Kernel of the Fruit incrustated with Sugar. Nor is this only customary in _Egypt_, but also through all the Provinces of _Persia_. This renders the Seeds _Bon_ not only dear, but scarce, in _Europe_." Though _Weslingius_ thinks that these Seeds are useful to the _Europeans_, yet I am of a different Opinion; for, in like Manner, the _Europeans_ have resolved to sweeten, not only their _Coffee_, but also their _Chocolate_ and _Tea_, without having any View to prevent Disorders, or recover Health; but only to follow the Customs of the _Asiatics_, and indulge themselves in a Liquor, whose Taste is pleasant to them. If it should be said, that _Tulpius_ informs us, that the _Chinese_ dissolve a few Grains of Salt, or Sugar, in their Infusions of _Tea_, I answer, we here enquire not what is done, but what ought to be done; not what is palatable, but what is conducive to preserve Health, and restore it when lost. Though I do not altogether disapprove of _Salt_ in _Tea_, yet I absolutely condemn _Sugar_. How ill the _Europeans_, especially those of the _Northern_ Countries, consult their Health, by mixing their _Mustard_, and their Sauces of _Vinegar_, and _Horse-Radish_, designed as a Preservative against the _Scurvy_, with _Sugar_, I have already shewn, in _Class. 3. Quadripartit. Botan._ For the same Reason, _Sugar_, mixed with an Infusion of _Tea_, infringes and impairs its Virtues; so that, by this means, we drink, not a medicated Water, but little more only than simple _European_ Water, edulcorated with _Sugar_. This, no doubt, is an excellent Remedy against Intoxication; but certainly if we read both antient and modern Authors, we shall find, that Drunkenness may be removed by drinking cold Water. Besides, an Intoxication, next to Madness, may be greatly alleviated by wrapping up the _Scrotum_ in Cloths dipped in cold Water. Hence we have but little Reason to bring _Tea_ from _China_, _Tartary_, and _Japan_, at an extravagant Price, which might be far better laid out, in relieving poor indigent Families at Home. But the present _Europeans_ are vastly different from what they were before the _Asiatic_ Effeminacy was known among us. The _Europeans_ might, perhaps, be indulged in the perpetual Use of _Tea_, provided their Regimen was the same with that of the _Asiatics_. Now, Regimen includes all the five Non-Naturals, which are Air, Meat and Drink, Excretion and Retention, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, and the Passions of the Mind. Now, all these, in _Europe_, are vastly different from what they are in the _Indies_, as is obvious from the faithful and impartial Accounts, given us by _Martinius_, and _Mandelslo_. This Subject is excellently handled by _Hippocrates_, in _Tr. de Aere, Aquis, & Locis_, who joins these three together, with great Judgment, and for very sufficient Reasons; since each of the three has Atoms, in a manner, peculiar to itself, which it continually sends forth, and diffuses even