A

TREATISE

ON

FOREIGN TEAS, _ABSTRACTED_

FROM

An ingenious WORK, lately published, ENTITLED

_AN ESSAY ON THE NERVES_;

ILLUSTRATING

Their efficient, formal, material, and final Causes; with the Manner ofthe Liquids being corrupted by corrosive Acids, and stagnated by obtuseAlkalies:

IN WHICH ARE

OBSERVATIONS ON MINERAL WATERS, COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, _&c. _

AND

An Investigation of the Nature and Preparation of Foreign Teas, withtheir pernicious Effects in debilitating the Nervous System:

INTERSPERSED WITH

THE AUTHOR'S REMARKS, Arising from an Analysis of such Preparations as may be mostbeneficially substituted for INDIA TEA. 

THIS SELECTION, containing the Sentiments of the many eminent PhysicalProfessors who have written on Foreign Teas, is designed to shew, bythe most forcible Arguments and distinguished Authorities, the extremeDanger to which the Public are exposed from the continual Use of anArticle so pernicious and destructive to the Constitution. 

[Price Six-pence. ]

Dr. SOLANDER'sSANATIVE ENGLISHTEA. 

UNIVERSALLY APPROVED and RECOMMENDED

BY THE MOST

EMINENT PHYSICIANS, IN PREFERENCE TO FOREIGN TEA, As the most Pleasing and POWERFUL RESTORATIVE, IN ALLNERVOUS DISORDERS, HITHERTO DISCOVERED. 

Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste ofthe body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry isimportant, whether INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur inpronouncing a Species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears thesubstance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose--If it benot--the inquiry is further necessary to find out a proper substitute. If an Apozem PROFESSIONALLY approved and recommended for its nutritivequalities, as a general aliment, has claim to public attention, certainly Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, so sanctioned, is the most proper morningand afternoon's beverage. 

Prepared for the Proprietor by an eminent Botanist. 

Sold Wholesale and Retail by the Proprietor's Agent, Mr. T. GOLDING, at his Warehouse for Patent Medicines, No. 42, Cornhill, London; andRetail by Mr. F. NEWBERY, No. 45, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Messrs. BAILEY'S, Cockspur-street; Mr. W. BACON, No. 150, Oxford-street; Mr. OVERTON, No. 47, New Bond-street; and by Mr. J. FULLER, South Side ofCovent Garden. Also by the Venders of Patent Medicines in most Citiesand Towns, in England, Ireland, and Scotland. 

Sold in Packets at 2s. 9d. And in Canisters at 10s. 6d. Each, Dutyincluded. 

Liberal Allowance for Exportation, to Country Venders, and to Schools. 

The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, being gathered and dried with peculiar attention, to the preserving oftheir sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than manysimilar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have thoseQualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. 

A Packet of this Tea at 2s. 9d. Is sufficient to breakfast one Person aMonth. 

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOREIGN TEAS. 

Having, in the preceding enquiry, traced, from the system of thenerves, that on their state the health of the constitution chieflydepends, our immediate concern is next to ascertain what kind of foodwe either adopt from choice, custom, or necessity, is the most likelyto destroy the economy of the nerves. And as Foreign Teas have longbeen censured as being the cause of many disorders which arise from thenerves being disarranged or debilitated, an impartial enquiry is heremade into the nature, preparation, and effects, of these Teas. By thisinvestigation it will appear, that Teas imported from China and Indiaare the most injurious of any beverage that can possibly be taken as ageneral and constant aliment. But, not prematurely to anticipate anypart of the following subject, the Reader is most respectfully referredto the following pages for further evidence. 

INTRODUCTION. 

As two of the four meals that form our daily subsistence are chieflycomposed of tea, an enquiry into what kind is the most salutary must beas necessary as it may prove interesting and beneficial; for, on thechoice of proper or improper tea must greatly depend the health ordisease of the public in general. To this may be attributed theconstitution being either preserved from that innumerable train ofafflictions, which arise from too great a relaxation of the nervoussystem by acute distempers, misfortunes, &c. Or being so debilitated byexcessive drinking of India Tea, as to render it alone the prey ofmelancholy, palsies, epilepsies, night-mares, swoonings, flatulencies, low spirits, hysteric and hypochondriacal affections. For tea that ispernicious is not only poison to those who, from any cause of corporaldebility or mental affliction, are liable to the above diseases;--butit is also too frequently found to render the most healthy victims ofthese alarming complaints. And as nervous disorders are the mostcomplicated in their distressing circumstances, the greater care shouldbe taken to avoid such aliments as produce them, as well as to choosethose which are the most proper for their relief and prevention. Thosewho are now suffering from the inconsiderate use of improper tea, whatpitiable objects of distress and disease do they not represent for thecaution of those who may timely preserve themselves? Nervous disordersare the most formidable, by being the most numerous in their attacksupon the human frame. Every moment, comparatively speaking, producessome new distress of mind or body. The imagination cannot avoid thehorrors of its own creation, while the memory is harrassed with theshadows of departed pleasures, which serve but to encrease the pain ofexisting torments. All the endearments of life are vanished to the poorwretch who sees himself surrounded by the spectres of dismay, terror, despondency, and melancholy. And such is but the thousandth part of theafflictions that are to be avoided or produced by the choice of theprevailing beverage of tea. Not only the innumerable train of nervousafflictions, but all those disorders that arise from an impropertemperature of the fluids, may be produced from the action, corrosion, and stimulation of pernicious teas. In proportion to the state of thefluids, in particular constitutions, they may either prove too relaxingor astringent, too condensing or attenuating, and too acrid or viscid;for India teas, that to some constitutions are very diluting, mayproduce in others contrary effects: therefore such should be chosen aspossess a combination of quality that may render them, as nearly aspossible, to a general specific. But this cannot be well expected whereone single ingredient is used, and that is distinguished for itsparticular qualities, which, if wholesome, can only be such to thosewhose fluids are so, by nature or circumstances, as to require such aparticular assistant; for to every other state of the fluids they mustbe pernicious. It is consequently evident, that if teas imported fromIndia have any virtues, they cannot be such as to render them worthy ofbeing universally adopted as a general aliment. If wholesome to a few, they must be pernicious to the rest of mankind, with whoseconstitutions they have no congeniality, medicinal or alimentaryvirtue. Supposing they may possess some physical properties, like allother medicines, they can only benefit such disorders as natureparticularly formed them to relieve. Those who have been advocates fortheir positive virtues have, in this instance, but more confirmed theimpropriety of adopting them as a general morning and evening beverage. This only explains more evidently the cause of so many being injured, where one is benefited, by drinking constantly India tea. There cannotpossibly be stated a more self-evident proposition than where anysimple or combined matter is adopted for a particular purpose, it must, in every opposite instance, prove injurious. In proportion, therefore, to such particular qualities, they are the more improper to begenerally and indiscriminately adopted. This observation, although itmay be applied to every art or science, is still more applicable tophysic. Thus is it found that no medicine can be safely taken as aconstant and general aliment. Even those who, at first, might find itbeneficial in their respective complaints, have too frequently foundthe constant use of it afterwards hurtful to the constitution it hadbefore relieved. It may be deduced, from the above considerations, thatIndia teas, however physically beneficial, to allow them all their bestof praise, must be as an aliment generally injurious. Instead ofpreserving health, they sow innumerable disorders, which can only becured by substituting a beverage from such salutary native or exoticherbs as are formed for the particular afflictions the former have sopitiably brought upon the too greater part of mankind. 

As almost every disorder to which the human frame is liable may beretarded in its cure, if not confirmed in the constitution, by thepower of secretion being weakened, India teas are the most dangerousthat can be possibly used as a general beverage. By too much dilatingthe canals, the concussive force of the sides is increased, whichdestroys the oscillatory motion, and thus are the secretions alteredand disturbed; and as the action of medicines consists in removingimpediments to the equal motion of the fluids, the greater care shouldbe taken to abstain from all food or drink that may increase thoseimpediments. That India teas not only increase but occasion such evilsis evident, from their having been experienced to relax the tone andreduce the consistence of the solids. As the powers of secretion dependupon the just equilibrium of force between the solids and the liquids, the latter must, in the above instance, make a greater _impetus_ uponone part than another, from which proceeds that morbid state so justlyand emphatically termed Disease. Thus, according to the learnedBoerhaave, to heal is to take away the disease from the body; that is, to remove and expel the causes which hinder the equal motion ortransflux. Medicines, he says, are those mechanical instruments bywhich an artist may remove the causes of the balance being destroyed, and thus re-instate the lost equilibrium of solids and liquids. Hetherefore concludes, that a medicine supposes a flowing of the humoursor liquids; that it operates mechanically; that it acts only mediately;that its good or bad effects depend entirely on the bulk, motion, andfigure of the acting particles, and that the destruction of the balancemust be deduced from the solids. So that, as it has been found that thesolids are wasted and impaired by the constant use of India tea, thechief cause of disease, in general, may be attributed to such apernicious custom; even the properties which he ascribes to medicinesare in direct opposition to what have been found to be the prevailingeffects of teas imported into Europe. It is consequently evident, thatthe drinking of this injurious tea being not only, in its operation, productive of disease in its general sense, but also repugnant to thesalutary operation of medicine, it is the most dangerous beverage thatcan be generally taken; for it appears, from the above consideration, that its pernicious effects are not confined to any system ofdisorders; it is found inimical to the first principles of health, andtherefore may be justly dreaded as capable of being the source ofdisease indefinitely understood. 

Having thus stated, as an Introduction to this Essay on Teas, thegeneral tendency of those imported from India, under the titles ofGreen, Souchong, and Bohea, to injure the constitution, the followingpages will be particularly devoted to the consideration of the nature, preparation, and manner of using, and the effects of such foreign teas. 

ESSAY ON TEAS. 

There is, perhaps, no subject on which there has been more declamation, for and against its properties and effects, than those of teas importedinto this country by the companies trading from the different maritimenations of Europe to China and India. Nor has there been a controversyin which the health of the community has been so materially concerned, that has afforded so little direction of moment to those who would wishto ascertain the truth of such teas being either beneficial, injurious, or innocent in their effects. Amidst a mass of declamatory assertion solittle intelligence is to be gained, that those who have had thegreatest interest in being informed of the real qualities of teas, havemost abandoned the enquiry before they obtained the least knowledge ofwhat they sought. Either perplexed with abstruse science, ordissatisfied with assertion equally unfounded and unsupported, thousands have discontinued the research, and committed themselves tofatal experience. Thus have too many acquired a knowledge of thedetrimental qualities of teas, by the ruin of their constitution. Toavoid therefore such an inconvenience, the greatest care will be takento prevent an indiscriminate reference to authors, whose sentiments canneither sanction adduced arguments or illustrate technical allusions. The enquiry will be made with some reference to science, but more toconvince by demonstration than to confound by abstruse perplexities. Sothat, while empty declamation is avoided, the principles of truth aremeant to be investigated by reason and experience. With this view, theNature of Green, Souchong, and Bohea teas is first considered. To judgeof the nature of these herbs with equal candour and propriety, it maybe necessary to consider their qualities in relation to what areascribed them, and what have been discovered by their analysis, andwhat have resulted from experience. The virtues that have been ascribedto them are chiefly, being a greatful diluent in health, and salutaryin sickness, by attenuating viscid juices, promoting naturalexcretions, exciting appetite, and proving particularly serviceable infevers, immoderate sleepiness, and head-aches after a debauch. It isalso added to the list of their ascribed virtues, that there is noplant yet known, the infusions of which pass more freely from the body, or more speedily excite the spirits. To a person of any physicalknowledge, these qualities will either appear contradictory inthemselves, or rather ultimately injurious, than absolutely beneficial. As the full examination of these assumed qualities, by the rules ofscience, would require a volume, instead of a few pages, which thelimits of this Essay will afford, the enquiry must be made asperspicuous as the necessity of brevity will admit. Allowing they arediluting in health, their constant use may so attenuate the liquids asto destroy their natural force and tensity. But Boerhaave says, thereis no proper diluent but water; it is therefore evident it is thewater, and not the tea, which is the diluting medium. With respect toits being an attenuative of viscid humours, it can never possess thisvirtue from being a diluent, for an attenuant acts _specially_ onthe particles, by diminishing their bulk, while the diluent acts uponthe whole mass of the fluid. 

The general body of the liquid may be diluted while the viscid humoursremain unresolved. Indeed, the operation of an attenuant is not easilyknown; for many are surprised that a slight inflammation should be sodifficult to dissipate. But their surprise would cease, were they toconsider, that medicines act more generally upon the whole body thanabstractedly upon the part affected. Suppose to attenuate somecoagulated blood, six grains of volatile salt were given, how small aproportion must come to the part diseased, when these grains, by thelaws of circulation, will mix with the entire mass of blood, consistingat least of thirty pounds!

Teas being said to promote natural excretions, can be no recommendationof what is generally used; for this constant effect must render themtoo copious, and thus, according to all physical experience, the bloodmust be thickened in the greater vessels, which frequently terminatesin an atrophy. 

The appetite being excited by the drinking of tea, is more a proof ofits attrition of the solids than any stimulus to a wholesome desire offood. This quality accounts for the acrimonious effects too many haveexperienced by its use. Many have not only had their bloodimpoverished, but corrupted by the constant drinking of these teas. Whether it arises from any positive acrimonious salt it naturallypossesses, or from any acquired corrosiveness from its mode of drying, is not here necessary to enquire: it is only requisite to state that apernicious effect is too fatally experienced by those who areunfortunately its slaves. 

How India tea can be serviceable in fevers is not easy to beunderstood; for, if it has that effect upon the nerves to excitewatchfulness, it must greatly tend to increase, instead of diminishfeverish symptoms. Dr. Buchan attributes even one cause of the palsy todrinking much tea or coffee, &c. And, in a note, he subjoins: "Manypeople imagine that tea has no tendency to hurt the nerves, and thatdrinking the same quantity of warm water would be equally pernicious. This, however, seems to be a mistake, many persons drinking three orfour cups of warm milk and water daily, without feeling any badconsequences; yet the same quantity of tea will make their hands shakefor twenty-four hours. That tea affects the nerves is likewise evidentfrom its preventing sleep, occasioning giddiness, dimness of the sight, sickness, &c. "

With regard to India teas possessing the quality of exciting thespirits, this, like every other stimulus, either by constant use losesits effect, or unnerves the system it is meant to strengthen. Thenerves through which the animal spirits circulate being, like thestrings of a violin or harpsichord, too frequently braced, lose, atlast, their natural tensity, and thus render the human frame one systemof debility. 

