that night; in the morning +a neighboring gentlewoman stepped in, made me some of your Sanative +Tea; which as she afterwards informed me, I drank greedily, and asked +for more, which was given me. I then fell into a pleasing sleep, and on +waking found myself so refreshed and well, that I am determined to +drink it constantly. In gratitude for the benefit I have experienced +from your Tea, you may depend upon my recommendation and custom. + +I am, SIR, your most humble servant, + +GEORGE BROWN. +White Lion-street, Pentonville, Islington, +Oct. 16, 1793. + + +CASE XXX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +BEING afflicted with a violent head-ache, a considerable time, till +hearing of the Sanative Tea having cured many persons of that +complaint, I was induced to make trial of it, and accordingly sent for +some, which I liked so well, that I continued to drink it every morning +for breakfast; and I declare, since drinking that Tea and leaving off +green tea, I have been entirely freed from my former complaint--If +therefore this my acknowledgement of its efficacy should induce any of +my sex, who are so liable to that, so general a disorder, I don't doubt +of its doing them as much service as I have experienced. + +I am, SIR, your humble servant, + +E. MACKRILL. +No. 1, Basing-lane, +Nov. 21, 1793. + + +CASE XXXI. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea._ + +IT is with the utmost pleasure I inform you, that my sister who has +lingered these eight months under a decline of the most alarming kind, +is now perfectly restored to health by drinking frequently and +regularly your Sanative English Tea. + +I am, SIR, your respectful servant, + +T. I. UPTON, +Watch-maker. +No. 8, Bell-yard, Temple-bar. +Dec. 15, 1793. + + +CASE XXXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea._ + +IT is the duty of every individual member of society, whose health may +be renovated by the use of any medicine, freely to communicate its +efficacy for the public good, in order that it may be better-known and +disseminated amongst his fellow-creatures.--Being from the nature of my +profession (my inclination perhaps also conducing that way) necessarily +accustomed to a sedentary life, I became the unhappy victim of all +those horrible maladies incident to a debility of the nervous system, +augmented by inattention to myself, accompanied with a depression of +spirits, verging to an almost absolute despondency. A gentleman, whose +goodness and philanthropy eminently characterise him, recommended to me +Dr. Solander's Tea, and happily by the use of it I have experienced the +most unspeakable relief, and my health is completely re-established, my +nerves have assumed their natural tone, and my animal spirits that +hilarity they formerly possessed. With all the fervor of gratitude for +the salutary effects of this incomparable Tea, I sincerely recommend +its use to those who may be afflicted in the same way. I am, SIR, &c. + +BUTLER FITZGERALD. +Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery. +Dec. 27, 1793. + + +CASE XXXIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative_ TEA. + +I was for some time supposed to be in a decline, and medicine had no +effect, till seeing an advertisement of a cure, performed by your +Sanative Tea, in a case similar to my own, I made trial of it, and +received so much benefit from its use, that I take this opportunity to +acknowledge its merit in having restored me to perfect health. + +I am, SIR, your humble servant, + +BENJAMIN BAKER. +Clifford's Inn Coffee-house, +Jan. 3, 1794. + + +CASE XXXIV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea._ + +TWO of my children being very ill, I was recommended to try Dr. +Solander's Tea, which in a short time did them so much good, that I am +induced to send you this, believing it to be a most excellent remedy +for many disorders. I am, SIR, your most obedient servant, + +E. ALLEN. +No. 13, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, +Feb. 2, 1794. + + +CASE XXXV. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English Tea._ + +HAVING been for a long time troubled with a bad cough, violent cold, a +poor appetite, and in a very low nervous way; I took much physic, but +found no relief; till several of my acquaintance speaking greatly in +praise of the Sanative Tea, and recommending it particularly, I drank +it for some time, and finding it do me so much good, I continued the +use of it, and am now perfectly restored to health. I therefore send +you this acknowledgment of its efficacy. + +I am, SIR, your most obedient servant, + +JOHN WHEELER. +No. 7, Lamb's Conduit-passage, Red Lion-square, +Feb. 18, 1794. + + +CASE XXXVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +ONE of my daughters being lately very ill with an intermitting +head-ache, a nervous fever, and seemingly in a decline, at the +particular desire of a friend, I was induced to buy some of the +Sanative Tea, which she continued to drink for some time, and I am +happy in this opportunity to acknowledge that it has perfectly +recovered her. + +I am, SIR, your obliged humble servant, + +JAMES GENT. +No. 14, Watling-street, +May 2, 1794. + + +CASE XXXVII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English_ TEA. + +BEING much afflicted with violent pains in my stomach and bowels, +attended with a loss of appetite, I was recommended to try your English +Tea, which, by the time I had taken three packets, restored me to +perfect health. I therefore send you this as a testimony of its +virtues. + +And am, Sir, your humble servant, + +W. JORDAN. +The Corner of Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, +May 8, 1794. + + +CASE XXXVIII. