[1] A journey to the Tea Countries of China, p. 281, London 1852.
[2] Ancient Accounts of India and China, by Eusebius Renaudot, London
1733.
[3] Delle cause della grandezza delle citta. Giovanni Botero Milan
1596, p. 61.
[4] MERCURIUS POLITICUS, comprising the sum of Foreign intelligence
with the affairs now on foot in the three nations of England, Scotland
and Ireland. For information of the people. From Thursday, September
23rd to Thursday, September 30th, 1658. Number 435.
[5] MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS. A collection of most materiáll
occurances and transactions in publick affaires, A.D. 1659 to 1672.
Add. M.S.S. 10116, p. 14.
[6] History of England, iv. 132.
[7] Dried sage leaves were used for making infusions even up to the
year 1750.
[8] See Report from Select Committee on Commercial Relations with
China, 12th July, 1847, p. 501.
[9] See Article by Bannister in the Journal of the Society of Arts,
October 31, 1890 p. 1030.
[10] The oil was found to contain small quantities of methyl salicylate
or oil of wintergreen.
[11] Commentarius de abusu tabaci americanorum veteri et Herbae Thee
Asiaticorum in Europa novo 1665.
[12] Van Swieten’s Commentaries, xvii., 450.
[13] Ibid., x., 274, 275.
[14] “An Essay on Tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing
industry, and impoverishing the nation,” London 1757.
[15] THE LITERARY MAGAZINE, 1757, ii., 161.
[16] “A letter to the Members of the Temperance Society” James Henry,
M.D., Dublin, 1830.
[17] “Medical Record,” New York, 1879, xvi., 43.
[18] “The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,” 1886, cxiv., 314.
[19] “Medical News,” 1894, lxv., 486.
[20] Archives of Surgery, 1892, iii., 366.
[21] “Medical Press and Circular,” 1894, i., 188.
[22] “British Medical Journal,” 1885, i., 270.
[23] Sanitary Record 1883, v., 199.