Having thus, as briefly as possible, stated that even their ascribedvirtues are either derogatory to all physical principle, or elsedestructive to the constitution, from their constant use, the nature ofIndia teas is next considered, with respect to what appears to be theirchief component parts, from analyzation. 

Teas have been found to consist principally of narcotic salts, someastringent oil, and earth. These being found in greater quantities inbohea than in green teas, those who have very sensible and elasticnerves must be seized with a greater tremor after drinking the formerthan the latter. The continual and regular influx of the nervous juicesis stopped by their component fibres being contracted from theroughness and restringency of such decoctions. The force of the heat, or the brain's propulsion of its nervous juice, being inferior to theresistance of the whole ramified fibres thus encreased by the suddencontraction and unequal motion, the flow of the animal spirits must begreatly impeded and disordered. In fact, the influx suffers asuspension, until the fibres, by relaxing again, admit their emptytubes to receive their appropriated liquids. Thus even green tea must, especially if taken strong and often, stop the natural circulation ofhumours, and produce the attendant defects of depression of spirits, deficiency of secretion, loss of appetite, decrease of strength, wasteof body, and, finally, a total want of effective vigour in all theanimal functions. But, as above observed, bohea tea possessing ingreater quantity the pernicious ingredients, the vessels are throwninto momentary spasms and convulsive vibrations, by the relaxing powerof the narcotic salts, and the contracting force of the astringent oiland earth. And here it must be noticed, that oil mixed with salt isrendered astringent: thus all vegetables, where a mixture of bothprevails, are reckoned stimulating. The narcotic power of the salt isderived from its hindering the flux of the animal spirits through thenerves. 

The stomach and bowels being weakened by the above causes, windycomplaints or flatulencies are consequently produced. This caused Dr. Whytt, in his advice to patients afflicted with such diseases, todesire they would abstain from India tea, as one of the flatulentaliments chiefly to be avoided. 

If the slightest external motion alone produces the following changesin the body, what effects may not be ascribed to the constant use ofteas, which we find, as before stated, operate internally? A person inperfect health, having his nostrils only touched with a feather, cannotavoid his body being so convulsed as to produce what is commonly calledsneezing. But if the number of muscles agitated, the force andstraining of the body by sneezing, are considered; the slightness ofthe cause must excite no little astonishment; for this action isoccasioned by the muscles of the scapula, abdomen, diaphragm, thorax, lungs, &c. And if the sneezing continues, an universal explosion of theliquids ensues: tears, mucus, saliva, and urine, are excreted. Thus, without any moist, cold, hot, dry, sulphur, salt, or any other internalor external application, an involuntary motion of all the solids andfluids is produced by a feather touching, in the slightest manner, theinside of our nostrils. But Boerhaave relates further, "That ifsneezing continues a long time, as it will by taking one hundredth partof a grain of euphorbium up the nose, grievous and continuedconvulsions will arise, head-aches, involuntary excretions of urine, &c. , vomitings, febrile heats, and other dreadful symptoms; and, atlast, death itself will ensue. " It is therefore evident that theslightest bodies produce the greatest changes in the human frame. 

Such is the power of certain particles upon the nerves, that thestomach will be thrown into convulsions that almost threaten aninversion, by taking only four ounces of a wine in which so small aportion of glass of antimony as one scruple is infused in eight poundsof the former. And what is still more remarkable is, that the glass ofantimony remains not only undissolved, but, comparatively speaking, undiminished in its weight. 

These being a few of the fatal afflictions which experience shews to befrequently the consequence of drinking India teas, its injurious natureis too evident to require any further investigation of either theirascribed or positive qualities. The next subject to be considered, relative to India teas, is their Preparation. 

Among the different authors of any consequence that have written on theculture, preparation, and virtues of foreign teas, may be rankedKampfer, Postlethwaite, Dr. Cunningham, Priestley, Lemery, Franchus, Meister, and Sigesbeck; as the limits of this Treatise will not permita detail of observations from the whole of these writers, remarks canonly be selected from the most principal of them. Most of the above, and many other, authors agree that the leaves are spread upon ironplates, and thus dried with several little furnaces contained in oneroom. This mode of preparation must greatly tend to deprive the shrubof its native juices, and to contract a rust from the iron on which itis dried. This may probably be the cause of vitriol turning tea into aninky blackness. We therefore do not think with Boerhaave, that thepreparers employ green vitriol for improving the colour of the finergreen teas. It may however be concluded, from the colour of bohea, souchong, and such as are called black teas, that they may be thustinctured, by the means of vitriol, after they have been dried upon theiron plates in the furnace room; and this may likewise particularlycause that astringent quality which is more experienced in all theblack than any of the green teas. According to Sigesbeck, the coloursof these teas are artificial; so that if these pernicious arts are usedeven to give the tea a particular colour, there is no difficulty inascribing the cause of their injurious effects. 

That the native virtues of these teas are liable to considerableperversion is evident from the manner in which Meister relates they areprepared. He says the leaves are put into a hot kettle just emptied ofboiling water, and that they are kept in this closely covered untilthey are cold, when they are strewed upon the hot plates abovementioned for drying. It is easy to conceive how the virtues of a leaf, however salutary by nature, must be destroyed by such a process. Beingthus put into a steaming kettle, and suffered to remain there untilthey are cold, must cause the greatest part of their Virtues toevaporate, and the leaves to imbibe an unwholesome taint from theeffluvia of the steaming metal. It cannot, therefore, be ascertainedwhether teas that are imported in Europe, after such a mutatingpreparation, have the least remains of their original odour or flavour, no more than they have of their qualities; but, on the contrary, itseems impossible but that the original nature of this shrub is entirelydestroyed by an artificial preparation. Some falsely suppose that thisspecies of management is only to soften such of the leaves as are growntoo dry, and are therefore liable to break in the curling; but thiswill evidently appear not the cause, when it is considered that thegreater part of the teas must dry in such a hot climate while they aregathering: and as they are particularly anxious to send them in ascurious a curled state as possible, such teas must be thus moistenedagain, in order to curl them afterwards in that perfect manner which isperformed on the iron plates of the furnace. 

The opinion, therefore, of teas deriving their green colour from beingdried upon copper being founded on a misrepresentation of the manner inwhich they are really prepared, a few observations upon the subject areindispensibly necessary. For those who have always understood that thedetrimental qualities of foreign teas were the consequence of theirbeing dried upon copper, may perhaps imagine they cannot be sopernicious if they were dried upon iron; but this opinion cannot beentertained by any persons who have the least knowledge of the mannerin which the vegetable acid will corrode iron. Those who are acquaintedwith culinary processes must know in what manner the acid of onionswill operate upon any steel instrument; it corrodes a knife so as toturn the onions black with the particles eaten away from the edge andthe face of the blade. To avoid this unwholsome and unseemlyinconvenience, a wooden instrument is generally used in all instanceswhere onions form a part of the cookery appendages. It is consequentlyevident, that although iron utensils are now greatly used instead ofcopper, yet many injurious effects may happen from their being liableto be corroded by the acid of several vegetables. And if the nitrousacid of the air will corrode iron so as to cause rust, when it will notproduce the proportionate effect upon copper, it is a demonstrationthat iron is the most liable to such a corruption. The corrosions ofcopper are undoubtedly pernicious; but the damage that tea would derivefrom its being dried upon sheets of this metal would not operate soinjuriously to those who drink it as it does now by lying dried uponiron. For the latter bring more liable to the power of the mineral, vegetable, or animal acid, must impart more particles of its reducedcalax to the tea than copper would. And, in order to shew howsusceptible of corrosion iron is, the following instance is fartheradduced: in Ireland, where some persons practise the art of tanningleather with fern, which possesses a very strong acid, particular careis taken to avoid using any iron vessels in the tannage, lest thecolour of the leather should be blackened by the corroding particle ofthe metal. As it is the peculiar property of iron or steely particles, even in their most perfect state, to operate as too great an astringentfor an aliment that is taken twice a day constantly, tea, when driedupon it, must be rendered proportionably pernicious. But admitting thatthe popular opinion of their being dried upon copper was just, the teasmust be rendered proportionably injurious to the quantity of copperasor crude vitriol they imbibe from their acidity corroding the metal. Preparations of steel, that are, in many instances, considered as mostsalutary, yet in all pulmonary disorders the most eminent physicianshave deemed them exceedingly dangerous. And in a country, like GreatBritain, Holland, and other places, where a cloudy atmosphere, causedfrom their marshy soil or watery situation, renders most of theinhabitants subject to complaints of the lungs, foreign teas, contaminated by these iron corrosions, must be particularlydetrimental. It is therefore, from these considerations, evident, thatforeign teas, by being dried upon iron, have their bad qualities soincreased as to render them the most pernicious of any morning andevening liquid that has yet been taken. ----To return from whence webegan this short digression. 

It is remarkable that no satisfactory account has yet been given inwhat the bohea differs from the green tea. Dr. Cunningham, physician tothe English settlement at Cimsan, and Kampfer assert, that the bohea isthe leaves of the first collection. 

This, however, being contrary to the general report of all travellers, that none of the first produce is brought to Europe, must bediscredited; for these are all preserved for the Princes, to whom theyare sold, even in China, at an immense price. Another proof is, thatthe boheas are brought here in the most considerable quantities, at aprice greatly inferior to what even the second, third, and fourth cropsare sold for in China. This not only evinces how inferior in qualitythe black tea must be, but also how little they are valued among thosewho must be acquainted with their properties. 

Although the European dealers divide the green teas chiefly into threesorts, and the boheas into five, yet it is unknown from what provincethey are brought, of what crop they are the produce, and to which ofthe Chinese sorts they belong. 

Added to their abuse of preparation may be that of their package. It isimpossible but to know that their bad qualities must be considerablyaugmented by being so closely packed, for such a length of time, insuch slight wooden chests, lined with a composition of wood and lead. Considerable quantities are likewise damaged by salt water and othercauses, which, by the management of the tea dealers, are mostly mixed, and sold under different denominations. How the tea must be affected bythe corrosion of the lead and tin by the marine acid, those of theleast chemical knowledge will easily determine. To what danger must, therefore, the constitution of those who are in the constant habit ofdrinking such an empoisoned drug be exposed, may easily be imagined. Surely, when all these circumstances are considered respecting thepernicious mode of preparation, and particularly the poisonousqualities they are also liable to contract from the nature of theirpackage, every person must be convinced to what a loss of health, ifnot of life, the constant use of such teas must expose them. Suchevidence of their deleterious tendency is almost sufficient to alarmmankind against so prevailing an evil, without any further arguments;but as health is too precious not to require every possible proof thatcan persuade us to avoid what so immediately threatens our existence, the following arguments and testimonies of the bad qualities of foreignteas must not be omitted. Previous, however, to an investigation oftheir effects, it may be necessary to say a few words respecting

THE MANNER OF USING. 

Foreign tea, as before observed, being taken as two principal meals ofour daily aliment, is undoubtedly one great reason of the constitutionof the people having suffered an entire change in its system. Thatvigour, spirits, and longevity, which characterised us in the lastcentury, is totally subverted; disease, dismay, and debility, now leadus prematurely to the grave, where we end an existence too deplorableto excite the least desire for a longer continuance. Dr. Priestleystates, very justly, in his Medical Essays, that it is curious toobserve the revolution which hath taken place, within this century, inthe constitutions of the inhabitants of Europe. Inflammatory diseasesmore rarely occur, and in general are much less rapid and violent intheir progress than formerly; nor do they admit of the sameantiphlogistic method of cure which was practised with success ahundred years ago. The experienced Sydenham makes forty ounces of bloodthe mean quantity to be drawn in the acute rheumatism; whereas thisdisease, as it now appears in the London hospitals, will not bear abovehalf that evacuation. Vernal intermittents are frequently cured by avomit and the bark, without venęsection, which is a proof that, atpresent, they are accompanied with fewer symptoms of inflammation thanthey were wont to be. This advantageous change, however, is more thancounterbalanced by the introduction of a numerous class of nervousaliments, in a greater measure, unknown to our ancestors, but which nowprevail universally, and are complicated with almost every otherdistemper. The bodies of men are enfeebled and enervated; and it is notuncommon to observe very high degrees of irritability under theexternal appearance of great strength and robustness. Thehypochondriac, palsies, cachexies, dropsies, and all those diseaseswhich arise from laxity and debility, are, in our days, endemic everywhere; and the hysterics, which used to be peculiar to the women, asthe name itself indicates, now attacks both sexes indiscriminately. Itis evident that so great a revolution could not be effected without theconcurrence of many causes; but amongst these, I apprehend, the presentgeneral use of tea holds the first and principal rank. The second causemay perhaps be allotted to excess in spirituous liquors. Thispernicious custom owes its rise to the former, which, by the lownessand depression of spirits it occasions, renders it almost necessary tohave recourse to what is cordial and exhilarating; and hence proceedsthose odious and disgraceful habits of intemperance with which too manyof the softer sex of every degree are now, alas! chargeable. These arethe sentiments of a character distinguished for his elaborateresearches and judicious discoveries in almost every branch of liberalscience. It may therefore be safely concluded, that the general mannerof using India tea morning and evening has been, and is, the principalcause of the greater part of the diseases with which the natives ofEurope are now afflicted. When it is considered that the first mealwhich is taken to recruit the body, after the loss it sustains from theinsensible perspiration of the preceding night, and to prepare it forthe avocations of the succeeding day, is India tea, who can besurprised that nature should rapidly become the victim of disease?Thus, instead of being supported by nutritious aliment, its nerves areenfeebled, its spirits diminished, and all its functions enveloped withthe gloom of melancholy. Even in the afternoon, when nature isexhausted by care and fatigue, we fly for refreshment to tea, which, instead of bracing, still further relaxes the unnerved system. Such arethe evil effects of the imprudent manner in which this pernicious drugis so constantly and universally used. But how must these evils appearin their extent, when the following view is taken of India teas, withregard to their variety of injurious EFFECTS. 

