Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking

William Scott Tebb (1830 - 1917)

William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the makeup of tea. Interestingly it was a drink to boost mood. He was commissioned to find the effects of drinking tea and the characteristics of those effects finding it to be a stimulant and noting there was too much tea drinking at the time.

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Health & Fitness, Science

Language: English

Keyword(s): tea (15), tea drinking (2), history of tea (1), science of tea (1)

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