[Illustration: The COFFEE Tree.] THE VIRTUE and USE OF COFFEE, With Regard to the _PLAGUE_, And Other Infectious Distempers: CONTAINING The most Remarkable Observations of the Greatest Men in _Europe_ concerning it, from the first Knowledge of it, down to this Present Time. To which is Prefix’d, An Exact Figure of the Tree, Flower, and Fruit, taken from the Life. By R. BRADLEY, Fellow of the Royal Society. _LONDON_, Printed by EMAN. MATTHEWS, at the _Bible_ in _Pater-noster-Row_; and W. MEARS, at the _Lamb_ without _Temple-Bar_. M.DCC.XXI. (Price Six-Pence.) TO The Right Honourable THE Lords Spiritual and Temporal, And to the Honourable The COMMONS of _Great Britain_ in Parliament Assembled, THIS HISTORY OF COFFEE Is most humbly Inscribed, BY Your HONOURS Most Obedient, and Most Humble Servant to command, RICHARD BRADLEY. [Illustration] PREFACE.