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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.
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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.

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