TEA DRINKERS' DISEASES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2466, 2 December 1886, Page 2

TEA DRINKERS' DISEASES.

| ■• ...i ■■■■» r— _ ; It is not a little curious that the diseases arising from the wiong use of tea should be met with in greater frequency in ooun-

trie 3 foreign to its growth. Recently in France, M. Eloy has reminded medical meu how vast is the number of diseases owning an allegiance, to the dominion of Queen tea The list of headings in-M. Eloy's paper is well calculated to arouse attention, and, -we lope, .to lead to s'o'nSe abatement-of-this wide-spread ditojxUr.;j America and Englaud; are the Countries affected most with the maladies arising domiftanceofnervousaystems isachtiracte.istioof" theism general excitation of the'functions of ' the .nervous system may be observed; or the "weakness may be noted more, especially iiiihe brain 'as distinguished trora the spinal cord. Perversbn of tho sense of hearing is* not at all; an uiicommon hearing; voices that haye no real or objective existence. The irritability that overtakes women bo frequently 'may' sometimes be cle ariy traced to an excessive indulgence' in' tea! It is a mistake to suppose that it is only the poor semptreas who is'the chief sufferer from "theism,"'' No doubt the tannin which tea that has /boeii'standing long con* tains does a groat amount of mischief, but the derangement that it onuses hardly belongs to that class of diseases with which we are' at present concerned. The habit of tea-drinking is one that grows on its victims like the similar ones of .opium or alcohol. Taken in strict moderation, and in due precautious in .the mode of preparationytqa is, like alcohol, 'a valuable stimulant [in its abuse there is also a certain, analogy. . There is hardly a morbid symptom;whioh may not be traceable to tea as it? cause.—Lancet. "