IN DEFENCE OF TEA.
Chocolate, according to Balzac, is even more dangerous as a stimulant than tea or coffee. The decline of Spain from the proud position it once lield he ascribes to the introduction of chocolate, and its speedy adoption by all classes. as an habitiial drink. Its deadliness is further proved by an experiment recorded in the "Traite ■ des Excitants Modernes,"' and apparently nowhere else. The' British Government, Balzac tells us, reprieved three criminals condemned to death, with a view to seeing how long a man could'live nourished exclusively on tea, coffee, or chocolate. The chocolate drinker died after eight months, and the coffee drinker at the end of two years; while the man condemned to subsist on tea survived three years. The experiment was promoted, the author adds, by the British East- India , Company, with a view to pushing the sale of tea, and they had every reason to be satisfied with the result. ' • ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 3
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157IN DEFENCE OF TEA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 3
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