The natural history of the tea-tree, with observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking / By John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The natural history of the tea-tree, with observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ <4 ] that of the neceflary article of bread, fufficient for a family of five per foils. SECT. XX. It appears alfo from a moderate calculation, that three mil¬ lion pounds of Tea are annually, confumed in England ; and domeftic experience teaches us, that with each pound of Tea, ten pounds of butter at lead: are confumed. Hence the con- fumption of butter with this injurious aliment, if aliment it may be called, amounts annually to the amazing quantity of thirty millions of pounds. It is likewife to be premifed, that at leaf!: five gallons of milk, are neceflary to procure one pound of butter (q). This being granted, we may conclude farther: Suppofe one gallon of milk with bread, would fuffice three laboring people for breakfaft and fupper, and that thefe meals conftitute half of their food, it follows, that from this fafhion- able cuflom of Tea drinking, this kingdom cannot fupply food for fo many people as it otherwife could, were the inhabitants to live in a more fimple manner, by at leaft one million. But fuppofing we allow half a million for the bread eaten with the milk, and for the ufes of the milk after the butter has been taken from it, the deficiency ftill amounts to the amazing number of half a million of people ! (q) Compare Halleri Elem. Phyf. T. 7. P. n. p. 33, 34. FINIS.. 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3041104x_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
