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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tens or refreshes the body and clears the per-ceptive faculties. A Eu-ropean of the 16th centuryspoke of coffee as a bever-age which helpeth digestionand procureth alacrity.Whether Chinaman and Eu-ropean were entirely right ornot, in their estimate of thegood qualities of tea andcoffee, the fact presents it-self to-day, that no bever-ages are so extensively used; and I think modern writers may saywith truth, that if used moderately, and with due reference to temper-ament and individual idiosyncrasy, none are more harmless. The fact that tea does not agree with one person, does not prove itdangerous or injurious for another. Some people cannot eat straw-berries without an attack of colic; others enjoy strawberries, but asweet apple will create constipation. The effects of tea and coffeedepend entirely on the physical peculiarities of the drinkers, and thesame as in the use of food, no definite rule can be laid down. Gen-eral directions may be given, which, if observed, will enable most
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A TEA PLANT. 78 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. intelligent persons to judge of what is positively hurtful in theirindividual cases. Few nervous people can drink tea, while those ofa hilious and lymphatic temperament, can indulge with impunity.The effects on the former are usually weakness, tremor, hysteria,hypochondria, and paralysis; while on the latter, they are mentaland corporeal exhilaration. Tea acts at once on the nervous system,quickening the circulation of the electrical elements, and impartingto the man of sluggish nerve activity and vivacity, and its use oftenallays headache induced by bilious disturbances. With its narcoticproperties, it possesses peculiar exhilarating powers, which may resultin a measure from the speedy re-actory effects of the former. Coffee,on the other hand, is generally suitable to lean, nervous persons. Itacts upon the blood, and is bracing to the muscular system. Personswho are not bilious may often allay a severe headache, if not causedb

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