In all the physical experiments that have been made upon India teas, there is, perhaps, none that shews its acid astringency more than onetried by the above writer, Dr. Priestley. Endeavouring to trace thedifferences and ascertain the astringency and bitterness of vegetablesreciprocally bear to each other, he imagined he had found they weredistinct and separate properties, by the following experiment: Takingtwo pieces of calf-skin just stripped from the calf, he immerged themin cold infusions of green and bohea tea; at the expiration of a weekhe found they were hard and curled up, and that there was no sensibledifference between them. He therefore concluded, that this experimentafforded a striking proof of India tea differently affecting a dead anda living fibre; this he considered as the greatest effect of amedicine. But, with deference to so distinguished an author, I cannotbut attribute this astringency of the skin to the particular propertiesof India tea; for all physical as well as medical experience provesthat vegetable produce afford some that are astringent, and others thatare relaxant, of the dead as well as the living fibre. Oak bark isequally astringent, and hardens the fibres of the hide, as well as itbraces the living nerve of our bodies; therefore the effect produced bythe India tea upon the dead skin only proves, what we have beforerelated, that an infusion of it has a peculiar effect, which, being toofrequently applied to the nerves, destroys their tensity by their finefibres being either broken or relaxed by overbracing. Were anyastringent to be constantly taken, it must ultimately produce more orless such an effect; so that while the above experiment of the learnedPhilosopher demonstrates that India tea has the power of astringing thedead as well as the living fibres, it does not prove that astringencybitterness are separate qualities. On the contrary, bitterness seems tobe the characteristic taste of all that has the tendency to contractwhatever is the subject of its application. Thus galls, bark, rhubarb, camomile tea, &c. &c. Are all bitter and astringent. It is, therefore, the immoderate use of such an astringent that ultimately relaxes anddebilitates: like the too frequent bracing of a drum, or any otherstringed musical instrument, destroys its tensity, the body is unnervedby the overstretching of its fibres. Although we sometimes differ withthe celebrated Doctor in part of the conclusion he has drawn from hisexperiment, yet the following sentiments so perfectly coincide with allour observations upon India teas, that we are happy to have theopportunity of corroborating our own with the sentiments of so eminenta Philosopher. He says, from his experiments, "it appears that greenand bohea teas are equally bitter, strike precisely the same blacktinge with green vitriol, and are alike astringent on the simple fibre. From this exact similarity in so many circumstances, one should be ledto suppose that there would be no sensible diversity in their operationon the living body; but the fact is otherwise: green tea is much moresedative and relaxant than bohea; and the finer the species of tea, themore debilitating and pernicious are its effects, as I have frequentlyobserved in others, and experienced in myself. This seems to be a proofthat the mischiefs ascribed to this oriental vegetable do not arisefrom the warm vehicle by which it is conveyed into the stomach, butchiefly from its own peculiar qualities. " Dr. Hugh Smith, in hisTreatise on the Action of the Muscles, justly says, that an infusion ofIndia tea not only diminishes, but destroys the bodily functions. _Thea infusum, nervo musculove ranę admotum, vires motices minuitperdit. _ Newman, in his Chemistry, says, when fresh gathered, teasare said to be narcotic, and to disorder the senses; the Chinese, therefore, cautiously abstain from their use until they have been kepttwelve months. The reason attributed for bohea tea being less injuriousthan green is, being more hastily dried, the pernicious qualities morecopiously evaporate. 

"Tea, " says Dr. Hugh Smith, in his Dissertation upon the Nerves, "isvery hurtful both to the stomach and nerves. Phrensies, deliriums, vigilation, idiotism, apoplexies, and other disorders of the brain, areall produced by the nerves being thus disarranged and debilitated. Ifthe digestive faculty of the stomach be weakened, the body, failing ofrecruiting juices, must tend to emaciation, and the whole frame berendered one system of distress and infirmity. The nerves, being thusdeprived of a sufficiency of their animal spirits, must become languid, and leave every sense void of the first means of conveying to the mindthe only enjoyments of our temporal existence. 

"But if there be any class of persons to whom India tea is moreparticularly hurtful than to any other, it is that which includes thestudious and sedentary, and especially those who are enfeebled withgout, stone, and rheumatism; age, accident, or avocation, cause manypersons to be unfortunately ranked amongst those of the latterdescription. These, from their intensity of thought, want of exercise, injurious position of body, respiration of unwholesome air, and avariety of other causes, have not only their animal spirits exhausted, but their liquids corrupted from the loss of a necessary circulation. With these evils India tea operates as an absolute poison. Indeed, itfrequently renders those incurable, who might, by other means, havebeen relieved. 

"When a view is taken of the dismal effects produced by India teas, themind seems to be bewildered in searching for the cause of using sogenerally a drug that is so universally destructive. It chieflyoriginated in a fundamental mistake of physical principles. About thetime that India tea was introduced to Europe, a grievous error creptinto the practice of medical professors; they falsely imagined thathealth could not be more promoted than by increasing the fluidity ofthe blood. This opinion once established, it is no wonder that mankind, with one accord, adopted the infusion of India tea, which was then anovelty to Europe, as the best means of obtaining the above effect. Bythe advice of Bentikoe chiefly was the pernicious custom of drinkingwarm liquors, night and day, established. To this man, and theintroduction of India tea, may be ascribed that revolution in thehealth of Europeans which has happened since the last century. Thepresent age, therefore, have great cause to lament, in what they sufferin nervous complaints, that their forefathers did not attend more tothe scientific and judicious advice of the illustrious Duncan, Boerhaave, and the whole school of Leyden, who proscribed this error. Although they could not entirely prevent this physical abuse, yet theirzealous endeavours did, in some degree, at first impede its progress;but, however, so powerful did novelty plead in favour of India teas, that, at last, general custom and prejudice bore away every barrierthat had been erected by these learned and experienced physicians. Thiserror, instead of diminishing, has increased: most valetudinarians arenow of opinion that a thick blood is the sole cause of theircomplaints; with this impression they adopt what they call the diluentbeverage of India teas. It can scarcely be imagined how many disordersthis practice produces; it may be justly termed the box of Pandora, without even hope remaining at the bottom. " Tissot says, "They are theprolific sources of hypochondriac melancholy, which both adds strengthto and is one of the worst of disorders. " He adds, "with regard tostudious men, who are naturally weak and feeble, such warm beveragesare more hurtful to them than to others; for they are not troubled withan over thick, but, on the contrary, too thin a blood. You are allaware, " continues he, "respectable auditors, that the density of theblood is as the motion of the solids; the fibres of the learned arerelaxed, their motions are slow, and their blood, of consequence, thin. Bleed a ploughman and a doctor at the same time; from the first therewill flow a thick blood, resembling inflammatory blood, almost solid, and of a deep red; the blood of the latter will be either of a faintred, or without any colour, soft, gelatinous, and will almost entirelyturn them to water. Your blood, therefore, men of learning, should notbe dissolved, but brought to a consistence; and you should in generalbe moderate in the article of drinking, and cautiously avoid warmspirituous liquors. 

"Amongst the favorite beverages of the learned, " the same Tissotobserves, "is the infusion of that famous leaf, so well known by thename of India tea, which, to our great detriment, has every year, forthese two centuries past, been constantly imported from China andJapan. This most pernicious gift first destroys the strength of thestomach, and if it be not soon laid aside, equally destroys that of theviscera, the blood, the nerves, and of the whole body; so thatmalignant and all chronical disorders will appear to increase, especially nervous disorders, in proportion as the use of India teabecomes common; and you may easily form a judgment, from the diseasesthat prevail in every country, whether the inhabitants are lovers oftea or the contrary. How happy would it be for Europe, if, by unanimousconsent, the importation of this infamous leaf was prohibited, which isendued only with a corrosive force derived from the acrimony of a gumwith which it is pregnant. "

Having thus considered the dismal and too frequently fatal consequencesof the nerves being affected, it is presumed this part of the Essaycannot be more interestingly concluded than by a summary of thedistinct symptomatic effects attending, more or less, complaints of thenerves; and although the following symptoms are alarming with regard totheir number and variety, yet the reader may be assured there is notone specified but what is either the immediate or ultimate effect of anervous affection, and which is too frequently the consequence of theviolent astringency of foreign tea taken injudiciously as a constantaliment:--A faintness, succeeded with a delusive vision of motes, mists, and clouds, falling backwards and forwards before thedistempered sight--A yawning, gaping, stretching out of the arms, twitching of the nerves, sneezing, drowsiness, and contraction of thebreast--Dulness, debility, distress, and dismay, with a great sense ofweariness--A wan complexion, a languid eye, a loathing stomach, and anuncertain appetite, which, if not immediately satisfied, isirremediably lost--Heartburning, bilious vomitings, belchings, pains inthe pit of the stomach, and shortness of breath--Dizziness, inveteratepains in the temples and other parts of the head, a tingling noise inthe ear, a throbbing of the brain, especially of the temporalarteries--Symptoms of asthma, tickling coughs, visible inflations, andunusual scents affecting the olfactory nerves--Sometimes costive andsometimes relaxed--Sudden flushings of heat, and suffusions ofcountenance--In the night, alternate sweats and shiverings, especiallydown the back, which seems to feel as if water was poured down thatpart of the body--A ptyalism, or discharge of phlegm from the glands ofthe throat, which generally attends all the symptoms--Troublesome painsbetween the shoulders, pains attended with hot sensations, cramps andconvulsive motions of the muscles, or a few of their fibres--Suddenstartings of the tendons of the legs and arms--Copious and frequentdischarges of pale and limpid urine--Vertigoes, long faintings, andcold, moist, clammy sweat about the temples and forehead--Wanderingpains in the sides, back, knees, ancles, arms, wrists, and somewhatresembling rheumatic pains--The head generally warm, while the rest ofthe body is cold or chilly--Obstinate watchinqs, disturbed sleep, frightful dreams, the night mare, startings when awake, and the mindfilled with the most terrific apprehensions--Tremors of the limbs, andpalpitations of the heart--A very variable and irregularpulse--Periodical pains in the head--A sense of suffocation, frequentsighings, and shedding of tears--Convulsive spasms of the muscles, tendons, nerves of the back, loins, arms, hands, and a generalconvulsion of the stomach, bowels, throat, legs, and indeed almostevery other part of the body--A quick apprehension, forgetful, unsettled, and constant to nothing but inconstancy--A wandering anddelirious imagination, groundless fears, and an exquisite sense of hissufferings--A gradually sinking into a nervous atrophy orconsumption--A perpetual alarm of approaching death--Sometimescheerful, and sometimes melancholy--Without present enjoyment or futureexpectation of any thing but increasing misery and debility. --If thesesymptoms are inconsiderately suffered to continue, they soon terminatein palsy, hip, madness, epilepsy, apoplexy, or in some mortal disease, as the black jaundice, dropsy, consumption, &c. 

Having ascertained, from this enquiry, the injurious properties ofIndia tea, it may naturally be expected that I should propose somearticle that might prove more beneficial. With this requisition I shallmost readily comply, although I may expose myself to the invidiouscensure of having directed all my efforts to establish the celebrity ofwhatever article I may recommend. But being convinced, that, bypublishing the virtue of a tea that I have investigated from physicalanalysis and particular observation, I may essentially serve thepublic, I am content to suffer the obloquy, provided it is productiveof a general benefit. Having, as before observed, examined, with thegreatest attention, the nature of most articles that have been offeredas morning and afternoon beverage, there are two which claim mostparticularly the preference of all others that are sold under thedenomination of Tea: these are, 1st, that which was discovered by thateminent botanist Sir Hans Sloane; and the other, by a botanist andphysician equally celebrated, Dr. Solander. I therefore, withoutconsidering in what manner the interest of the proprietors of theseteas may be individually affected, propose two articles, in order toshew that my partiality or opinion of the virtues of the one could notprejudice me so far as to prevent my allowing due praise to any otherpossessing qualities deserving approbation. I am happy to state that, from my analysis of that invented by Sir Hans Sloane, called BritishTea, I found it possesses most singular virtues for relieving manynervous complaints; but, from the same trials and experiments made onthat invented by Dr. Solander, I have been convinced that, although thequalities of the former are exceedingly salutary, they are not sogeneral in their restoration and nutritious effects as the latter. Being thus convinced of the extraordinary properties of Dr. Solander'sTea, I have been induced to state, in a Treatise upon their Nature, Preparation, and Effects, reasons founded on chemical analysis, physical efficiency, and experimental observation, in support of theirmost eminent virtues. After every trial I have made of coffee, chocolate[1], and most other preparations that have been, and are atpresent, offered to the public as a substitute for tea, none seem toclaim the preference so eminently as that invented by Dr. Solander. From their analysis, I find their virtues are of the most correctiveand balsamic kind; they strengthen the tone of the stomach, not byastringing the solids, but by lubricating the vessels, sheathing theacrids, and attenuating the liquids. 

 [1] "_Coffee. --In bilious habits it is very hurtful. _" Dr. Carr's Med. Epist. P. 25. 

 "_Coffee. --I cannot advise it to those of hardness of breathing. _" Ibid. P. 29. 

 "_Coffee, according to Paule, a Danish physician, enervates men and renders them incapable of generation, which injurious tendency is certainly attributed to it by the Turks. From its immoderate use they account for the decrease of population in their provinces, that were so numerously peopled before this berry was introduced among them. Mr. Boyle mentions an instance of a person to whom Coffee always proved an emetic. He also says that he has known great drinking of it produce the palsy. _

 "_Chocolate is too gross for many weak stomachs, and exceedingly injurious to those liable to phlegm and viscid humours. _" Saunders's Nat. & Art. Direct. For Health. 

 "_Chocolate overloads the stomach, and renders the juices too slow in their circulation. _" Smith on the Nerves. 