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea._ + +I was a long time afflicted with a nervous disorder, attended with such +lowness of spirits, that at times rendered me incapable of business--By +the advice of a friend I made trial of your Tea, which entirely removed +my complaint, and I now enjoy a good state of health. + +I remain, SIR, your humble servant, + +WM. FAIRCLOTH. +No. 50, Little Russell-street, near Duke-street, Bloomsbury, +May 12, 1794. + + +CASE XXXIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +HAVING been a considerable time afflicted with a nervous head-ache, +attended with violent pains in my stomach, for which I took several +medicines without experiencing any beneficial effect; being tired of +such, I bought some of your Sanative Tea, which by using a short time, +I experienced such a material change in my complaint, as induced me to +continue it, and am now free from my former pains and nervous +affections. + +I remain Sir, your obedient servant, + +RICHARD LOVEDAY. +No. 105, Bermondsey-street, +May 20, 1794. + + +CASE XL. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative_ TEA. + +MY wife being much afflicted with a nervous complaint, a bad appetite, +and depression of spirits, she was recommended to drink the English +Tea, which in a short time restored her to health--I therefore send you +this acknowledgment of its merit. + +I am, Sir, your obedient servant, + +R. CLARKE. +No. 9, Ward's Place, Islington, +June 18, 1974. + + +CASE XLI. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +HAVING heard your Sanative Tea spoke of with much praise, and it being +recommended to me by a friend who had experienced its efficacy in +eruptions of the skin--I was induced to make trial of it to my daughter +who had frequently been troubled with a similar complaint, and am happy +to inform you, that she has received much benefit from its use, and +make no doubt that in a short time it will have the desired effect so +long wished for. + +And am, Sir, your humble servant, + +JOHN ROBERTS. +Prospect-Place, Newington, Surry, +June 30, 1794. + + +CASE XLII. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea._ + +BEING in the Liquor Trade and liable to live irregular, I contracted a +violent pain and trembling of my limbs, which often rendered me +incapable of attending to business. By taking your Tea at night and for +breakfast, it has entirely removed my complaint. I therefore send you +this as a testimony of its good qualities. I remain, SIR, &c. + +JAMES RAVERTY. +No. 12, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden, +July 28, 1794. + + +CASE XLIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea._ + +I was a considerable time afflicted with a consumptive cough and inward +wasting which induced me to have recourse to many gentlemen of the +faculty, without receiving any benefit from their advice or medicine. +At last I was recommended to try your Sanative Tea, and am happy to +inform you, that a few packets of it entirely removed my cough, and at +present find myself in as good a state of health as ever I enjoyed. + +I am, SIR, &c. + +THOMAS GALLANT. +No. 10, Peter-lane, West Smithfield, +Aug. 4, 1794. + + +CASE XLIV. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +I have been for ten years very much afflicted with a rheumatic gout for +which I have taken much medicine without being relieved; fortunately, I +was advised last March to try Dr. Solander's Tea; the first two packets +I took, greatly eased my pains; and the three next parcels cured me. +Since the pains not returning, you have my authority to make this +public for the good of society. I remain, SIR, &c. + +JAMES JOHNSTON. +Lambeth-Butts, +12th August, 1794. + + +CASE XLV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. + +HAVING for a long time suffered greatly with a severe bilious +complaint, I was persuaded to make trial of your Sanative Tea, from +which I have experienced such good effects as induces me to recommend +it to such who are afflicted with a similar disorder. + +I am, &c. + +RACHAEL JAMES. +Aug. 12, No. 2, Cloysters, near Smithfield. + + +CASE XLVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +I should not think I discharged my duty to the public, were I to +conceal for a moment the great benefit I have received from Solander's +Tea, as well as two of my children, who were weakly for some months, +after the measles. My own case was violent trembling of my hands, +attended with