If it should be said, that _Tulpius_ informs us, that the _Chinese_ dissolve a few Grains of Salt, or Sugar, in their Infusions of _Tea_, I answer, we here enquire not what is done, but what ought to be done; not what is palatable, but what is conducive to preserve Health, and restore it when lost. Though I do not altogether disapprove of _Salt_ in _Tea_, yet I absolutely condemn _Sugar_. How ill the _Europeans_, especially those of the _Northern_ Countries, consult their Health, by mixing their _Mustard_, and their Sauces of _Vinegar_, and _Horse-Radish_, designed as a Preservative against the _Scurvy_, with _Sugar_, I have already shewn, in _Class. 3. Quadripartit. Botan._ For the same Reason, _Sugar_, mixed with an Infusion of _Tea_, infringes and impairs its Virtues; so that, by this means, we drink, not a medicated Water, but little more only than simple _European_ Water, edulcorated with _Sugar_. This, no doubt, is an excellent Remedy against Intoxication; but certainly if we read both antient and modern Authors, we shall find, that Drunkenness may be removed by drinking cold Water. Besides, an Intoxication, next to Madness, may be greatly alleviated by wrapping up the _Scrotum_ in Cloths dipped in cold Water. Hence we have but little Reason to bring _Tea_ from _China_, _Tartary_, and _Japan_, at an extravagant Price, which might be far better laid out, in relieving poor indigent Families at Home. But the present _Europeans_ are vastly different from what they were before the _Asiatic_ Effeminacy was known among us. The _Europeans_ might, perhaps, be indulged in the perpetual Use of _Tea_, provided their Regimen was the same with that of the _Asiatics_. Now, Regimen includes all the five Non-Naturals, which are Air, Meat and Drink, Excretion and Retention, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, and the Passions of the Mind. Now, all these, in _Europe_, are vastly different from what they are in the _Indies_, as is obvious from the faithful and impartial Accounts, given us by _Martinius_, and _Mandelslo_. This Subject is excellently handled by _Hippocrates_, in _Tr. de Aere, Aquis, & Locis_, who joins these three together, with great Judgment, and for very sufficient Reasons; since each of the three has Atoms, in a manner, peculiar to itself, which it continually sends forth, and diffuses even to a great Distance: So that some Bodies, according to _Bartholine_, may, by means of the Atoms they emit, propagate the Sphere of their sympathetic Actions, to the Distance of a Thousand Miles. About the _Equinoxes_, and _Solstices_, the sudden Changes of the State of the _Atmosphere_, and the Variety of Vapours exhaled from the Earth, produce surprizing Alterations in Health. And these Exhalations rise sometimes in such large Quantities, as to be condensed, and by their own Weight to fall down, in the Form of sulphureous Showers: A memorable Instance of this we had in _Norway_, where, on _May 19, 1665_, a violent Tempest, accompanied with uncommon Thunder, and thick Clouds, broke out: During this Storm, there fell from the Clouds, a Substance, highly similar to Sulphur, which not only floated on the Water, but also seemed to cover the Earth. When _Stobæus_ subjected this Matter to an Examination, he found, after drying, and passing it through a Sieve, that when it was become moderately warm, on an heated Tile, it emitted a fetid Smoak of the same Colour with that of the Spirit of _Nitre_, in Distillation. But this Matter could not be fused by the strongest Fire; by which Means, however, it became inodorous, and like small Sand, though before it resembled a fetid, coarse Sulphur, reduced to Powder. The same Author, in his Letters also, informs me, that, when about as much of the recent Matter, as would lie on the Point of a Knife, was laid upon a red hot Tile, it was spontaneously kindled, made a Kind of Noise, and emitted a reddish fetid Smoak. Next Day _Stobæus_ endeavoured to sublime this crude and sulphureous Matter, by itself, without any Addition, in order to discover, whether Flowers of Sulphur could be obtained from it; but his Labour was in vain; for though the Matter became red hot by due Degrees of Fire, yet no Flowers appeared; only the first Steam, which, in the Alembic, appeared reddish, in the Water, assumed a dark ferruginous Colour: Then, by augmenting the Fire, a whitish Spirit appeared, which gave a similar Colour to the Water. This Steam and Spirit appeared in Distillation to be of an acrid Taste; so that _Stobæus_ justly concluded them to contain a volatile Salt, of a particular Kind.