In this manner they restore the equilibrium of the oscillatory motions, which establish the tone of the nervous system. This beingstrengthened, the animal spirits are enabled to dispense their revivinginfluence to the sensitive, digestive, and intellectual powers. Andthese being thus restored to their vigour of operation, a simple andmoderate portion of food is rendered the most nutritious, and the bodyis consequently established in the enjoyment of health and happiness. 

The above virtues of the sanative tea are not here asserted as adeclamatory panegyric, but as the result of a physical analysis oftheir nature, and a serious examination into their mode of operating asa restorative and constant aliment. Without presuming their qualitiesto be an unlimited remedy for all complaints, the nature of thepreparation of this tea is compared with the causes and effects ofnervous disorders: from this comparison their relative virtue to suchdiseases are most clearly evinced: and thus is this invaluablediscovery proved to be the most effectual remedy for all thosecomplaints caused by drinking foreign teas, that was ever yet or may behereafter invented. 

In proposing to the public any simple or compound, for the preserving, increasing, or restoring health, the first object should be to explainits nature. This is the principal test by which its merits can beknown, or mankind rationally induced to try its virtues. And as thissanative tea is offered as a substitute for what is generally used astwo fourths of our aliment, and which, from the preceding enquiry, hasbeen found the principal cause of our present infirmities, the greaternecessity there is for a candid investigation of its nature. 

Impressed with the above conviction, it is fairly stated that thenature of this sanative tea is not from any combination of the animalor mineral kingdom, but a collection of the most salutary native andexotic herbs that are produced in the vegetable empire of nature. Thesehave not been collected by the fanatic devotees of occult qualities, but by the scientific researches and personal experience of a characterthat is equally and justly admired for his philosophical, medical, andbotanical knowledge. The discoverer, Dr. Solander, of this tea, inquired into the virtues of each native and exotic herb of which it iscomposed, not only by abstract reasoning upon its relative qualities, but by the more immediate evidence of his senses: by submitting eachvegetable to his taste and smell, he derived the most certain physicalproof of its qualities. Thus he knew the particular virtues of each, and what salutary effects they must, from their preparation as acompound, produce when applied as a relief for the innumerable diseasescaused by drinking foreign teas. Not confining himself to _EnglishPlants_, he studied and examined the virtues of _Exotics_, among whichhe discovered some that possess virtues he had not found in those ofhis own country: by adopting these, he has increased the salutaryeffects of his invaluable tea. From reading Hippocrates, Discorides, and Galen, he found the ancients derived all their knowledge of plantsby their taste and smell. With these examples before him, and his ownpropensity to study, joined to his penetrating judgement, it is nowonder he should have so well succeeded. Thus he recurred to theoriginal mode of inquiry, which first established and raised theeminence of physic; neglecting that delusive principle of Aristotle'sphilosophy, which has since taught too many physicians to express thevirtue of medicines by hot, cold, moist, and dry, without deriving theleast information from their senses Dr. Solander, aided by chemicalanalysis, distinguished the virtue by the taste or odour of everyplant. By this means their specific juices he found tasted eitherearthy, mucilaginous, sweet, bitter, aromatic, fetid, acrid, orcorrosive. From this experience he found the observation of somebotanists to be true, "That there is no virtue yet known in plants butwhat depends on the taste or smell, and may be known by them. "[2] Withthis infallible means of pursuing his enquiry, he formed a tea composedof herbs that are in their nature astringent, balsamic, aromatic, cephalic, and diaphoretic. These virtues combined may be said to formone of the most incomparable specifics, as a nutritive and restoringaliment, that has been discovered. 

 [2] _Floyer, Malpighus, Epew, Harvey, Willis, Lower, Needham, Glisson, &c. _

In the astringent, the acid fixing upon the more earthly parts, thenutritious oil is more easily separated, which renders them alsopectoral, cleaning, and diuretic. This part of the tea is in its natureparticularly serviceable in all cases where vulnerary medicines arerequisite. They particularly amend the acid in the nervous juice, andthus restore the equal motion of the spirits, which were obstructed orretarded by spasms or convulsions. By the volatile oil and volatilepungent salt, obstructions are opened, and the motions of the languidblood increased to a healthy degree of circulation. They resolvecoagulated phlegm in the stomach, preserve the fluidity of the juices, and promote digestion, by assisting the bile in its operation. 

And with regard to their balsamic and aromatic nature, these qualitieswarm the stomach and expel wind, by rarefying the flatuous exhalationsfrom chyle in the prima vię. These, by their sweetness, allay thesharpness of rheums, and lenify their acrimony. Being filled with anoily salt, they open the passage of the lungs and kidnies. By openingthe pores, they extraordinarily discuss outward tumours, and attenuatethe internal coagulation. All these virtues may be said to be derivedfrom the union of their balsamic oil and volatile salt. 

By a second class of aromatics, with which Dr. Solander composed thissanative tea, is such as have a bitter astringency joined to theirvolatile oil and salt. These united qualities correct acids in thestomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands causedby coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids inthe glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha andsuccus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervousjuice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity andstagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion andcorrecting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves morevolatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics. And as it is theproperty of volatiles to ascend, the reason is evident of the brainbeing assisted by their salutary qualities. These aromatics likewiseevacuate serum from the blood, promote its circulation, and attenuatethe coagulations of chyle, lympha, and succus nervosus. And here, it isproper to add, that all aromatics, by rarefying the blood, are cordial. There being aromatic astringents in this tea, its infusion strengthensthe fibres and membranes of the stomach, and all the nervous system, insuch a manner as not to destroy their tensity by that too greatcontraction caused by the foreign teas; and, having no acid in theirastringency, the blood is preserved from too great a rarefaction, whichwould otherwise happen from the pungency of their oily qualities. Thesealso excite the appetite, by stimulating the natural progress of thechyle, and thus prevent its too rapid fermentation of its spirituousparts into windy flatulencies. For the same reason vinegar is takenwith hot meats and herbs. Having mentioned vinegar, it may not beimproper to state this vegetable acid is the best antidote against thepoison of any acrid herbs. That part of the tea which has amucilaginous taste is inwardly cooler than oil, although it bedifferent in nature. Such herbs defend the throat from the sharpness ofrheums, the stomach from corrosive humours of disease or acrimoniousmedicines; the ureters from sharp, choleric, or acid urine, andlubricate the passage for the stony gravel. Their crude parts cool theheat of scorbutic blood, lessen its violent motion, and sheathe itsacrid saline particles. 

By their different mucilaginous principles they produce the followingvarious salutary effects:

The earthy repel and cool outward inflammations. 

The watery, which is thick and gummose, stop fluxes and correct sharphumours. 

Those of an oily odour alleviate pains. 

Those of a pungent acrid dissolve tartareous concretions in thekidnies. 

From these and a variety of other salutary properties, it is evidentthe general nature of Dr. Solander's tea is such as to correct acridhumours, promote the secretions, restore the equilibrium between thefluids and solids, and finally to brace every part of the relaxednervous system. The body being thus relieved from obstructions, itscirculations restored, the digestive faculties invigorated, and thespirits re-animated, the debilitated constitution is reinstated in allits enjoyments of health and hilarity. It may be therefore observed, that the principle of this tea is to nourish as a general aliment, while it renovates the human constitution, without having recourse tothe nauseous portions of galenical preparation, or the hazardous trialof chalybeate waters. As this tea is particularly salutary in all caseswhere mineral waters are generally recommended, it is very proper thePublic should be cautioned against the danger which too frequentlyattends the constant drinking of them. 

Chalybeate waters, it must be acknowledged, have effected veryextraordinary cures in certain cases. But when so great an author asHelmont says, that such waters are fatal to all those who are afflictedwith peripneumonic complaints, it is surely necessary they should beresorted to with the greatest caution; and even in complaints wherethey may be serviceable, it is necessary to observe whether they reallypossess those chalybeate qualities for which they are commended. Thosewho have written upon their virtues assert, and with seeming propriety, that where they deposit an ochreous sediment, they are certainlydispossessed of their steely virtues; for ochre being no other than thecalx of iron, such a residue evinces the evaporation of the moreeminent properties of the chalybeate, by the phlogiston of the mineralescaping by its extreme volatility. Every metal deprived of thisigneous principle is immediately reduced to a calx, and thus deprivedof its splendour, fusibility, and other properties, until restoredagain by the readmission of its phlogiston. Calcined lead having lostthis inflammable quality, is reduced to a red calx or mineral earth, which, if fluxed with any igneous body, such as oil, pitch, wax, fat, wood, bone, or mineral oil or bitumen, the fiery principle is resorbed, and the lead restored to its essential qualities; from these physicalobservations the reader may be convinced of those mineral waters asafford such a sediment being in a state of decomposition. They are thusdeprived of one of the four elements or principles of which they areall more or less composed. Every analysis of mineral waters in theirperfect state has demonstrated that they possess a fixed air, avolatile alkali, a volatile vitriolic acid, and the phlogiston. If, therefore, either of these essential qualities is evaporated orcorrupted, the water, being in a state of decomposition, must lose thevirtues of a medicinal chalybeate. 

It is only necessary to add a few further remarks, in order to shew inwhat particular complaints chalybeates, even in their most perfectstate, are pernicious. By this means many of the diseased will beguarded against a fatal error: and as the prejudice in favour of suchapplications is so universally prevalent, it is hoped a few pagesallotted to this subject will be deemed a most essential service to adeluded community. By removing such a pernicious partiality, thehealth, if not the lives of thousands, may be saved, to the greatenjoyment of themselves and their relatives. Dr. Knight says veryjustly, "that the explication of the manner of the operation ofchalybeate medicines in human bodies is grounded upon false principles, and not matters of fact; to wit, that all chalybeate preparations, in aliquid form, owe their medicinal efficacy to the metal dissolved, whether in an aqueous or spirituous menstruum, retaining its metallictexture. " To avoid entering into the whole detail of this interestingargument, it is only here stated in support of the above assertion, that as mineral waters are impregnated with a combination of sulphurs, salts, and earth, their virtues cannot be properly ascribed, as theyhave been, to the metals which they contain. It might be furtherproved, that iron cannot possibly enter the blood, retaining itsessential qualities; for metals in general, except mercury, aresuspended in liquids in _solutis principiis_, or principles disengaged, which are thus deprived of their metallic properties. Iron, enteringthe body as a volatile vitriolic acid, cannot act by its specificgravity as mercury does; it therefore acts _per accidens_, and not _perse_. But admitting that waters, however impregnated with iron, areefficacious in checking all diarrhoea and other profuse evacuations, by closing the relaxed vessels, and incrassating the fluids, yet asthey prove sometimes so astringent as to stop the natural secretions, the consequences are frequently cramps, dangerous convulsions, whichoften end in fevers, inflammations, and mortifications, theirindiscriminate use should be most cautiously avoided. Chalybeates, thuscontracting the least pervious glands, should not be taken in acuteinflammations, or in any complaints that are attended with a quick andstrong pulse, a plethora, or extravasation of humours. They are equallydangerous in all nervous contractions, or where the blood is got intothe arteriolę, or capillary vessels. Thus, instead of acting like thesanative tea, which softens, smoothes, and unbends the two constringedfibres, the vitriolic salts of this mineral water but more contract thefibrillę, by operating like so many wedges, which ultimately tear, rend, or divide the tender filaments. It must, however, be admittedthat mineral waters are very beneficial in cachexies, scurvies, jaundice, hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. Having paid thistribute to their virtues, it is evident that what is above statedrespecting their pernicious effects has been dictated by candour, andwith no illiberal disposition to deny their absolute virtues[3]. Thesefew remarks have only been made in order to warn the community againsta prevailing and indiscriminate use which might otherwise, in manycomplaints, prove at least fatal to their health, if not to theirexistence. And as the tea discovered by Dr. Solander possesses all thevirtues of the chalybeate, without its dangerous principles, it was animmediate duty not only to warn but direct the Public in their adoptionof an aliment so essential to their health, and consequently temporalhappiness. 

 [3] _Waters drank at their source are efficacious in many complaints that are not accompanied with inflammatory symptoms; but if they are drank after a long or short conveyance, their effects must be proportionably injurious instead of beneficial. _

PREPARATION. 

As the native and exotic herbs of this tea are dried in a pure air, without any artificial means of preparation to improve their colour orincrease their natural astringency, they must be free from thosedeleterious, corrosive, and violent contractive effects with which wehave observed the general and indiscriminate use of foreign teas andmineral waters are attended. In the first part of this Essay, it wasstated that foreign teas were dried upon iron, and thus produced thoseastringent effects we have seen to characterize chalybeate waters. Itis therefore evident, that the simple preparation of these salutaryherbs being free from what renders teas and mineral waters in manycases pernicious, must leave their qualities pure and unadulterated, according to the intent and principle of nature in their production. They are, therefore, found particularly free from those injuriousproperties which render green tea so destructive to emaciatedconstitutions. Instead of being, like the above foreign tea, hurtful tothose worn down by a long fever, or such as have weak and delicatestomachs, their qualities are in such complaints essentially nutritiousand restorative. That stimulating roughness, which foreign teas imbibefrom their iron preparation, is not to be found in the sanative teadiscovered by Dr. Solander; the latter is therefore very beneficialwhere the mucous coat of the bowels is very thin, or the ramificationof the nerves numerous, extensive, and exquisitely sensible ofimpression. The cholic, gripes, or painful prickings of the nervouscoat by the India teas, are allayed by the drinking of the sanativetea, from its tepid and lubricating nature not being perverted by anycorrosive preparation. To thin and meagre bodies, which are greatlyaffected by green and bohea teas, the above is a most restorativealiment. The atrophy and diabetes, so frequently caused by the foreignteas, are, from the herbs of Dr. Solander's tea possessing theirnatural nutritious qualities uncontaminated by metallic preparation, often cured by using it as a morning and evening beverage; and thedepression of spirits occasioned by green and bohea, and which inducesmany of its drinkers to take sal volatile, or spirits of hartshorn, isavoided by the sanative tea; for the latter is found one of thegreatest and most salutary exhilarators of the nervous system. And thusthose who drink it as a constant aliment, are saved from the dangersthat attend rendering the blood too thin by the use of the abovevolatile alkalies, or drams, which are too frequently taken to avoidthat lowness of spirits caused by the great, sudden, and violentcontraction of the nervous fibrillę. As the inconveniencies of theforeign teas arise from the metallic properties derived from theirpreparation, the advantages of the sanative tea are evidently seen toarise from the preparation being such as leaves every herb possessed ofits natural and essential quality. This clearly evincing thesuperiority of Dr. Solander's tea to every herbal beverage, it onlyremains to proceed to the two remaining enquiries respecting the modeof using and the effects of this salutary combination of vegetables. The next subject, therefore, of investigation is the

MANNER OF USING. 