lowness of spirits, for which I took various +prescriptions from many eminent of the faculty, without any visible +benefit, till by the advice of one of them, I took to drink your Tea, +which in a few weeks entirely cured me. Finding it so efficacious, and +withal so pleasant to the taste, I gave it to my children to drink, who +I am happy to say are perfectly recovered. + +I remain, SIR, &c. + +WM. HOSKINS +Croydon, +Aug. 13, 1794. + + +CASE XLVII. _To the Proprietor of the English Sanative Tea._ + +BEING long afflicted with a nervous complaint, and great depression of +spirits, I was advised to try the Sanative Tea, from which I received +so much benefit, as induces my recommending it as a pleasant and +comfortable remedy. + +I am, SIR, &c. + +ARABELLA DEVROAX. +No. 49, Gloucester-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, +Aug. 13, 1794. + + +CASE XLVIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea._ + +IN justice to your Sanative Tea, I approve of its utility in nervous +hysterical disorders and lowness of spirits, having seen its good +effect in cases under my own inspection. I also approve of it for +children in the measles. + +I am, SIR, your humble servant, &c. + +JAMES FELL, +Surgeon and Apothecary. +No. 36, Pratt's place, Camden Town, St. Pancras, +Aug. 14, 1794. + + +CASE XLIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +HAVING been for several years troubled with violent nervous head-aches, +I had recourse to many remedies without effect, till I tried the +Sanative Tea, a few packets of which effectually cured me. + +I remain, SIR, &c. + +M. LAWSON. +No. 7, New Compton-street, +Aug. 16, 1794. + + +CASE L. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea._ + +IN gratitude for the benefit I have received from your Tea, I +acknowledge its having recovered me from a bilious and nervous disorder +with which I was afflicted. + +I am, SIR, &c. + +ANN MARTIN. +Pitt-street, Blackfriars, +Aug. 18, 1794. + + +CASE LI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. + +I was for some years attacked with a violent cough, which threatened a +consumption, for which I tried several medicines in vain, till I used +your Sanative Tea, which has effectually cured me. + +I am, SIR, &c. + +CATHARINE BROWNE. +Blewit's-buildings, Fetter-lane, +Aug. 25, 1794. + + +CASE LII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative English +Tea._ + +HAVING been much troubled with a nervous disorder, attended with a sick +head-ache, particularly after breakfast and tea: I was strongly advised +to try your English Tea, which by persevering in its use, has recovered +me from my complaints. I remain, SIR, your's, &c. + +F. MARSHALL. +Duke's-row, Somers Town, +Sept. 27, 1794. + + +CASE LIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ ENGLISH TEA. + +BEING long afflicted with a slow nervous complaint, that brought on +such a debility of my frame as rendered me incapable of my business; I +was persuaded by a friend to the use of the Sanative Tea, and purchased +two packets, from which I found great relief, and by continuing its +use, am perfectly restored to health and strength. I am, SIR, &c. + +H. I. DOBSON. +No. 62, Kingsland-road, +Oct. 16, 1794. + + +CASE LIV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea._ + +YOUR Sanative Tea having cured me of a violent bilious complaint with +which I had been afflicted above six months, induces me to send you +this acknowledgement of its efficacy. + +I am, Sir, &c. + +WM. LANE. +Hackney Terrace, Oct. 27, 1794. + + +CASE LV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea._ + +BEING for some time past afflicted with a weakness at my stomach, +attended with a violent pain in my head, I was recommended to make +trial of your Sanative Tea, which has removed my complaints, and I +would wish to recommend it to others for the same disorder. + +I remain, Sir, your humble servant, + +H. MEIRICK. +Shore-place, Hackney, +Dec. 3, 1794. + + +CASE LVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative_ ENGLISH TEA. + +MY daughter being afflicted with violent pains in her head and stomach, +I purchased some of your Tea, which has entirely relieved her from her +complaints. I am, Sir, &c. + +JAMES BENNETT. +Bagnigge Marsh, opposite the Bull, +Dec. 10, 1794. + + +CASE LVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. + +BEING greatly troubled with a weakness of stomach, indigestion and loss +of appetite, I was strongly recommended to try the Sanative Tea, which +has had so good an effect in restoring me to health, that I wish to be +the means of promoting the more general use of it in all complaints of +that nature. + +I am, Sir, &c. + +L. FEGAN. +No. 2, Union-row, London Road, +St. George's Fields, +Dec. 30, 1794. + + +CASE LVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. + +SIR, + +MY daughter being in a poor state of health, in consequence of a weak +and bilious Stomach, I was advised to try your Sanative Tea, which +produced so good an effect, that I take this opportunity of +acknowledging it, and am, SIR, + +Your humble Servant, + +JAMES