An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne.

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1725
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    112/302 (page 62)
    three Times every Day, as it would be for fuch to drink nothing but fcalding Lime-Water. There are two Kinds of Tea in Ufc, Green and Bohea. Mr. Cunningham, who liv'd feveral Years in China, a very learned and accurate Per- fon * informs us, that they are both ga- ! thered from the fame Shrub, but at dif- ! ferent Seafons of the Year, and that the Bohea is gather’d in the Spring, and is dried in the Sun> the Green at the Fire. But I fufpeft, and not without Autho¬ rity, that, befides thefe Differences in drying, fonie Infujton of another Plant or Earth (perhaps fuch a one as that of Japan Earth, ox: Catechu) muft be pour¬ ed on fome forts of Bohea Tea, to give it the Softnefs, Flavour, and Heavinefs on the Stomach it has, whereby it be¬ comes a meer Drug, and wants the na¬ tural Simplicity of Green Tea, which when light, and drank neither too Strong nor too Hot, I take to be a very pro¬ per Diluent, when foften’d with a lit¬ tle Milk, to cleanfe the alimentary PafTages, and wafli off the Scorbutick and Urinous Salts, for a Breakfaft, to thofe who live full and free; as alfo it, ox Tea made of a dic'd Orange or Lemony is one of the bed promoters of Digefiion after Vide Phil. Culled.