Footnotes
[ 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.
[ 2 ] Floyer, Malpighus, Epew, Harvey, Willis, Lower, Needham, Glisson, &c.
[ 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.