A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea ... Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water / By Thomas Short.

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.
Date:
1730
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Credit: A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea ... Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water / By Thomas Short. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEDICATION. the Virtues of a certain Herb ; there is no Difpute, no Controverfy, My Lord, concerning Yours. And fmdd I particularly expatiate upon them, I fmild be perfectly fecure from every Cenfure, but that of your Lordjhifs : Or if any Objection Jhould be farted, it would be only thisy Id hat ytis nee diejs to publijh thofe Praijes, in a Dedication, which are nniverjally proclaimed. And what JVonder, My Lord, if that gene¬ rous benevolent Lemper, fo conspicuous in your Lordjhip upon all Occa- fonsy (Ijould render you the Delight of every Eye, and the Darling of your Countrey ? Permit me further to obferve, that whoever has the Honour to attend your Lordjhip as a Phyfician, has this peculiar Felicity; that whatever Pain or Sicknejs may befal you, fmdd his Medicines, at any Limey prove ineffectual for your Relief] they would never fail to be Jeconded and of fed by the united Prayers ana good Wijhes of all that know You. So that I may jufly apply to your Lordjhip that beautiful Expreffon of Horace, with the Alteration of one Word> -Hominumque prodis Publica Cura. It is no eafy Matter, My Lord, to check ones thoughts, or refrain their Pen on Jo agreeable a Subject • but I am obliged rather to confder with what Patience your Lordjhip will ready than with what Pleafure I could write upon it. Let me intreat your Lordfip, not to place what I have faid intirely to the Account of' Gratitude y for though I am infinitely indebted to your Lordjhip, and gladly take this firfi Opportunity to acknowledge it in Publick, yet my Obligations have been Jo far from making me Jay morey that they have guarded me from J'aying fo much as I Jhould otherwise' have done, to avoid the Suspicion of the faff ion able Flattery, fo difi pleafing to your Lordjhip1 s Ear, which had I not been very tender of inflcad of a Jhort Dedication, you had been difurbed with a long Pa- negyrick from> My Lord, Your Lordfliips Mod obliged, and obedient Servant, * • ■' ;' l\ * , r v jlC * ‘J - * ^_• f \. Thomas Short.