FOOTNOTES:
[1] A journey to the Tea Countries of China, p. 281, London 1852.
[2] Ancient Accounts of India and China, by Eusebius Renaudot, London 1733.
[3] Delle cause della grandezza delle citta. Giovanni Botero Milan 1596, p. 61.
[4] Mercurius Politicus, comprising the sum of Foreign intelligence with the affairs now on foot in the three nations of England, Scotland and Ireland. For information of the people. From Thursday, September 23rd to Thursday, September 30th, 1658. Number 435.
[5] Mercurius Politicus Redivivus. A collection of most materiáll occurances and transactions in publick affaires, A.D. 1659 to 1672. Add. M.S.S. 10116, p. 14.
[6] History of England, iv. 132.
[7] Dried sage leaves were used for making infusions even up to the year 1750.
[8] See Report from Select Committee on Commercial Relations with China, 12th July, 1847, p. 501.
[9] See Article by Bannister in the Journal of the Society of Arts, October 31, 1890 p. 1030.
[10] The oil was found to contain small quantities of methyl salicylate or oil of wintergreen.
[11] Commentarius de abusu tabaci americanorum veteri et Herbae Thee Asiaticorum in Europa novo 1665.
[12] Van Swieten’s Commentaries, xvii., 450.
[13] Ibid., x., 274, 275.
[14] “An Essay on Tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation,” London 1757.
[15] The Literary Magazine, 1757, ii., 161.
[16] “A letter to the Members of the Temperance Society” James Henry, M.D., Dublin, 1830.
[17] “Medical Record,” New York, 1879, xvi., 43.
[18] “The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,” 1886, cxiv., 314.
[19] “Medical News,” 1894, lxv., 486.
[20] Archives of Surgery, 1892, iii., 366.
[21] “Medical Press and Circular,” 1894, i., 188.
[22] “British Medical Journal,” 1885, i., 270.
[23] Sanitary Record 1883, v., 199.