and Faculties, then, of _Tea_, according to _Tulpius_, are these following: "It renders the Body vigorous, and removes nephritic Pains, to which none of the _Chinese_ are, for this very Reason, obnoxious. It carries off Pains and Stuffings of the Head, Inflammations of the Eyes, Defluxions, Difficulty of Breathing, Weakness of the Stomach, Gripings of the Intestines, and Weariness: It also prevents Sleep, heats moderately, and by constricting the Mouth of the Stomach, hinders the Vapours from ascending to the Head. This Liquor, when drank warm, _Trigautius_ thinks highly salutary in a great many Cases." Though I do not deny these Things, yet, when the _Chinese_ assert, that nothing is more conducive to the protracting of Life to an extreme old Age than _Tea_, they run into an Hyperbole, no less glaring and ostentatious than that of _Cicero_, when describing his own Return, in _L. Calphurn. Pis._ "_Rome_ herself, _says he_, seemed to move from her Foundation, in order to contemplate her returning Guardian and Preserver, whom she received with such unbounded and universal Joy, that even the Walls and Temples of the City seemed to rejoice." This Happiness of the _Chinese_, is intirely owing to other Causes; for their Air is clement, and their Regimen so temperate, as, almost, to come up to that of the _Pythagoreans_; though the _Tartars_ cannot boast either of such a Climate, or such Moderation. But, with the _Europeans_, a fuller and more copious Diet is used, which is therefore productive of more Diseases: Hence, the incomparable _Bartholine_, in _Consil. Med. de Cometa._ gives the _Europeans_ a most salutary Advice, by recommending a spare and slender Diet, and condemning a full and copious Regimen: "Moderate eating of Flesh, _says he_, is to be injoined; since Excess, in this Respect, is the Origin of violent Putrefaction, and various Disorders. Thus _Diogenes apud Porphyr. in Lib. I. de Abstinen._ used to say, that those who eat much were generally Thieves, and Soldiers; and such as eat Flesh were Sycophants and Tale-Bearers. Hence the _Quadragesimal_ Fast, in _Concil. Laodicen. Canon. 50._ is ordered to be kept with Bread, Salt, and Water, as _Christoph. Justellus_ explains the Word Ξηροφαγία from _Epiphanius_:" Hence the eating little Flesh, but somewhat more Broth, is conducive to the Preservation of Health: So that the slender, spare Diet of the _Asiatics_ protracts their Lives to extreme old Age; whereas, the full and luxurious Regimen of the _Europeans_, cuts them off, before the natural Period of their Life is expired: So happy a Tendency have a clement Air, and a proper Regimen, if not to protract Life, yet, at least, to preserve Health, and prevent Diseases. Not only _Tea_, which we have from the _East_, but also _Chocolate_, which is imported from the _West Indies_, begins to be famous: With respect to this latter Commodity, the Reader may consult _Antonius Colmerus de Ledesma_, whose Work is translated from _Spanish_ into _Latin_,