JARVIS. +No. 21, Chapman-street, New Road, +St. George's in the East, +Feb. 18, 1795. + + +CASE LIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S SANATIVE TEA. + +SIR, + +BEING greatly afflicted with a violent head ach and lowness of spirits, +I was recommended to the use of Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, which effectually +cured me, I am, SIR, + +Your obedient servant, + +EVAN EVANS. +No. 7, Winsay-row, St. George's-Fields, +March 29, 1795. + + +CASE LX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +SIR, + +THE considerable benefit I have received from your Sanative Tea in a +nervous disorder, with which I was afflicted, induces me to send you +this acknowledgement of it's merit, and am SIR, + +Your very humble servant, + +JOHN RICHARDSON. +Church-street, Mile End, +April 3, 1795. + + +CASE LXI. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S ENGLISH TEA. + +SIR, + +YOUR Sanative English Tea, as a corrector of a weak and bilious +stomach, attended with loss of appetite, with which I was long +afflicted, has proved so peculiarly efficacious, that I wish it was +more generally known by such as are troubled with that too common and +cruel complaint, I am, SIR, + +Your most humble servant, + +RICHARD COX. +No. 8, Paradise-street, Finsbury-square, +April 12, 1795. + + +CASE LXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +SIR, + +BEING troubled with a depression of spirits in consequence of a bilious +complaint and indigestion, in justice to the merits of your Tea in +removing the phlegm from my stomach, and enlivening my spirits, I send +you this acknowledgment of its virtues. I am, Sir, + +Your humble Servant, + +ROBERT GRIBBLE. +Portland Place, Walworth, +July 4, 1795 + + +CASE LXIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr.._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +SIR, + +AFTER a long and severe illness my brother was afflicted with a nervous +complaint, attended with lowness of spirits; being advised to drink +your celebrated Tea, he has experienced so much benefit from its use, +that it is but justice to acknowledge its efficacy. I am, Sir, + +Your most humble servant, + +JAMES GILBERT. +Charles Street, Whitechapel. + + +CASE LXIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. + +SIR, + +I was a considerable time much afflicted with a bilious complaint and +very nervous, till fortunately hearing of the many Cures performed by +your Sanative Tea, in similar complaints, induced me to make trial of +it, and to persevere in its use. I now find myself so perfectly +restored to health, that I shall embrace every opportunity to recommend +it in the circle of my acquaintance. I am, Sir, + +Your obedient servant, + +WILLIAM MARSH. +Seward Street, Old Street Road. +July 20, 1795. + + +CASE LXV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +SIR, + +I have the satisfaction to inform you, that I have just cause to +approve your Sanative Tea, from its having cured me of a severe nervous +head-ache, after the unsuccessful prescriptions of several of the +faculty. + +I am, Sir, Your most obliged servant, + +BARBARY STARR. +No. 6, Golden Lane, Barbican. +August 17, 1795. + + +CASE LXVI. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +SIR, + +A friend of mine having drank your Sanative Tea, and approved it, I was +induced to try it, and have experienced its efficacy in a bilious +complaint, I am, Sir, + +Your humble servant, + +ALLAN WILSON. +Corn Chandler, &c. Tottenham Court Road, +May 15, 1795 + + +CASE LXVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S ENGLISH TEA. + +SIR, + +IN the course of my practice I have had several opportunities to +observe the sanative efficacy of your English Tea, in nervous and +bilious cases; I also approve of its use in hysterical disorders and +lowness of spirits, and shall recommend for such. + +I am, Sir, Your humble servant, + +THOMAS LANGFORD, +Apothecary. +Strand, near Exeter Change, +October 16, 1795. + + +CASE LXVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. + +SIR, + +FROM the benefit I have experienced in drinking your Sanative Tea for a +bilious complaint, bordering on the jaundice, I send you this +acknowledgment of its merit. + +I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, + +CHARLES WARWICK. +No. 17, Baker's Buildings, Old Bethlem, +Nov. 25, 1795. + + +CASE LXIX. