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Figure 7. Appendix on sage and water from Thomas Short (?1690–1772), A Dissertation upon Tea: Explaining Its Nature and Properties by Many New Experiments, and Demonstrating from Philosophical Principles, the Various Effects It Has on Different Constitutions; to Which Is Added the Natural History of Tea, and a Detection of the Several Frauds Used in Preparing It: Also a Discourse on the Virtues of Sage and Water ... (London, Printed by W. Bowyer for Fletcher Gyles, 1730, Appendix, pp. 66–67), HI Library call no. DH8 S559D.