How to Drink Tea.

Evening Star, Issue 8717, 8 January 1892, Page 2

How to Drink Tea.

Here is an extract from an Interesting lecture delivered by Sir Andrew Clark recently to the students of the London Hospital“ Tea 1b a blessed beverage. I do not know what I should do without it. But there is tea and tea; and one of thp teas which I have in my thind is the representation of all that is physiologically wicked. Igo about town a good deal holding oonsnltations here and there, and aboot five o'clock when I get into a place the lady of the house will say to me 1 Sir Andrew, you look so tired; do let me give you a cup of tea,' I say ‘ Thank yon very much,’ But the tsa has stood for half an hour; and she remarks * I know yon do not like it strong, Sir Andrew,’ and she puts about a tablespoonful of tea into the cup and fills it np with water. Now, I call it positive ornelty to give tea like that to anybody, and I ho-p yoa, gpntlemep, always lebfyour fajpft against each a beverage. Tea to be useful should be, first of all, black China tea—tha Indian tea which is being cultivated baa become so powerful in its effects upon the nervous system that a cup of it taken early in the morning, as many people do, so dis orders the nervous system that those who take, it actually get into a state of tea intoxication, ano it produces a form of nerve disturbance which is most painful to witness. If ypn want to have, either for yourselves or for yonr patients, tea which wifi not injure and which will refresh, get black China tea. putting in the eight measure—the oldfashioned teaspoonfal for each person, and one for the blessed pot Then.pour on briskly boiling water,' and within' five minntes you must pour it off again, or. it wpll become wicked instead of.good.”