A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties ... and ... the various effects its has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea ... Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water / [Thomas Short].
- Thomas Short
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties ... and ... the various effects its has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea ... Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water / [Thomas Short]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![. > INTRODUCTORY. PRE FAGE. » The fore-cited Author” having. givenusthebeftand fulleft. Account ofthe Culture, Growth, Preparation and Differences of Tea, I thall here acknow- _ ledge my Obligation to him for feveral ‘Things in. the following Difcourfe. The Tee-tree'is a Shrub that..grows, but flowly.,. it,rifes to a Eathom high, and higher, and: has. -black woody. irregular branched. Root: Its Bark is dry, thin, weak, Chefnut colour’d, greyifh on, the Stem, and fomewhat inclined’ to’ Green on) the Extremities of the Twigs; ’tis firm, and adheres clofely to the Wood, and is. covered with a very thin Skin, which fometimes loofens ‘of. itfelf asthe Bark grows dry ;. this, being re- moyed, the Bark appears of a greenifh, Colour, and fmells. fomewhat like the Hazle-tree Leaves, but more difagrecable and offenfive, and of a bit- ter, naufeous and aftringent Tafte. ; | The Wood is hard and fibrous, of a greenifh Colour inclining to white, of a very offenfive Smell when green, the Pith, which is very {mall, fticks clofe to the Wood. |... |. & | The Branches and'T wigs are many. in. Number, growing without any Order, flender, of different’ Sizes, though fhort in the main, wanting. thofe Rings which in. Trees and Shrubs. are the Mark. of their annual Increafe ; very thick | befec. with | Leaves, without any Order, on fhort,, far, green Foot-Stalks, roundifh,and {moot on the Back, but hollow, and. fome- what comprefs’d. On the. oppofite Side ftand the ILeaves : Thefe. are of a middle !Subftanice, between, tiembranaceous.and_flefhy;, in Subftance, Shape, Colour ,:!and;,Size when. full grown; like thofe of the Morella } esr som elsdr ates hdt sip] ovo ino Gherey-tnee, beautiful Tze Shrubs. Darma eating fome Chrift; He was the third Son of Kafinwo,- of the Leaves, was prefently fll’d with .an Indiaa King, anda kind of Pope,.be-~ new Joy, arid Strength to purfue his di- ing the 28 Succeffor of: the Holy See of vine’ Meditations :» He prefently commu- Siaka} the F otinderof theitPaganifimj who! nicated to his Difciples the great Benefit was’ a Negroeibotns:j10¢3- Years -before he found from, Zea; which they publith’d Chrif... Darma was.a moft.auftere Man, to Mankind, Thus were the Virtues of who,,.from.an Aim at perfeét Holinefs,, Zea difcover?d to the World, fay the fc- refolved to deny himfelf all’Reft, Sleep,'~'pane/e.- This’ Fable might arife either an@Relaxation of his Body,» and confe+ sfrom. its Serviceablenefs in fome Difeafes crate--his Mind Day.and (Night, » with-. “of the Eyes, .or,from its, Force in. pre- out Intermiffion,, to God: ,; After he had_ venting too much Drowfinefs in fuch an watched many: Years, oné Day being “auftere Man: °° And its‘Ufe at firft (as of weary and over-fafted, he unluckily dropt all other’ Things) was’ no doubt acciden-' afleep} awakingthe next Morning, ’full of) tak yHenceait’s brought inas produc’d by Sorrow: for breaking this,folemn Vow, he «a ‘Miracle, ,;wrought above 1z00 Years vs Saint, who lived about the 519 Year of cut off both his Eye-brows,.thofe Inftru- ments of his Crime, and with Indignation threw ‘them to the Ground: Returning the next Day to the fame Place, ibehold, out of his Eye-brows were grown two ago.. However this .fufficiently fhews, that it is no new Difcovery to the Judians, Vol. of his Hift! of Fapan,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30509695_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
