Part 5

History of England, iv. 132.

Dried sage leaves were used for making infusions even up to the year 1750.

See Report from Select Committee on Commercial Relations with China, 12th July, 1847, p. 501.

See Article by Bannister in the Journal of the Society of Arts, October 31, 1890 p. 1030.

The oil was found to contain small quantities of methyl salicylate or oil of wintergreen.

Commentarius de abusu tabaci americanorum veteri et Herbae Thee Asiaticorum in Europa novo 1665.

Van Swieten’s Commentaries, xvii., 450.

Ibid., x., 274, 275.

“An Essay on Tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation,” London 1757.

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE, 1757, ii., 161.

“A letter to the Members of the Temperance Society” James Henry, M.D., Dublin, 1830.

“Medical Record,” New York, 1879, xvi., 43.

“The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,” 1886, cxiv., 314.

“Medical News,” 1894, lxv., 486.

Archives of Surgery, 1892, iii., 366.

“Medical Press and Circular,” 1894, i., 188.

“British Medical Journal,” 1885, i., 270.

Sanitary Record 1883, v., 199.

Transcriber’s Notes

Minor errors and inconsistencies in punctuation have been fixed.

Page 3: “nervous irritibility” changed to “nervous irritability”

Page 10: “impare digestion” changed to “impair digestion”

Page 18: “that an alteration” changed to “than an alteration”

The column headers for Table F were added.