It's essential and always helpful to know about the things used by a large population daily. This valuable work on tobacco, tea, and coffee focuses on the advantages and disadvantages resulting from the consumption of these items. Based on the principles of medicine and chemistry, this treatise was ascertained by observation and experience. The author and Danish physician, Simon Paulli, efficiently lists directions for knowing the particular cases and situations in which these commodities are helpful or hurtful. Paulli includes his research to show the similarities between the Chinese or Asiatic Tea and the European Chamelæagnus, or Myrtus Brabantica. Each topic in this work is explained with great accuracy and detail.

Excerpt from A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate This Plant 'is among the Indian; called Picelt 5 for the Spaniards firf't called it Tobacco from a certain Ifland of that Name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Paulli (1603-80) was a Danish physician and naturalist who was a professor of anatomy, surgery and botany at the University of Copenhagen. He was the first court physician to Frederick III of Denmark and the author of several treatises on medicine and botany. This work against the use of tobacco and tea was first published in 1661 and later translated into English by Dr Robert James in 1746. James (1703-76), a friend of Samuel Johnson, was an English physician best known as the author of A Medicinal Dictionary.