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Page 148 - Lincoln's wellknown dictum that "you can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Page 112 - The medical uses of tea are not many. In fevers it is not only an excellent diluent at the commencement, but a tincture of tea made by macerating tea in proof-spirit, and adding a teaspoonful of this to a small cup of water, and given at short intervals during the night, after the acute symptoms have subsided, is often of great service. For this purpose, in hospitals and workhouses, the leaves which have been used for the ordinary infusion may be macerated in alcohol, and a spirit of sufficient strength...
Page 47 - ... peculiar flavor they impart to the infusion. The distinctive botanical features of the tea leaf are regularity of serration, which stops just short of the stalk, and the peculiarity of the veins, which run out from the mid rib almost parallel to one another, altering their course before the border is reached, and turning so as to leave a bare space just within the border. To DETECT SAND OK IRON FILINGS IN TEA.
Page 148 - Tea dealer is sure to fall a victim sooner or later to the influences which are forever working against him.
Page 47 - Tea districts, and used for the purpose of increasing the bulk and decreasing the cost of genuine Teas , this form of adulteration, however, being only trivial when compared with the former one.
Page 118 - Teas among the people they serve, as the latter are unable to pay the price, but there is not so much force in this objection as may appear on a superficial view.