_Martinius_, the _Chinese_ by the last not only extinguish Thirst, but also dissipate their Humours to such a Degree, that they hardly ever spit. It is also by a drying Quality, that the _Agnus Castus_, _Rue_, _Mint_, and _Camphire_, render Men impotent. Besides, _Tea_ is to the _Chinese_ themselves only a new Thing, whose Virtues and Faculties they have not, as yet, sufficiently investigated; for which Reason I justly prefer to it our own _Betony_, which has been deservedly celebrated for so many Ages. The _Chinese_ Incapacity of Spitting is, therefore, a manifest Proof that _Tea_ contains a drying, though not an intensely hot Sulphur. I do not find it expresly affirmed by Authors, that _Chocolate_, as well as _Coffee_, produces Sterility and Impotence; since they rather assert, that it proves a Stimulus to Venery: A Circumstance confirmed by the Accounts of some Men of Learning and Penetration, upon their Return from _Africa_ and _America_. But as _Benzon_ informs us, "that _Chocolate_ has a somewhat bitterish Taste, and refrigerates, or dries the Body, without producing the smallest Degree of Intoxication:" Hence we may reasonably infer, that as _Chocolate_ agrees with _Coffee_ and _Tea_, in one Third of its Qualities, so all these three exactly agree with each other, in producing Effeminacy and Impotence: But I shall not here attempt an Investigation of their other Qualities. I therefore hope, that for the future, the _Europeans_ will be wise, and reject _Coffee_, _Chocolate_, and _Tea_; since they are all either equally bad, or equally good: Nay, I hope to see People of all Ranks and Conditions, have as great an Aversion to them as the _Mahometans_ and _Turks_, or rather their Emperors have to _Tobacco_, the Lovers of which, as well as thole who are idle, prodigal, barren, impotent, or effeminate, they will not suffer to live within their Territories. There is another Method of producing Barrenness and Impotence, probably brought from _Asia_ into _Europe_, which is the indiscriminate Use of Venesection, in both Sexes, behind the Ears, for intolerable Tooth-achs. But let me tell the Persons, who, despising the Authority of _Hippocrates_, suffer, like the _Scythians_, the Veins behind their Ears to be opened, that they will afterwards repent their Folly, when they find Sterility and Impotence to be their Fate. Some practical Physicians may furnish us with Instances of Tooth-achs, accompanied with Deliriums, and other violent Symptoms; but none of them seem to have observed, that a Tooth-ach, when removed by opening the Veins behind the Ears, has proved the Cause of Sterility, as _Hippocrates_, who, according to _Macrobius_, was never deceived himself, nor imposed upon others, affirms, not of a single Instance or two, but of the whole Nation of the _Scythians_. Let, therefore, the Masters and Mistresses of Families reject the Custom of cauterising or opening the Veins behind the Ears, unless they incline that their Children should be cursed