As the time of drinking this tea is morning and evening, it isnecessary to enquire whether its qualities are such as are calculatedto suit the temporary necessities of nature at those periods. From whathas been observed respecting foreign teas, it is evident that theirproperties are diametrically opposite to those which nature at suchtimes requires. When the body is exhausted by insensible perspiration, the most requisite aliment is that which can equally restore the lossof the solids and the languid flow of the animal spirits. What is thentaken ought therefore to be neither too heavy for the state of theunbraced system; nor too volatile, to afford a sufficient quantity ofnutritive juices to the whole animal economy. Nor should the aliment beso stimulating as to disorder instead of re-establishing the equalizedmotion of the yet perturbed state of the animal spirits. What is thengiven should have the power of sedating the nervous fluids, while itdisseminates through the viscera the elements of nutrition. These beingthe requisite properties of what is taken as a breakfast, it remains toconsider whether those of the sanative tea are adequate to suchindispensible purposes. 

In the preceding part of this enquiry, it has been found that theprincipal qualities of this tea are moderately astringent, balsamic, and aromatic; it is therefore evident, that, from a combination ofthese eminent medical principles, this tea must operate as a sedator ofperturbation, a renovator of exhausted solids, and an exhilarator ofnervous depression. It may therefore be used as a morning beverage withthe greatest advantage, for the preservation and re-establishment ofhealth; for never were the qualities of any aliment so particularlyadapted to the necessities of the body at any stated period as those ofthe sanative tea are at the time of breakfast. Without loading theexhausted viscera, they afford it a sufficiency of balsamic andnutritive aliment; nor does the sanative tea, by sedating thefluttering spirits, destroy their vigour; but, on the contrary, bycalming their motion, they contribute more active energy by promotingtheir equalized progress; and thus is the animal economy restored tothe proper use and enjoyment of its functions. And in proportion as thespirits are restored to an equilibrium of motion and fluidity, therelaxed tone of the nerves is recovered, and the whole functions of manrendered capable of exercise and enjoyment. 

The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of thesanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider whatbenefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon. 

At this time the body is in a very different state of temperature fromthat of the morning. By the toil, care, study, or amusement of theformer part of the day, the solids are wasted, and the fluids in astate of ferment and evaporation. Added to this, the aliment which istaken at dinner time so exhausts the animal warmth, as to leave thewhole body in a state of refrigeration. What is therefore taken in thissituation should be neither relaxing, constipating, nor heating; itshould possess a genial warmth, a cordial assistant, and a restorativenutriment. The first should be such as to supply the deficiency ofwarmth which the body feels by the act of digestion, without inflamingthe blood, or too greatly increasing the pulse. The second, or cordialassistant, should rather increase the powers of the body than those ofthe heart; for the force of the heart may be increased to the detrimentof health. This is evident from a weakness of the body being theconsequence of the force of the heart being increased in aninflammatory fever. And with regard to what is taken in the afternoonrequiring a restorative nutriment, it is necessary that it should belight, pure, and wholesome, lest its solidity and heaviness shouldoppress the bowels at a time when their tone is relaxed by recentfatigue and digestion. These qualities being the most proper to producefresh animal spirits, are the most fit to be taken when a new accessionof them is necessary. It has been observed those are the most robustwhose serum resembles most the white of an egg. It has therefore beenmost rationally concluded, that the origin of the animal spirits isfrom aliments capable of being changed into a similar substance, but soattenuated by incalation as to concrete by fire. For this reason thegreatest support of the spirits is afforded by light and nourishingmeats and drinks, which in taste and smell are even agreeable toinfants. All cordials and aromatics are consequently the most properfor such purposes, and at such times, when heavier foods would impress, instead of recruiting, the exhausted solids and fluids. It is thereforeBoerhaave recommends such aromatics, for the reviving and recruitingthe animal spirits, as have the most pleasing taste and smell. Agreeably to this opinion, Dr. Solander employed his researches to forman afternoon beverage of such herbs as should possess all the abovecardiac and balsamic qualities. The use of the sanative tea betweendinner and supper operates as the most reviving and wholesome alimentthat can, at such a time, be possibly taken. An enquiry having beenmade into the nature, preparation, and manner of using the sanativetea, there only remains to conclude this Second Part of the Essay withthe consideration of its

EFFECTS. 

From the view that has been taken of the nature, preparation, andmanner of using, the salutary effects are most clearly and easily to beascertained. As the basis of this tea is the combined principle of themost balsamic oils, nutritious salts, and animating sulphurs, which thevegetable world produces, their effects must be proportionablysalutary. And as their combination is such as to correct the perniciousqualities of each other, their conjoint effect must be the mostwholesome that can possibly be administered for the health of humannature. As every simple, however specific in certain cases, possessesqualities that are pernicious in other respects, it has been the firstprinciple of physical enquiry not only to find the basis of a medicine, but to form compounds or ingredients that corrected the injurioustendency of each other. With this scientific principle Dr. Solanderhaving composed his sanative tea, has rendered it the most generalspecific in its effects of any medicinal aliment. 

This tea affording a compound oil, which is formed of the most aromaticvegetables the earth affords, it is no wonder its effects, like honey, should approach so near a general specific. The invaluable oils, uniting with the sulphurs of the sanative tea, recruit, soften, andlubricate the juices, diminish the too great elasticity, dryness, andcrispness of the nervous fibres, and afford the exhausted liquids freshsupplies. Their effects are consequently exceedingly restorative in allcases, where the force of the fibres and the vessels are too strong, the circulation too rapid, and the blood too attenuated or diminished;as it prevents the too quick action of the solids, and the too rapidmotion of the blood, the body is nourished, and the mind prepared forthe refreshment of sleep when the approach of night invites to repose. In spitting of blood its effects are particularly beneficial. The oilbeing easily detached from the earth of the plant is, in such cases, exceedingly nutritive, and, by its checking the stimulation, andsheathing the acrimony of the humours, the blood is replenished withthe most healing and balsamic virtues. 

In pleurisies, ulcers, and abscesses of the lungs, hectic fevers, drycoughs, night sweats, and difficulty of breathing, the balsamic oil andsulphur of this tea is most salutary. 

The dropsical, phlegmatic, corpulent, cathetic, and all such as are intheir stamina relaxed, will find the greatest relief in its constantuse; and to those who are emaciated, either from hereditary or acquireddisease, it is particularly beneficial. 

In seasons when experience informs us that the blood requires cleansingand attenuating, this tea will be of considerable service to thehealthy as well as the diseased. By these means the constitution willbe preserved and restored from all those chronic and acute afflictions, which are the consequences of acrimonious humours and foulness ofblood. 

As this tea produces the effects of cleansing the stomach, promotingdigestion, diluting the chyle, and invigorating the whole viscera, itshould be constantly drank by those who live freely. 

Unlike most medicinal applications, this tea requires no previouspreparation of the body. Such are its nature and progression ofeffects, that it first renders the body in a state suitable to receivesucceeding benefits; nor is it dangerous, like mineral waters, to whichpersons afflicted with nervous complaints generally resort. Personssuffering acute or inflammatory diseases, or who have their vessels toogreatly constringed, need not be under the apprehensions of sufferingscirrhuses, or even death, which is the confluence of drinking, in suchcases, mineral waters; but, on the contrary, they may expect toreceive, from the use of the sanative tea, the most beneficial effects, not only in the above, but also in the gout and rheumatism, from itsmoderate use producing a gentle perspiration. 

To account for the variety of salutary effects that this valuablediscovery produces, we shall now proceed to consider its operation as amedicine and an aliment, which will afford the most convincing andconclusive arguments that can be possibly adduced in favour of itssanative qualities. 

To consider its medicinal properties or effects, it is necessary tostate in what manner it acts first upon the solids, next upon thefluids, and lastly, how it operates upon both together; for on thesethree principles the power and quality of a medicine solely depend. Inacting upon the solids, it either alters their texture and cohesion, or, by diluting the canals, change the figure of the sides. But amedicine acting upon fluids only either alters their properties, orbrings them out of the body. All medicines, however, act as well uponthe solids as the fluids; for the latter can scarcely be alteredwithout in some degree affecting the former. 

As all medicines derive the greatest qualities from their filling, evacuating, or altering the smallest parts, the sanative tea possessesthe most restorative properties from its action upon the smallestnervous vessels, and not in the arteries, veins, glands, lymphatic andadipose vessels. Thus, as all augmentation and accretion of the greaterdepend on the extension of the smallest lateral vessels, which arenervous tubuli, the nutrition and restitution of what is wasted must beconsiderably derived from the constant use of this beverage morning andevening. From this the medicinal effects of the tea upon the solids arefound to be consistent with the first of physical principles; for thenutrition of the solids, which is made by the application of any partto the place of a wasted part, is always effected in the smallestcanals, of which the greater consist. 

And as every salutary change of the fluids is made in the smallestvessels, the sanative tea possessing the power of conveying nutritioninto the most minute channels of the body, the liquids must derive fromit the greatest renovation. 

From this combined effect upon the solids and liquids, the strength ofthe greater vessels is increased, and thus is the whole aggregate bodyinvigorated; for every artery derives its energy from its sides, whichare composed of the minutest vessels. To enter into a complete detailof its medicinal principles, would require a volume itself; we musttherefore avoid any further enquiry of its effects as a physicalremedy, in order to leave a few lines for its consideration as analiment. 

The qualities of an aliment chiefly depend on their nature affordingthat nourishment which is proper to the time of taking and the state ofthe body. Indeed, without their possessing these relative properties, either meats or drinks are injurious instead of beneficial. For thisreason physical necessity, more than tyrant custom, has caused athinner aliment to be taken in the morning and evening than what formsthe meals of dinner and supper. This necessity arises from the stateof the body being in the morning just recovering its spirits from acomparative state of relaxation and imbecility, and in the afternoonfrom the stomach being enfeebled by recent digestion. That the body, immediately after sleep, is in a relaxed state, may be perceived by theperturbation the spirits experience from any surprise or violent actioninstantly succeeding. Fits and faintings have frequently been theconsequence of persons of quick sensibilities being wakened. In such astate of relative debility, gross and solid food must oppress thespirits, and thus render the body incapable of deriving nourishmentfrom such an untimely aliment. But if what is taken is light, pure, andapt for producing chyle, the stomach being capable of digesting it, must turn it to the most wholesome nutrition. To attain this end, foreign teas, from their lightness, have been universally adopted; but, as we have found, from their nature, how ill adapted they are to begiven when the nerves are already too weak to bear their violentastringency, such should be used as are possessed of the mostnutrition, without a tendency to irritate the relaxed fibrillę. 

When the stomach is enfeebled by recent digestion in the afternoon, totake then another meal of solid aliment must evidently tend to depressthe digestive powers, and thus prevent the body from having thatnourishment it might receive from a lighter aliment. 

The sanative tea being found, from the preceding enquiries, to possessthe most active, subtle, penetrating, and balsamic compound oils, salts, and sulphurs, which pervade, without irritation, the minutestcanals, must afford that species of aliment which the body in a morningand afternoon requires. While it attenuates, it restores the tone andsubstance of the juices, strengthens the solids, invigorates everynatural function, and thus affords the means of enjoying all thecomfort that a healthy body and a happy mind can bestow. 

THE END. 

DR. SOLANDER'sSANATIVE ENGLISHTEA. 

UNIVERSALLY APPROVED AND RECOMMENDEDBY THE MOSTEMINENT PHYSICIANS, IN PREFERENCE TO FOREIGN TEA, As the most Pleasing and POWERFUL RESTORATIVE, IN ALLNERVOUS DISORDERS, HITHERTO DISCOVERED. 

Our first aliment at breakfast, being designed to recruit the waste ofthe body from the night's insensible perspiration; an inquiry isimportant, whether INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur inpronouncing a species of Slow Poison, that unnerves and wears thesubstance of the solids, is adequate to such a purpose--If it benot--the inquiry is further necessary to find out a proper substitute. If an Apozem PROFESSIONALLY approved and recommended for its nutritivequalities, as a general aliment, has claim to public attention, certainly Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, so sanctioned, is the most proper morningand afternoon's beverage. 

Prepared for the Proprietor by an eminent Botanist. 

Sold Wholesale and Retail by the Proprietor's Agent, Mr. T. GOLDING, athis Warehouse for Patent Medicines, No. 42, Cornhill, London; andRetail by Mr. F. NEWBERY, No. 45, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mess. BAILEY'S, Cockspur-street; Mr. W. BACON, No. 150, Oxford-street; Mr. OVERTON, No. 47, New Bond-street; and by Mr. J. FULLER, Covent-Garden, near the Hummums. Also, by the Venders of Patent Medicines in everyCity and Town, in England, Ireland and Scotland. 

Sold in Packets at 2s. 9d. And in Cannisters at 10s. 6d. Each, Dutyincluded. Liberal Allowance for Exportation, to Country Venders and toSchools. 

The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, being gathered and dried with peculiar attention, to the preserving oftheir sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than manysimilar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have thoseQualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. 

A Packet of this Tea at 2s. 9d. Is sufficient to Breakfast one Person aMonth. 

DIRECTIONFOR MAKINGDR. SOLANDER's TEA. 

Two or three tea-spoonfuls of this Tea being put into a tea-pot, or acovered bason, pour boiling water upon it, and let it remain a shorttime in a state of infusion. --After using milk and sugar agreeably tothe taste, drink it moderately warm. A few tea-cups full are sufficientfor breakfast, tea in the afternoon, or any other time a person maythink proper. 