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. + +SIR, + +MY apothecary, Mr. Thomas Langford, of the Strand, having prescribed my +drinking Dr. Solander's Tea for a nervous fever and head-ache with +which I was afflicted, I persevered in its use some time, and am now +happily restored to health by that pleasant remedy. + +I am Sir, Your humble servant, + +C. RICHARDSON. +No. 9, Mount Row, opposite the Paragon, Deptford Road, +Nov. 14, 1795. + + +CASE LXX. _To the Proprietor of Dr._ SOLANDER'S TEA. + +SIR, + +I approve of your English Tea as a general beverage, particularly in +nervous hysterical cases, and for children in the measles and +small-pox, and shall recommend for such in the course of my practice. + +I am, Sir, Your humble servant, + +O. FAIRCLOUGH, +Surgeon, &c. +Beaumont Street, Portland Place, +Jan. 25, 1796. + + + + +T. GOLDING, Wholesale Agent to the Proprietor of this TEA, respectfully +informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general, that for +convenience of the Country, it is appointed to be sold by + +_Mr._ + +And by one principal Vender of Medicines in every other City and Town +in England, Ireland, and Scotland. + +The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose this Tea, being +gathered and dried with peculiar attention to the preserving their +Sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many +similar Preparations, which, by being reduced to Powder, must have +those qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. + + * * * * * + +_A CAUTION._ + +The high estimation in which Dr. Solander's Tea is held, by the first +circles of fashion, as a general beverage--the many cures it has +effected--and the pleasantness of its flavour having induced several +unprincipled persons to prepare and vend a base and spurious +preparation under a similar title; the Proprietor, in justice to the +known efficacy of this Tea, and to secure his property from further +depredations, has thought proper to have an engraved copper-plate +affixed to the canisters and packets of the genuine and original +preparation of Dr. Solander's Sanative English Tea. This plate being +entered at Stationer's Hall as the Act directs, August 20, 1794, will +subject such persons as imitate the same to a consequent prosecution. +The public are therefore cautioned from purchasing any article but what +is distinguished by the said plate, and to observe thereon the words +specified as above, of its being entered according to Act of +Parliament. + + + + +DIRECTIONS +FOR MAKING +DR. SOLANDER's TEA. + +TWO or three tea-spoonfuls of this Tea being put into a tea-pot, or a +covered bason, pour boiling water upon it, and let it remain a short +time in a state of infusion.--After using milk and sugar, agreeably to +the taste, drink it moderately warm. A few tea-cups full are sufficient +for breakfast, tea in the afternoon, or any other time a person may +think proper. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + +IN THE INTRODUCTION. + + 1 Health or Disease, greatly depend on the Choice of salutary or +unwholesome Tea. + + 2 Dreadful Afflictions of nervous Disorders caused by foreign Tea. + + 3 The Manner of India Tea affecting the Constitution. + + * * * * * + +IN THE ESSAY ON TEAS. + + 1 Foreign Teas frequently cause an Atrophy or Consumption. + + 2 The acrimonious Effects of foreign Teas explained. + + 3 Foreign Teas not only impoverish, but corrupt the Blood. + + 4 Palsy caused by drinking foreign Teas. + + 5 Narcotic Salts in foreign Teas, very injurious. + + 6 Foreign Teas a chief Cause of all windy Complaints. + + 7 Opinions of different celebrated authors on foreign Teas. + + * * * * * + +IN THE MANNER OF USING. + + 1 The Use of foreign Teas has entirely changed the Constitution of the +Europeans, within the last Century. + + 2 Dr. Priestley's physical Experiment on foreign Teas. + + 3 Dr. Hugh Smith's Opinion of their injurious Effects. + + 4 Tissot's Opinion of their pernicious Qualities. + + 5 Symptomatic Effects and Diseases caused by using them. + + 6 Sir Hans Sloane's British and Dr. Solander's English Tea considered. + + 7 Effects of Coffee and Chocolate. + + 8 Virtues of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea, proved by physical Analization. + + 9 Aromatic Nature of the Sanative Tea. + +10 The sanative Manner of its acting on the Constitution. + +11 Dr. Solander's Tea superior to Chalybrates, in all nervous +Complaints. + + * * * * * + +IN THE PREPARATION OF THE SANATIVE TEA. + + 1 How the natural and nutritious Qualities of the respective Plants +are preserved, &c. &c. + + * * * * * + +MANNER OF USING THE SANATIVE TEA. + + 1 The Qualities of the Plants peculiarly adapted to the Time of using +them, so as to prove the most salutary of any Morning or Evening +Beverage whatever. + +The Whole concludes with a brief physical Demonstration of their +beneficial and restorative Effects on the Constitutions of all Ages who +use them instead of foreign Teas. + + * * * * * + +The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, +being gathered and dried with peculiar Attention, to the preserving of +their sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many +similar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have those +Qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. + +A Packet of Dr. Solander's Tea at 2s. 9d. is sufficient to breakfast +one Person a Month. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Treatise on Foreign Teas, by Hugh Smith + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREATISE ON FOREIGN TEAS *** + +***** This file should be named 28549.txt or 28549.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/5/4/28549/ + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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