Dulces bibebant ex arundine succos. Lucan.
Μελι καλαμινον το λεγομενον σακχαρι. Arrian.
[86] Whytt’s Works, 4to. p. 642.
[87] From these instances of the deleterious effects of Tea, one might be led to suppose that the same unhappy consequences would frequently attend those who are employed in examining and mixing different kinds of Tea in China; but there the Teas are mixed under an open shed, through which the air has a free current, by which the odour and the dust are dissipated: but in London this business is usually done in a back room, confined on every side.
[88] Van Swieten, in his Commentaries on Boerhaave’s aphorisms, speaks of the effects of Tea and Coffee in the following manner. “Vidi plurimos, his potibus diu abusos, adeo enervatum corpus habuisse, ut vix languida membra traherent, ac plures etiam apoplexia et paralysi correptos suisse.” Tom. III. § 1060, p. 362, de paralysi.
[89] Vide Trattato di Medicina preservation: Scritto da Carlo Gianella. Veron. 1751. p. 112. Simon Pauli, who took a pleasure in opposing the use of Tea, indulges himself with the irony of the following lines:
Drinct Wiin and warff,
Drinct Beer and verdarff,
Drinct Waater and starff:
Or;