Bontekoe: Tractaat van het excellenste kruyd thee

In 1678, the Dutch physician Cornelis Bontekoe (pseudonym for Cornelis Dekker, 1640/1647–1685) published (the first edition of) a treatise advocating tea-drinking.

Cornelis Bontekoe: Tractaat van het excellenste kruyd thee: ‚t Welk vertoond het regte gebruyk, en de grote kragten van ‚t selve in gesondheid, en siekten: benevens een kort discours op het leven, de siekte, … → Continue reading

Chamberlayne: The Natural history of coffee, thee, chocolate, tobacco

John Chamberlayne: The Natural history of coffee, thee, chocolate, tobacco in four several sections ; with a tract of elder and juniper berries … collected from the writings of the best physicians and modern travellers (London: Printed for Christopher Wilkinson at the Black Boy over against St. Dunstan’s church in Fleetstreet 1682)

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