TEA AS A PANACEA.
" Your interesting note on tho old-time use of tobacco as a medicine reminds me," writes a correspondent _to the " Westminster Gazette," " that, in its early days in England, a' still wider range of curative virtues was claimed for tea, which is now being abused in tho papers as a fertile cause of insanity. In tho ' Mercurius Politicus 'of September 30, 1658, appears a marvellous advertisement extolling the virtues of 'that excellent, and by all physicians approved, China drink called Tcha, and Tay alias Tee.' And there is in tho British Museum a broadsheet issued by the founder of Garraway's in which its ' particular virtues '' aro displayed at length. Among many other things, it helpeth tho headache, rcmoveth the obstructions of tho spleen, cleareth tho sight and purifieth adult liumours and a hot liver. It prevents and cures agues, surfeits, and fevers; prevents consumptions, is good for colds, dropsies, and scurvies, and expolleth infection.' No wonder that it ' hath been aold for ton pounds tho pound-weight,'''
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 13
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169TEA AS A PANACEA. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 13
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