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

  • George Cheyne
Date:
1724
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Credit: An essay of health and long life / By George Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    three Times every Day, as it would be for fuch to drink nothing but fcalding Lime-Water. There are two Kinds of Tea in Ufe, Green and Bohea. Mr. Cuningham, who liv'd feveral Years in China, a very learned and accurate Per- fon * informs us, that thev are both ga- thered from the fame Shrub, but at dif¬ ferent Seafons of the Year 5 and that the Bohea is Gather'd in the Spring, and is dried in the( Sun, the Green at the Fire. But I fufped, and not without Autho¬ rity, that, befides thefe Differences in drying, lome Infufion of another Plant or Earth (perhaps fuch a one as that of Japan Earth, or Catechu) mult be pou¬ red on fome forts of Bohea Tea, to give it the Softnefs, Flavour, an i Heavinefs on the Stomach it has, whereby it be¬ comes a nicer 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 Paffages, and wafh off the Scorbutick and Urinous Salts, for a Breakfaft, to thofe who live full and free; as alfo it, or Tea made of a flic'd Orange or Lemon, is one of the belt promoters of Digejlion after * Tide Phil. Colled.
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