A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves

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Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste of the body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry is important, whether India Tea, which the Faculty unanimously concur in pronouncing a Species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears the substance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose—If it be not—the inquiry is further necessary to find out a proper substitute. If an Apozem professionally approved and recommended for its nutritive qualities, as a general aliment, has claim to public attention, certainly Dr. Solander's Tea, so sanctioned, is the most proper morning and afternoon's beverage.