tailieunhanh - TEA AND COFFEE

Exhilarating properties of tea. Its introduction into Europe. Amount consumed. Increase of this consumption. That every variety of tea sold in our American market, if good for anything, is, in a greater or less degree, exciting or exhilarating, is, I believe, generally known. Few would long continue to use an article - even with the addition of cream, milk or sugar - which had no other effect on the system than that of pure water, viz., to quench thirst | 1 TEA AND COFFEE WILLIAM ANDRUS ALCOTT CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. TEA AND COFFEE Their Physical Intellectual and Moral Effects On The Human System. By Dr. William A. Alcott Author of The Library of Health House I Live In Vegetable Diet Health Tracts Use of Tobacco etc. Fifth Stereotype Edition. New York Published by Samuel R. Wells No. 389 Broadway. TEA AND COFFEE. 2 Part I. - TEA. CHAPTER I. 3 CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF TEA. Exhilarating properties of tea. Its introduction into Europe. Amount consumed. Increase of this consumption. That every variety of tea sold in our American market if good for anything is in a greater or less degree exciting or exhilarating is I believe generally known. Few would long continue to use an article - even with the addition of cream milk or sugar - which had no other effect on the system than that of pure water viz. to quench thirst. Of the nature and extent of the excitement produced by tea however most persons appear to be ignorant. They are in all probability little aware that it pervades by its influence the whole vital domain and so far as it excites or exhilarates at all does it by affecting the brain and nervous system the stomach heart liver etc. in nearly the same way with distilled and fermentated liquors opium and tobacco. They rarely suspect that they are admitting to their embrace in the guise of a friend a most insidious and dangerous enemy - one who is silently though slowly undermining and destroying the very citadel of life itself. That such is the fact however I shall be compelled by a stern regard for truth to prove. Tea does not appear to have been known in Europe or America till about two hundred years ago. Now as Europe has been settled more than 3200 years it follows that not less than 10 000 000 000 of its earlier inhabitants must have gone down to the grave without the .