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THE
Virtue and Use
OF
COFFEE,
With Regard to the
PLAGUE,
And Other
Infectious Distempers:

CONTAINING

The most Remarkable Observations ofthe Greatest Men in Europe concerningit, from the first Knowledge of it,down to this Present Time.

To which is Prefix’d,An Exact Figure of the Tree, Flower, andFruit, taken from the Life.


By R. Bradley, Fellow of theRoyal Society.


LONDON,

Printed by Eman. Matthews, at the Bible inPater-noster-Row; and W. Mears, at the Lambwithout Temple-Bar. M.DCC.XXI.

(Price Six-Pence.)

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TO

The Right Honourable

THE

Lords Spiritual and Temporal,

And to the Honourable

The Commons of Great Britain in
Parliament Assembled,

THIS

HISTORY

OF

COFFEE


Is most humbly Inscribed,

BY

Your Honours

Most Obedient, and

Most Humble Servant to command,


Richard Bradley.

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P R E F A C E.

AT this time, when every Nation in Europe is under the melancholyApprehension of an approaching Plague or Pestilence, I think it theBusiness of every Man to contribute, to the utmost of his Capacity, suchObservations, as may tend to the Service of the Publick. Upon this foot,I have some Months since published my Thoughts of the Plague in general,upon an Hypo{6}thesis which many of the Learned concur with, tho’ some fewdissent from it: However, I find, that the Remedies prescribed by thePhysicians of both Opinions, are little different from each other. It isremark’d

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