 * * * * *

 The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose this Tea, being gathered and dried with peculiar attention to the preserving their Sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than many similar Preparations, which, by being reduced to Powder, must have those qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. 

 * * * * *

A CAUTION. 

The high estimation in which Dr. Solander's Tea is held, by the firstcircles of fashion, as a general beverage--the many cures it haseffected--and the pleasantness of its flavor having induced severalunprincipled persons to prepare and vend a base and spuriouspreparation under a similar title; the Proprietor, in justice to theknown efficacy of this Tea, and to secure his property from furtherdepredations, has thought proper to have an engraved copper-plateaffixed to the canisters and packets of the genuine and originalpreparation of Dr. Solander's Sanative English Tea. This plate beingentered at Stationer's Hall as the Act directs, Aug. 20, 1791, willsubject such persons as imitate the same to a consequent prosecution. The Public are therefore cautioned from purchasing any article but whatis distinguished by the said plate, and to observe thereon the wordsspecified as above, of its being entered according to Act ofParliament. 

DR. SOLANDER's TEA. 

This CELEBRATED TEA is peculiarly efficacious in most inward wasting, loss of Appetite, Hysterical Disorders and Indigestion, depression ofSpirits, trembling or shaking of the Hands or Limbs, obstinate Coughs, Shortness of Breath, and Consumptive Habits; it purifies the Blood, eases the most violent pains of the Head and Stomach, and is awonderful Assuager of the excruciating pains of the Gout andRheumatism, by promoting gentle Perspiration. By the NOBILITY andGENTRY this Tea is much admired as a fashionable BREAKFAST; beingpleasant to the taste and smell, gently astringing the fibres of thestomach, and giving them that proper tensity, which is requisite to agood digestion; and nothing can be better adapted to help and nourishthe Constitution after late hours, or making too free with wine. 

This Sanative Tea is highly esteemed in the East and West Indies, beingunlike INDIA TEA, which the Faculty unanimously concur in pronouncing aspecies of Slow Poison that unnerves and wears the substance of thesolids; on the contrary, this nourishes and invigorates the NervousSystem, acts as a GENERAL RESTORATIVE CORDIAL, upon debilitatedConstitutions, and is a sovereign remedy in Bilious Complaintscontracted in hot climates. 

In the Measles and Small Pox, nothing need be given but a plenty ofthis Tea; drank warm at Night it promotes refreshing rest, and, assuch, is a regular afternoon's beverage with many aged and infirmPersons. Being of peculiar service to children, and such who areweakly, many Parents, and others, having the care and education ofFemales, exclude the use of any other than this salubrious Tea. 

By the Studious and Sedentary, this CELEBRATED TEA is justly consideredas a MENTAL PANACEA, from its sovereign efficacy in removing complaintsof the head, invigorating the mind, improving the memory, andenlivening the imagination. 

The Proofs of Efficacy of Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, being so numerous, wouldfar exceed the limitation of a Pamphlet; the Public are thereforerequired to accept the following abridged List of Cures as Specimens:

CASE I. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

HAVING long languished under a severe depression of spirits, an almostcontinual cough, and to all appearance, a confirmed consumption, beingafflicted with violent pains in my head and breast, together with atotal lassitude of body and limbs. --I was so weak and emaciated thatall my friends and acquaintance apprehended, I could not survive manyWeeks. In that unhappy condition, an eminent Physician recommended meto your SANATIVE ENGLISH TEA, in the use of which I persevered forseveral weeks, with the happiest effect, and am now perfectly cured bythat salutary and invaluable Medicine. Happy in the opportunity ofcontributing my endeavours to alleviate the distresses of humanity, Ihereby authorise you to publish my case, with my earnest recommendationof your Sanative Tea, to all persons afflicted with nervous and otherconsumptive disorders, and am, Sir, your humble servant, NICHOLAS SANDYS. 

N. B. My near relation SAMUEL SANDYS, Esq. No. 61, Berner-street, and many of my friends, will testify to the truth of the above. 

CASE II. 

Mrs. JONES, of Hammersmith, was for several years afflicted with abilious and nervous complaint, being recommended by a friend, who (inan obstinate cough attended with spitting of blood) had experienced thepeculiar efficacy of Dr. Solander's Tea, was at last persuaded to maketrial of it, when in a few months she was perfectly restored to healthand spirits, by the use of this celebrated Tea. 

CASE III. 

Mr. BRYANT, No. 7, King-street, Bethnal-green, for twenty years wasviolently afflicted with a nervous disorder, but by the constantdrinking the Sanative English Tea is now enjoying a good state ofhealth. 

CASE IV. 

CAPT. R. SMITH, of Liverpool, after a severe nervous fever, was verymuch afflicted with violent Pains in his breast, attended with acontinual cough and excruciating head-ache, which entirely deprived himof rest, and reduced him to a mere skeleton; being persuaded to drinkDr. Solander's tea, was recovered to health and strength by thatsalubrious panacea. 

CASE V. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

FOR some Years past I had been violently afflicted with a slow nervousfever attended by a continual head-ache, a total loss of appetite, anda very bad digestion, by which I was reduced to a deplorable state oflanguor and dejection of spirits. After being attended by many Doctors, and taking a variety of Medicines, my husband, Mr. JOHN TOD, hearingfrom several persons with whom he was acquainted, of the wonderfuleffects your excellent Tea had done in nervous disorders, in variousFamilies with whom, in his extensive acquaintance, he was well known, urged me much to drink the Tea; which I began in the Morning forbreakfast, and in a few days I found myself much better, and was muchpleased with so grateful a remedy. I continued it for some time; and Ido assure you I am now entirely recovered, and enjoy a perfect state ofhealth, without any medical assistance whatever. I am thereforeprompted to send you this, in gratitude for the benefit I havereceived, requesting you will make what use of it you think proper, asit may be of the same benefit to others. 

I am, Sir, your very humble servant, FRANCES TOD. Rum and Brandy Warehouse, No. 8, Little Carter-lane, Doctor's Commons, Feb. 20, 1790

CASE VI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

WHEN I arrived in England some time ago, I was distressed with a severedepression of the spirits, a very violent cough, and as all my friendsthought in a declining consumptive habit of body; my brother hearingthe efficacy of your Sanative Tea much praised, bought me a cannister, and begged I would use it according to the directions given with it, which I did, and had a tea-pot of it standing at my bed-side everynight, (for as I was very restless and very feverish) drinking it atintervals, and likewise in the morning; before it was all out I wasentirely recovered, and have at this time good spirits, good appetite, and good health. I therefore recommend it much. I am, Sir, &c. 

MARY MULLARKY. No. 11, York-street, London-road, Sept. 29, 1792

CASE VII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S _Sanative Tea_. 

A near relation of mine being afflicted with a violent nervousdisorder, owing to a fright which happened to her in her lying-in, somuch so, as nearly to deprive her of reason; her intellects were forsome time, very much impaired, and she was reduced to a state ofdespondency; she was attended by many eminent physicians, and took manyof her apothecary's draughts, &c. But without success, until she waspersuaded to try your Sanative Tea, by several of her acquaintances, who had proved its good qualities, which she made use of six weeks, andin which time she found herself perfectly recovered from such alarmingdisorder. In justice to so valuable and elegant a medicine, I cannotomit giving you this information, that it may be published for thebenefit of the community at large, being fully persuaded of itsexcellent qualities. I am, Sir, &c. 

RICHARD ANDREWS. No. 20, Cross-street, Surry, Oct. 16, 1792. 

CASE VIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

FOR a long time I was frequently afflicted with a nervous disorder inmy head and stomach, was exceedingly ill and low spirited, and oftenconfined to my bed; I had a variety of things prescribed for me bygentlemen of the faculty, but without effect, my disorder stillreturning; till your Sanative Tea was recommended to me: I resolved totry it, and it so much pleased me in taste and satisfaction ofdrinking, that I made it my constant morning and evening Tea, andcontinued it for some time, and quickly found my health better, myspirits good, and have now entirely got rid, by its means, of all myillness, and am in good health; therefore I am glad to send thisinformation, in justice to the virtues of the Sanative Tea, recommending it to every one who may be afflicted with any suchdreadful complaints I laboured under. I remain, Sir, your humbleservant, MARY SMYTH, Mistress of the School. Blackfriars School, near Ludgate-Hill, Nov. 16, 1792. 

CASE IX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. 

ABOUT twelve months ago, my daughter was afflicted with violent painsin her stomach, occasioned as was supposed, by drinking strong greentea for breakfast, without eating therewith--I had the assistance ofseveral gentlemen of the faculty, but to no purpose; as her complaintgrew worse almost daily; and it was the general opinion that she was ina decline. Anxious for the safety of my child, I tried many advertisedmedicines without success; till seeing in the County Chronicle the manycures performed by your Sanative Tea, I wrote to a Friend in London toprocure me some of it; he readily acquiesced, and sent me a few packetsof the Tea as a present: In a short time her complaint was much abated, and continuing the use of it a few weeks, she was restored to perfecthealth:--in justice to the merits of your Tea, you have my consent tomake whatever use you please of this token of acknowledgement. Iremain, Sir, your obliged humble servant, FRED. BLAKELEY. Barsford, near Needham, Suffolk, March 10, 1793. 

CASE X. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. 

HAVING been afflicted with obstructions, attended with a continualcough and violent pains in my head and breast--I applied to manyphysicians and apothecaries, without finding relief, till I drank yourSanative Tea, which has entirely cured me. I think it my duty to sendyou this acknowledgement, in justice to you and the Public at large. Iam, Sir, &c. 

ANN ROYAL. No. 63, St. John street, near the Green-Walk, Christ-church, Surry, March 18, 1793. 

CASE XI. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

BEING much afflicted with a slow fever, very nervous, and much subjectto fits, a violent oppression at my stomach, and total loss ofappetite; I was continually taking physic of various descriptions, butfound no relief. Having heard your Sanative Tea highly praised, Iresolved to try it, and found myself in a short time much better. Ihave continued drinking it ever since, and at present enjoy so perfecta state of health, that I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude forthe benefit I have experienced. I therefore send you this, recommendingit much to every person so afflicted with illness as I was, giving youfull liberty to make this known as you may think proper. I am, &c. 

CATHARINE CLOVER. Ormond-Place, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, March 24, 1793. 

CASE XII. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH SANATIVE TEA. 

HAVING had recourse to several medicines and prescriptions, forinternal weakness and indigestion, without the desired effect, I wasadvised to make trial of your Sanative Tea, as a medicine. Iaccordingly furnished myself with two parcels, and found it veryagreeable and pleasant; and in a short time I had the satisfaction offeeling the good effects of this pleasing and salutary medicine; and toconfirm the services received from it, I am determined, for the future, to drink it instead of foreign teas, because I think it more gratefulthan any thing yet presented to the public as a stomatic; therefore injustice to your valuable discovery for the public good, you are welcometo communicate this information to the world at large; with thesincerest wishes for the general use of your excellent Tea. I am, Sir, &c. 

RICHARD EDWARDS. No. 37, Baldwin's-gardens, Holborn, June 13, 1793

CASE XIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

BEING very much afflicted with a violent head-ache for a great manyyears, I some time ago heard a great praise of the Sanative Tea; Itried it and thought it did me good, and by continuing the use of it, it has entirely taken away my old head-ache, and I find myself muchbetter, and am now quite well. Indeed it has done me more good than Icould expect, as the head-ache is particularly our family complaint. Ilikewise recommended it to my brother, James Robertson, of Bradfield, Essex, and it has had the same good effects on him. Also my sister, Mrs. Shibley, of Battle-bridge, has experienced its salutary effects;therefore in justice to so excellent a thing, I send you this, hopingothers troubled with a constitutional head-ache, will make use of it. Iam, Sir, your obedient servant, RATCLIFF ROBERTSON. No. 10, Great Shire-lane, Temple-bar, June 26, 1793

CASE XIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

ABOUT two years ago, I was attacked with a nervous disorder in my head, which violently afflicted my whole frame. I had no rest, andoftentimes, for want of sleep, at intervals, lost my senses--being muchtroubled with frights and startings, the disorder increased, till mostof my friends expected I should soon die. I took many things withoutbenefit, till an acquaintance recommended me to use the Sanative Tea. Ibegan to drink it in the night, being always very thirsty; I thought intwo or three nights that I was easier; I therefore continued it, andnot only drank it in the night, but used it constantly, and left offdrinking India tea. I gradually got better, and am now quite recovered, having got rid of head-ache, startings, &c. I therefore wish torecommend it for its excellence to all my sex; and beg you will acceptof this, hoping it may be useful. 

I am, Sir, your humble servant, MARY SHAW. No. 24, Cross-street, St. George's-Fields, July 10, 1793. 

CASE XV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea_. 

INDUCED by a friend of mine to make use of your Tea, as an excellentmedicine for the loss of appetite, bad digestion, and great relaxationof the whole frame, with which I had been afflicted a long time, I havefound more relief from it, than from any other medicine I have yet hadrecourse to, and am convinced it has qualities superior to any thing ofthe kind; and considering it as worthy of public attention, I give youmy approbation of the services it has done me. I am, your humbleservant, JOHN MIDDLETON, Pencil-maker. No. 11, Turnagain-lane, Snow-hill, July 19, 1793. 

CASE XVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER's TEA. 

HEARING of the virtues of your Tea, in nervous complaints andindigestions, and being among my friends much persuaded to try it, Isoon found, by drinking it for breakfast, the good effects arising fromit; your Sanative Tea having operated entirely to my wish, from itspleasing as well as its medicinal qualities. I continued to use it, atleast once a day, and as a means of disclosing its virtues shallcontinue to recommend it in the circle of my acquaintance. Your humbleservant, PETER CAPPER. No. 14, Lambeth-walk, Aug. 8, 1793. 

CASE XVII. _To the Proprietor of the English Sanative_ TEA. 

