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Show TEA-DRiNKINC. The Fuotl and Tud It? farmer, an English paper, says: "It is on women that the evil tllk'ta of lea-drinking fall with the greatest weight. How many women, who think they cannot "get along' a single day without tea, owe it to their cold feet find hands, their liability to frequent col.lt), their 'peculiar difficulties, especially their weakening ones, and their habitual loss ut appetite, rendering them a prey lo 'dinner-pills,' or tho absurdities absurdi-ties termed 'strengthening medicines,' so long in vogue. No wonder tea-drinkers tea-drinkers are so frequently small eaters when their tea has gradually destroyed their appetite! But peihaps the worst use to which tea is applied by women is the practice of drinking copiously ft of warm lea during pregnancy, with the idea that it will render their milk abundant. A most unfounded, ab-r ab-r surd and disastrous practice- It is alike injurious to the mother and her otl'-priug; and it may originate the erations. iar uevouu me umu fourth. According to Dr. William , Alcolt, one cause of a scrofulous constitution, con-stitution, by inheritance, is to be found in the use of tea by ancestors, and lie reasons out the matter on sound physiological principles, observing observ-ing that whatever weakens the nerves especially those of the stomach io a mother, is sure to entail a tendency to disease on her ollspring, which will not unlrequently prove to be scrofula, or that dismal and universal disease--tuherculjus consumption. There is also reason to infer that much of our modern ear-disease is caused by the tea drinking habit of our population. Tne hearing is allected, at least indirectly in-directly by colds so much morecom-uiDn morecom-uiDn than among our forefathers before the introduction of tea. This is an absolute necessity, and it cannot be explained by any change in the climate tor the worse; anyhow, the tact id certain, and it is equally certain cer-tain that the sudden heating produced by tea, as rapidly followed by refrigeration refrig-eration or chill, cannot fail to be a perpetual caustof the otl'ection in question eo often the precursor of consumption." |