A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate

In order to determine that dubious and perplexing Question, Whether the _Tea_ of the _Chinese_ is an Herb, or a small Shrub? It is necessary I should previously enquire, whether...

These, and other similar Examples, might perhaps have a lucky Influence on some _Europeans_, unless the Custom of using _Tobacco_ had become so prevalent and universal, that _Ja...

It is not, therefore, the native Heat, but that fatal Dryness which renders the Members cold, and the Skin corrugated, which renders old Persons fond of drinking; and for this R...

As _Nicolaus Monardus_, in _Simpl. Med. Histor._ has given so full and accurate an History and Description of _Tobacco_, that others have only borrowed their Accounts of it from...

I could heartily wish, that all the practical Physicians in _Europe_ would concur to giving a Sanction to this Doctrine by their Practice; for, besides the Testimonies of _Triga...

But Physicians may object, that I am still bewildered, and at a Loss; since the _Chinese Tea_, and our _Chamelæagnus_, produce different Effects: For, as all the Effects which t...

It is to be observed, that these Vessels are of a grateful fragrant Smell, resembling those of the _Juniper_, _Cypress_, or _Aloes Tree_, which is certainly owing to the bitumin...

I Have hitherto strenuously endeavoured to preserve the Health of the _Europeans_, by discarding and exploding the Abuse of _Tobacco_: But if any one should ask my Sentiments of...

If it should be said, that _Tulpius_ informs us, that the _Chinese_ dissolve a few Grains of Salt, or Sugar, in their Infusions of _Tea_, I answer, we here enquire not what is d...