A Servant of mine having been in a continual state of pain, from whatthe doctors deemed a rheumatic complaint, for the space of eightmonths, and appearing to be of a consumptive habit of body, attendedwith a total depression of spirits, a perpetual cough, and extremeweakness of limbs; which threatened her dissolution. Hearing frequentlyof the surprising efficacy of your Sanative Tea, I bought some for her, and the happy effects it has produced, urges me strongly to speak inits great praise; therefore, I send you this, hoping her case may be ofservice to make the virtues of your Sanative Tea, universally known. 

I am, SIR, &c. 

JOSEPH SWALLOW. No. 3, Clarence-place, St. George's, Southwark, Aug. 20, 1793. 

CASE XVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

BEING afflicted with a nervous head-ache, and trembling of the hands, lowness of spirits, and bad appetite, a friend of mine wished very muchI would drink the Sanative English Tea; which upon drinking, instead ofother Tea for breakfast, I found myself much better, and am now quitewell; my hands being perfectly steady, which is of great advantage tome, I being a writing stationer; besides my appetite is good, and Ifeel myself in every respect so well, that I am persuaded I do good tothe community, in begging you will make this publicly known. Yours, &c. 

J. CLARKENo. 16, Newcastle-court, Butcher-row, Temple-bar, Sept. 6, 1793. 

CASE XIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S SANATIVE TEA. 

FOR many years I had been violently afflicted with acute painsin my head, a nervous disorder, and lowness of spirits, and took manymedicines from apothecaries, but found no benefit; till lately a friendspeaking very much in praise of the Sanative Tea; it induced me todrink it, instead of other tea; and I have found it so happily relievedme, that I am induced to send you this, to recommend it for suchcomplaints, to all nervous people. I am, &c. 

ROSANNAH WYNNE. No. 62, South Audley-street, Grosvenor-square, Sept. 10, 1793. 

CASE XX. _To the Proprietor of the. _ SANATIVE TEA. 

I cannot with-hold my praise of your Sanative Tea, having received somuch benefit by its efficacy; for having been a long time oppressedwith a severe head-ache, and low spirits, and little or no appetite, Iwas recommended to drink your tea, which, to my great surprise, verysoon restored me to health; I therefore wish this to be made public forthe good of others. 

ALICE MASON. No. 18, Upper ground, Blackfriars-Bridge, Sept. 18, 1793. 

CASE XXI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

Mrs. HAYDEN being much affected with an oppression at her stomach, verylow spirits, and other complaints attending a nervous disorder, for along time past, after taking various prescriptions of her doctors, without effect, she was persuaded to try your Sanative Tea, whichproved most salutary, and she is now perfectly restored to health; andtakes this method to recommend it to Ladies troubled with the samecomplaints. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT HAYDEN, Sadler. Knightsbridge, Sept. 19, 1793. 

CASE XXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. 

I was a considerable time much afflicted with a nervous fever anddepression of spirits, till hearing of the efficacy of your SanativeTea, in similar complaints, induced me to make trial of it--by which, in a few weeks, I was restored to perfect health. I am, SIR, yourhumble servant, R. JONES. Aldersgate-street, Nov. 27, 1793. 

CASE XXIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

MY mother having been afflicted, for some time past, with a nervouscomplaint and a bad head-ache, she took several medicines withouteffect; till a lady of her acquaintance, recommended to her yourSanative Tea, and advised her to drink it, instead of green or boheatea; which advice she followed; and as it relieved her of thosecomplaints, I send you this, in order that the good qualities of thisTea may be known to those afflicted with similar complaints. I am, SIR, Your obedient servant, GEORGE QUIN, Hydrometer-maker. No. 12, London-road, Sept. 19, 1793. 

CASE XXIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

SOME time ago being recommended to drink your Sanative Tea for atroublesome head-ache, and a nervous disorder in my stomach, I am sopleased with its good qualities, and efficacy, in removing thosecomplaints, that I am induced to recommend it as a restorative in suchcases. 

I am, &c. 

WM. FILBY. No. 3, Pilgrim-street, Ludgate-hill, Oct. 1, 1793. 

CASE XXV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

MY business obliging me for many years to be concerned in spirituousliquors, and under the unavoidable necessity of drinking too much, Ihave suffered greatly from the ill effects of the same; tillrecommended to drink your Sanative Tea, which after a little time didme so much good, that I am induced to wish that every Person woulddrink the Tea who have suffered the same infirmities from the toofrequent use of spirituous liquors. I therefore send you this, in hopesothers may be benefited as I have been. I am, SIR, &c. 

JOSEPH WELLS. Guy Earl of Warwick, Upper Ground, Blackfriars-road, Oct. 7, 1793. 

CASE XXVI. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

ABOUT six weeks ago, I was attacked with a violent sore throat, andfever, being attended by my apothecary, and taking a number ofmedicines which he sent me, a physician was advised to be called in, but nothing they prescribed did me any good, and the doctor gave me upas entirely lost. I was then pressed by a relation to drink a quantityof the Sanative Tea, which I immediately did, and continued thro' thenight; I found, after a long sleep, that I was much better: I thereforecontinued it for a day or two afterwards, and I was still better andbetter; and in the space of three weeks, I found myself restored toperfect health. I therefore recommend it strongly to all who may beattacked in the same manner, and am most assuredly convinced that theSanative Tea contains many efficacious and excellent properties, fromthe great benefit I have so astonishingly experienced by it. I am, SIR, &c. 

SAMUEL ROBINSON. No. 15, Clifford's-Inn, Oct. 8, 1793. 

CASE XXVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. 

YOUR Sanative Tea being recommended to me for a nervous disorder and aconsumptive habit of body, with which I was afflicted a considerabletime, I accordingly gave it a trial, and found myself in a short timeso much better, that I continued to drink it regularly, and am now inexceeding good health. In gratitude to so excellent a remedy, I sendyou this acknowledgement, and am, SIR, your humble servant, JOHN LAMB. Clifford's-Inn, Oct. 12, 1793. 

CASE XXVIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. 

FOR some years past, I have been afflicted with a nervous disorder, attended with a bad head-ache, and violent spasms in the stomach. I wasfor a long time attended by an apothecary, and took much medicine, tilltaking to drink the Sanative Tea, which I had heard was sold inCornhill, it did me much good, and so pleased me in taste, that Icontinued the use of it, and am now quite well. You may as you thinkfit, make use of this my poor praise. 

I am, SIR, your humble servant, JOHN WANNOCK. No. 2, Fountain-court, Cateaton-street, Oct. 14, 1793. 

CASE XXIX. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English_ TEA. 

I was suddenly seized with a violent fever, and attended by aphysician; but grew worse. My friends, on enquiry the next day, foundme very bad; and so I remained the whole of that night; in the morninga neighboring gentlewoman stepped in, made me some of your SanativeTea; which as she afterwards informed me, I drank greedily, and askedfor more, which was given me. I then fell into a pleasing sleep, and onwaking found myself so refreshed and well, that I am determined todrink it constantly. In gratitude for the benefit I have experiencedfrom your Tea, you may depend upon my recommendation and custom. 

I am, SIR, your most humble servant, GEORGE BROWN. White Lion-street, Pentonville, Islington, Oct. 16, 1793. 

CASE XXX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

BEING afflicted with a violent head-ache, a considerable time, tillhearing of the Sanative Tea having cured many persons of thatcomplaint, I was induced to make trial of it, and accordingly sent forsome, which I liked so well, that I continued to drink it every morningfor breakfast; and I declare, since drinking that Tea and leaving offgreen tea, I have been entirely freed from my former complaint--Iftherefore this my acknowledgement of its efficacy should induce any ofmy sex, who are so liable to that, so general a disorder, I don't doubtof its doing them as much service as I have experienced. 

I am, SIR, your humble servant, E. MACKRILL. No. 1, Basing-lane, Nov. 21, 1793. 

CASE XXXI. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea. _

IT is with the utmost pleasure I inform you, that my sister who haslingered these eight months under a decline of the most alarming kind, is now perfectly restored to health by drinking frequently andregularly your Sanative English Tea. 

I am, SIR, your respectful servant, T. I. UPTON, Watch-maker. No. 8, Bell-yard, Temple-bar. Dec. 15, 1793. 

CASE XXXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea. _

IT is the duty of every individual member of society, whose health maybe renovated by the use of any medicine, freely to communicate itsefficacy for the public good, in order that it may be better-known anddisseminated amongst his fellow-creatures. --Being from the nature of myprofession (my inclination perhaps also conducing that way) necessarilyaccustomed to a sedentary life, I became the unhappy victim of allthose horrible maladies incident to a debility of the nervous system, augmented by inattention to myself, accompanied with a depression ofspirits, verging to an almost absolute despondency. A gentleman, whosegoodness and philanthropy eminently characterise him, recommended to meDr. Solander's Tea, and happily by the use of it I have experienced themost unspeakable relief, and my health is completely re-established, mynerves have assumed their natural tone, and my animal spirits thathilarity they formerly possessed. With all the fervor of gratitude forthe salutary effects of this incomparable Tea, I sincerely recommendits use to those who may be afflicted in the same way. I am, SIR, &c. 

BUTLER FITZGERALD. Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery. Dec. 27, 1793. 

CASE XXXIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative_ TEA. 

I was for some time supposed to be in a decline, and medicine had noeffect, till seeing an advertisement of a cure, performed by yourSanative Tea, in a case similar to my own, I made trial of it, andreceived so much benefit from its use, that I take this opportunity toacknowledge its merit in having restored me to perfect health. 

I am, SIR, your humble servant, BENJAMIN BAKER. Clifford's Inn Coffee-house, Jan. 3, 1794. 

CASE XXXIV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea. _

TWO of my children being very ill, I was recommended to try Dr. Solander's Tea, which in a short time did them so much good, that I aminduced to send you this, believing it to be a most excellent remedyfor many disorders. I am, SIR, your most obedient servant, E. ALLEN. No. 13, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, Feb. 2, 1794. 

CASE XXXV. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English Tea. _

HAVING been for a long time troubled with a bad cough, violent cold, apoor appetite, and in a very low nervous way; I took much physic, butfound no relief; till several of my acquaintance speaking greatly inpraise of the Sanative Tea, and recommending it particularly, I drankit for some time, and finding it do me so much good, I continued theuse of it, and am now perfectly restored to health. I therefore sendyou this acknowledgment of its efficacy. 

I am, SIR, your most obedient servant, JOHN WHEELER. No. 7, Lamb's Conduit-passage, Red Lion-square, Feb. 18, 1794. 

CASE XXXVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

ONE of my daughters being lately very ill with an intermittinghead-ache, a nervous fever, and seemingly in a decline, at theparticular desire of a friend, I was induced to buy some of theSanative Tea, which she continued to drink for some time, and I amhappy in this opportunity to acknowledge that it has perfectlyrecovered her. 

I am, SIR, your obliged humble servant, JAMES GENT. No. 14, Watling-street, May 2, 1794. 

CASE XXXVII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative English_ TEA. 

BEING much afflicted with violent pains in my stomach and bowels, attended with a loss of appetite, I was recommended to try your EnglishTea, which, by the time I had taken three packets, restored me toperfect health. I therefore send you this as a testimony of itsvirtues. 

And am, Sir, your humble servant, W. JORDAN. The Corner of Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, May 8, 1794. 

CASE XXXVIII. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea. _

I was a long time afflicted with a nervous disorder, attended with suchlowness of spirits, that at times rendered me incapable of business--Bythe advice of a friend I made trial of your Tea, which entirely removedmy complaint, and I now enjoy a good state of health. 

I remain, SIR, your humble servant, WM. FAIRCLOTH. No. 50, Little Russell-street, near Duke-street, Bloomsbury, May 12, 1794. 

CASE XXXIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

HAVING been a considerable time afflicted with a nervous head-ache, attended with violent pains in my stomach, for which I took severalmedicines without experiencing any beneficial effect; being tired ofsuch, I bought some of your Sanative Tea, which by using a short time, I experienced such a material change in my complaint, as induced me tocontinue it, and am now free from my former pains and nervousaffections. 

I remain Sir, your obedient servant, RICHARD LOVEDAY. No. 105, Bermondsey-street, May 20, 1794. 

CASE XL. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative_ TEA. 

MY wife being much afflicted with a nervous complaint, a bad appetite, and depression of spirits, she was recommended to drink the EnglishTea, which in a short time restored her to health--I therefore send youthis acknowledgment of its merit. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. CLARKE. No. 9, Ward's Place, Islington, June 18, 1974. 

CASE XLI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

HAVING heard your Sanative Tea spoke of with much praise, and it beingrecommended to me by a friend who had experienced its efficacy ineruptions of the skin--I was induced to make trial of it to my daughterwho had frequently been troubled with a similar complaint, and am happyto inform you, that she has received much benefit from its use, andmake no doubt that in a short time it will have the desired effect solong wished for. 

And am, Sir, your humble servant, JOHN ROBERTS. Prospect-Place, Newington, Surry, June 30, 1794. 

CASE XLII. _To the Proprietor of the English Tea. _

BEING in the Liquor Trade and liable to live irregular, I contracted aviolent pain and trembling of my limbs, which often rendered meincapable of attending to business. By taking your Tea at night and forbreakfast, it has entirely removed my complaint. I therefore send youthis as a testimony of its good qualities. I remain, SIR, &c. 

JAMES RAVERTY. No. 12, Cross-street, Hatton-Garden, July 28, 1794. 

CASE XLIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea. _

I was a considerable time afflicted with a consumptive cough and inwardwasting which induced me to have recourse to many gentlemen of thefaculty, without receiving any benefit from their advice or medicine. At last I was recommended to try your Sanative Tea, and am happy toinform you, that a few packets of it entirely removed my cough, and atpresent find myself in as good a state of health as ever I enjoyed. 

I am, SIR, &c. 

THOMAS GALLANT. No. 10, Peter-lane, West Smithfield, Aug. 4, 1794. 

CASE XLIV. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

I have been for ten years very much afflicted with a rheumatic gout forwhich I have taken much medicine without being relieved; fortunately, Iwas advised last March to try Dr. Solander's Tea; the first two packetsI took, greatly eased my pains; and the three next parcels cured me. Since the pains not returning, you have my authority to make thispublic for the good of society. I remain, SIR, &c. 

