A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry.

  • James Henry
Date:
1830
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Credit: A letter to the members of the Temperance Society showing that the use of tea and coffee cannot be safely substituted for that of spirituous liquors : and proposing for their adoption a rule of diet from which those substances are excluded / by James Henry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “ unaccustomed. Having walked twelve iC miles he refreshed himself with a repetition “ of the same meal. Resuming his journey “ he walked nine miles further without “ hurry or fatigue. The heat of the day “ indisposed him to dine, as usual, on ani- “ mal food ; and he therefore called a third “ time for green tea, and drank copiously of “ a strong infusion, eating at the same time “ only bread or biscuit. He retired early “ to bed, resolving to use a similar diet on the “ following day. “ Soon after he lay down, he began to “ feel some unusual and distressing sensa- “ tions about the prsecordia as if he were “ continually on the verge of fainting. But “ being much disposed to sleep, these sen- “ sations were for a while disregarded, and “ he passed two hours in a kind of troubled “ slumber, waking at short intervals. His “ respiration became irregular and op- “ pressed; and his heart sometimes palpi- <£ tated, and at other times seemed motion- “ less. At length he awoke suddenly and “ entirely, as from a struggle of incubus. “ He now experienced acute pain, as from “ spasm in the region of his heart; and in “ spite of all his elforts he felt as if he were “ continually falling into deliquium. His
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