NO MORE TEA IN BED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3010, 6 October 1908, Page 3

NO MORE TEA IN BED.

No more* tea in bed! This is the latest dictum of the doctors (says an English paper). I They say that all the ills to which flesh is heir are directly traceable to the pernicious habit of a cup of tea brought to the bedside belore getting up. "It stands to reason," said one nhysician, "that a cup of a badlyinfused decoction of what is to all intents and purposes a drug, taken on i an empty stomach, must have a dele- | terious effect. It sets up a pseudo- j digestive action when there is nothing to digest, and one of the immediate results is a distaste for breakfast. "The day is started with a disturbed digestive apparatus, and consequently eacti subsequent meal tends to aggravate the trouble. If it is found absolutely necessary to take something before the exertion of getting up, bathing and dressing, a glass of hot water is really the only thing 'permissible, and even that is much better dispensed with. More than half: the digestive troubles of the day are caused by this ridiculous system of a cup of tea in bed." The superintendent nurse of a nursing home and rest cure establishment in the- West End endorsed all the doctor had to say, adding, however, that a glass of warm milk instead of hot water was quite permissible.