JAMES JOHNSTON. Lambeth-Butts, 12th August, 1794. 

CASE XLV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ SANATIVE TEA. 

HAVING for a long time suffered greatly with a severe biliouscomplaint, I was persuaded to make trial of your Sanative Tea, fromwhich I have experienced such good effects as induces me to recommendit to such who are afflicted with a similar disorder. 

I am, &c. 

RACHAEL JAMES. Aug. 12, No. 2, Cloysters, near Smithfield. 

CASE XLVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

I should not think I discharged my duty to the public, were I toconceal for a moment the great benefit I have received from Solander'sTea, as well as two of my children, who were weakly for some months, after the measles. My own case was violent trembling of my hands, attended with lowness of spirits, for which I took variousprescriptions from many eminent of the faculty, without any visiblebenefit, till by the advice of one of them, I took to drink your Tea, which in a few weeks entirely cured me. Finding it so efficacious, andwithal so pleasant to the taste, I gave it to my children to drink, whoI am happy to say are perfectly recovered. 

I remain, SIR, &c. 

WM. HOSKINSCroydon, Aug. 13, 1794. 

CASE XLVII. _To the Proprietor of the English Sanative Tea. _

BEING long afflicted with a nervous complaint, and great depression ofspirits, I was advised to try the Sanative Tea, from which I receivedso much benefit, as induces my recommending it as a pleasant andcomfortable remedy. 

I am, SIR, &c. 

ARABELLA DEVROAX. No. 49, Gloucester-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, Aug. 13, 1794. 

CASE XLVIII. _To the Proprietor of the Sanative Tea. _

IN justice to your Sanative Tea, I approve of its utility in nervoushysterical disorders and lowness of spirits, having seen its goodeffect in cases under my own inspection. I also approve of it forchildren in the measles. 

I am, SIR, your humble servant, &c. 

JAMES FELL, Surgeon and Apothecary. No. 36, Pratt's place, Camden Town, St. Pancras, Aug. 14, 1794. 

CASE XLIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

HAVING been for several years troubled with violent nervous head-aches, I had recourse to many remedies without effect, till I tried theSanative Tea, a few packets of which effectually cured me. 

I remain, SIR, &c. 

M. LAWSON. No. 7, New Compton-street, Aug. 16, 1794. 

CASE L. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea. _

IN gratitude for the benefit I have received from your Tea, Iacknowledge its having recovered me from a bilious and nervous disorderwith which I was afflicted. 

I am, SIR, &c. 

ANN MARTIN. Pitt-street, Blackfriars, Aug. 18, 1794. 

CASE LI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. 

I was for some years attacked with a violent cough, which threatened aconsumption, for which I tried several medicines in vain, till I usedyour Sanative Tea, which has effectually cured me. 

I am, SIR, &c. 

CATHARINE BROWNE. Blewit's-buildings, Fetter-lane, Aug. 25, 1794. 

CASE LII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative EnglishTea. _

HAVING been much troubled with a nervous disorder, attended with a sickhead-ache, particularly after breakfast and tea: I was strongly advisedto try your English Tea, which by persevering in its use, has recoveredme from my complaints. I remain, SIR, your's, &c. 

F. MARSHALL. Duke's-row, Somers Town, Sept. 27, 1794. 

CASE LIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ ENGLISH TEA. 

BEING long afflicted with a slow nervous complaint, that brought onsuch a debility of my frame as rendered me incapable of my business; Iwas persuaded by a friend to the use of the Sanative Tea, and purchasedtwo packets, from which I found great relief, and by continuing itsuse, am perfectly restored to health and strength. I am, SIR, &c. 

H. I. DOBSON. No. 62, Kingsland-road, Oct. 16, 1794. 

CASE LIV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Tea. _

YOUR Sanative Tea having cured me of a violent bilious complaint withwhich I had been afflicted above six months, induces me to send youthis acknowledgement of its efficacy. 

I am, Sir, &c. 

WM. LANE. Hackney Terrace, Oct. 27, 1794. 

CASE LV. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea. _

BEING for some time past afflicted with a weakness at my stomach, attended with a violent pain in my head, I was recommended to maketrial of your Sanative Tea, which has removed my complaints, and Iwould wish to recommend it to others for the same disorder. 

I remain, Sir, your humble servant, H. MEIRICK. Shore-place, Hackney, Dec. 3, 1794. 

CASE LVI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative_ ENGLISH TEA. 

MY daughter being afflicted with violent pains in her head and stomach, I purchased some of your Tea, which has entirely relieved her from hercomplaints. I am, Sir, &c. 

JAMES BENNETT. Bagnigge Marsh, opposite the Bull, Dec. 10, 1794. 

CASE LVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's_ TEA. 

BEING greatly troubled with a weakness of stomach, indigestion and lossof appetite, I was strongly recommended to try the Sanative Tea, whichhas had so good an effect in restoring me to health, that I wish to bethe means of promoting the more general use of it in all complaints ofthat nature. 

I am, Sir, &c. 

L. FEGAN. No. 2, Union-row, London Road, St. George's Fields, Dec. 30, 1794. 

CASE LVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. 

SIR, MY daughter being in a poor state of health, in consequence of a weakand bilious Stomach, I was advised to try your Sanative Tea, whichproduced so good an effect, that I take this opportunity ofacknowledging it, and am, SIR, Your humble Servant, JAMES JARVIS. No. 21, Chapman-street, New Road, St. George's in the East, Feb. 18, 1795. 

CASE LIX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S SANATIVE TEA. 

SIR, BEING greatly afflicted with a violent head ach and lowness of spirits, I was recommended to the use of Dr. SOLANDER'S TEA, which effectuallycured me, I am, SIR, Your obedient servant, EVAN EVANS. No. 7, Winsay-row, St. George's-Fields, March 29, 1795. 

CASE LX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

SIR, THE considerable benefit I have received from your Sanative Tea in anervous disorder, with which I was afflicted, induces me to send youthis acknowledgement of it's merit, and am SIR, Your very humble servant, JOHN RICHARDSON. Church-street, Mile End, April 3, 1795. 

CASE LXI. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S ENGLISH TEA. 

SIR, YOUR Sanative English Tea, as a corrector of a weak and biliousstomach, attended with loss of appetite, with which I was longafflicted, has proved so peculiarly efficacious, that I wish it wasmore generally known by such as are troubled with that too common andcruel complaint, I am, SIR, Your most humble servant, RICHARD COX. No. 8, Paradise-street, Finsbury-square, April 12, 1795. 

CASE LXII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

SIR, BEING troubled with a depression of spirits in consequence of a biliouscomplaint and indigestion, in justice to the merits of your Tea inremoving the phlegm from my stomach, and enlivening my spirits, I sendyou this acknowledgment of its virtues. I am, Sir, Your humble Servant, ROBERT GRIBBLE. Portland Place, Walworth, July 4, 1795

CASE LXIII. _To the Proprietor of Dr.. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

SIR, AFTER a long and severe illness my brother was afflicted with a nervouscomplaint, attended with lowness of spirits; being advised to drinkyour celebrated Tea, he has experienced so much benefit from its use, that it is but justice to acknowledge its efficacy. I am, Sir, Your most humble servant, JAMES GILBERT. Charles Street, Whitechapel. 

CASE LXIV. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. 

SIR, I was a considerable time much afflicted with a bilious complaint andvery nervous, till fortunately hearing of the many Cures performed byyour Sanative Tea, in similar complaints, induced me to make trial ofit, and to persevere in its use. I now find myself so perfectlyrestored to health, that I shall embrace every opportunity to recommendit in the circle of my acquaintance. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM MARSH. Seward Street, Old Street Road. July 20, 1795. 

CASE LXV. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

SIR, I have the satisfaction to inform you, that I have just cause toapprove your Sanative Tea, from its having cured me of a severe nervoushead-ache, after the unsuccessful prescriptions of several of thefaculty. 

I am, Sir, Your most obliged servant, BARBARY STARR. No. 6, Golden Lane, Barbican. August 17, 1795. 

CASE LXVI. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

SIR, A friend of mine having drank your Sanative Tea, and approved it, I wasinduced to try it, and have experienced its efficacy in a biliouscomplaint, I am, Sir, Your humble servant, ALLAN WILSON. Corn Chandler, &c. Tottenham Court Road, May 15, 1795

CASE LXVII. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S ENGLISH TEA. 

SIR, IN the course of my practice I have had several opportunities toobserve the sanative efficacy of your English Tea, in nervous andbilious cases; I also approve of its use in hysterical disorders andlowness of spirits, and shall recommend for such. 

I am, Sir, Your humble servant, THOMAS LANGFORD, Apothecary. Strand, near Exeter Change, October 16, 1795. 

CASE LXVIII. _To the Proprietor of the_ SANATIVE TEA. 

SIR, FROM the benefit I have experienced in drinking your Sanative Tea for abilious complaint, bordering on the jaundice, I send you thisacknowledgment of its merit. 

I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, CHARLES WARWICK. No. 17, Baker's Buildings, Old Bethlem, Nov. 25, 1795. 

CASE LXIX. _To the Proprietor of the_ ENGLISH TEA. 

SIR, MY apothecary, Mr. Thomas Langford, of the Strand, having prescribed mydrinking Dr. Solander's Tea for a nervous fever and head-ache withwhich I was afflicted, I persevered in its use some time, and am nowhappily restored to health by that pleasant remedy. 

I am Sir, Your humble servant, C. RICHARDSON. No. 9, Mount Row, opposite the Paragon, Deptford Road, Nov. 14, 1795. 

CASE LXX. _To the Proprietor of Dr. _ SOLANDER'S TEA. 

SIR, I approve of your English Tea as a general beverage, particularly innervous hysterical cases, and for children in the measles andsmall-pox, and shall recommend for such in the course of my practice. 

I am, Sir, Your humble servant, O. FAIRCLOUGH, Surgeon, &c. Beaumont Street, Portland Place, Jan. 25, 1796. 

T. GOLDING, Wholesale Agent to the Proprietor of this TEA, respectfullyinforms the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public in general, that forconvenience of the Country, it is appointed to be sold by

_Mr. _

And by one principal Vender of Medicines in every other City and Townin England, Ireland, and Scotland. 

The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose this Tea, beinggathered and dried with peculiar attention to the preserving theirSanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than manysimilar Preparations, which, by being reduced to Powder, must havethose qualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. 

 * * * * *

_A CAUTION. _

The high estimation in which Dr. Solander's Tea is held, by the firstcircles of fashion, as a general beverage--the many cures it haseffected--and the pleasantness of its flavour having induced severalunprincipled persons to prepare and vend a base and spuriouspreparation under a similar title; the Proprietor, in justice to theknown efficacy of this Tea, and to secure his property from furtherdepredations, has thought proper to have an engraved copper-plateaffixed to the canisters and packets of the genuine and originalpreparation of Dr. Solander's Sanative English Tea. This plate beingentered at Stationer's Hall as the Act directs, August 20, 1794, willsubject such persons as imitate the same to a consequent prosecution. The public are therefore cautioned from purchasing any article but whatis distinguished by the said plate, and to observe thereon the wordsspecified as above, of its being entered according to Act ofParliament. 

DIRECTIONSFOR MAKINGDR. SOLANDER's TEA. 

TWO or three tea-spoonfuls of this Tea being put into a tea-pot, or acovered bason, pour boiling water upon it, and let it remain a shorttime in a state of infusion. --After using milk and sugar, agreeably tothe taste, drink it moderately warm. A few tea-cups full are sufficientfor breakfast, tea in the afternoon, or any other time a person maythink proper. 

CONTENTS. 

IN THE INTRODUCTION. 

 1 Health or Disease, greatly depend on the Choice of salutary orunwholesome Tea. 

 2 Dreadful Afflictions of nervous Disorders caused by foreign Tea. 

 3 The Manner of India Tea affecting the Constitution. 

 * * * * *

IN THE ESSAY ON TEAS. 

 1 Foreign Teas frequently cause an Atrophy or Consumption. 

 2 The acrimonious Effects of foreign Teas explained. 

 3 Foreign Teas not only impoverish, but corrupt the Blood. 

 4 Palsy caused by drinking foreign Teas. 

 5 Narcotic Salts in foreign Teas, very injurious. 

 6 Foreign Teas a chief Cause of all windy Complaints. 

 7 Opinions of different celebrated authors on foreign Teas. 

 * * * * *

IN THE MANNER OF USING. 

 1 The Use of foreign Teas has entirely changed the Constitution of theEuropeans, within the last Century. 

 2 Dr. Priestley's physical Experiment on foreign Teas. 

 3 Dr. Hugh Smith's Opinion of their injurious Effects. 

 4 Tissot's Opinion of their pernicious Qualities. 

 5 Symptomatic Effects and Diseases caused by using them. 

 6 Sir Hans Sloane's British and Dr. Solander's English Tea considered. 

 7 Effects of Coffee and Chocolate. 

 8 Virtues of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea, proved by physical Analization. 

 9 Aromatic Nature of the Sanative Tea. 

10 The sanative Manner of its acting on the Constitution. 

11 Dr. Solander's Tea superior to Chalybrates, in all nervousComplaints. 

 * * * * *

IN THE PREPARATION OF THE SANATIVE TEA. 

 1 How the natural and nutritious Qualities of the respective Plantsare preserved, &c. &c. 

 * * * * *

MANNER OF USING THE SANATIVE TEA. 

 1 The Qualities of the Plants peculiarly adapted to the Time of usingthem, so as to prove the most salutary of any Morning or EveningBeverage whatever. 

The Whole concludes with a brief physical Demonstration of theirbeneficial and restorative Effects on the Constitutions of all Ages whouse them instead of foreign Teas. 

 * * * * *

The native and exotic Plants which chiefly compose Dr. Solander's Tea, being gathered and dried with peculiar Attention, to the preserving oftheir sanative Virtues, must render them far more efficacious than manysimilar Preparations, which by being reduced to Powder, must have thoseQualities destroyed they might otherwise possess. 

A Packet of Dr. Solander's Tea at 2s. 9d. Is sufficient to breakfastone Person a Month.