[Illustration] A TREATISE ON _Tobacco_, _Tea_, _Coffee_, and _Chocolate_. [Illustration] A TREATISE ON TOBACCO, TEA, COFFEE, _and_ CHOCOLATE. IN WHICH I. The Advantages and Disadvantages attending the Use of these Commodities, are not only impartially considered, upon the Principles of _Medicine_ and _Chymistry_, but also ascertained by _Observation_ and _Experience_. II. Full and distinct Directions laid down for knowing in what Cases, and for what particular Constitutions, these Substances are either beneficial, or hurtful. III. The _Chinese_ or _Asiatic Tea_, shewn to be the same with the _European Chamelæagnus_, or _Myrtus Brabantica_. _The Whole Illustrated with_ COPPER PLATES, _exhibiting the_ Tea _Utensils of the_ Chinese _and_ Persians. Written originally by SIMON PAULI; AND Now Translated by Dr. _JAMES_. _Ante omnia scire convenit Naturam Corporis; quia alii graciles, alii obesi sunt, alii calidi, alii frigidiores, alii humidi, alii sicciores, alios adstricta, alios resoluta, alvus exercet._ Celsus, _Lib. 1._ _Cap. 3._ _LONDON_: Printed for T. OSBORNE, in _Gray's Inn_; J. HILDYARD, at _York_; M. BRYSON, at _Newcastle_; and J. LEAKE, at _Bath_. M,DCC,XLVI. [Illustration] A TREATISE ON _TOBACCO_, &c. As _Nicolaus Monardus_, in _Simpl. Med. Histor._ has given so full and accurate an History and Description of _Tobacco_, that others have only borrowed their Accounts of it from his Works, we shall, in the Words of that Author, in _Cap. 14_, inform the Reader what _Tobacco_ is, where it is produced, and to what Uses it is applied. "The Plant _Tobacco_, says he, was formerly used by the _Indians_, and especially by the Inhabitants of _New Spain_, for the Cure of Wounds. A few Years ago it was imported into _Spain_, rather for the Decoration of Gardens, than on Account of its medicinal Virtues: But it is now more celebrated for the latter, than used for the former. "This Plant is among the _Indians_ called _Picelt_; for the _Spaniards_ first called it _Tobacco_ from a certain Island of that Name, where great Quantities of it were produced.