Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4 Science and History Writings

Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.

1: W. R. of Gray’s Inn, Esq. [Walter Rumsey], Organon Salutis. An Instrument to Cleanse the Stomach. As also divers new Experiments of the virtue of Tobacco and Coffee: How much they conduce to preserve humane health (London, R. Hodgkinsonne for D. Pakeman, 1657), xxiv, 56pp.; 8mo. BL. ESTCR5405. Extract, pp. iii–xxiv, 1–39.; 2: The Nature of the Drink Kauhi, or Coffe, and the Berry of which it is made, Described by an Arabian Phisitian [Antaki, Dawud ibn ‘Umar], trans. by Edward Pococke (Oxford, Henry Hall, 1659), 8pp. BL: E.1867[2]. ESTCR5691.; 3: N. D., The Vertues of Coffee. Set forth in the Works of Lord Bacon his Natural Hist., Mr Parkinson his Herbal, Sir George Sandys his Travails, James Howel Esq; his Epistles. Collected and Published for the Satisfaction of the Drinkers thereof (London, W.G. [William Godbid], 1663), 8pp.; 8°. BL: T.339. ESTCR175890. Hünersdorff.; 4: Robert Morton, The nature, quality, and most excellent vertues of coffee ([London, n.p., c . 1670]), 1°. BL: 778. k.15.(11). ESTCR231660.; 5: A Proclamation to Restrain the Spreading of False News, and Licentious Talking of Matters of State and Government (London, John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1672), dated 12 June 1672. BL: 21.h.2.(84).; 6: A Proclamation for the Suppression of Coffee-Houses (London, John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1675). dated 29 December 1675/6. BL: 21.h.2.(120). ESTCR214880. Hünersdorff.; 7: An Additional Proclamation Concerning Coffee-Houses (London, John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1675/6), dated 8 January 1675/6. BL: 21.h.2.(122). ESTCR226464. Hünersdorff.; 8: [John Chamberlayne], The Natural History of Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Tobacco, with a Tract of Elder, and Juniper-Berries, shewing how useful they may be in our Coffee-houses, and also the way of making Mum, with some Remarks upon that Liquour. Collected from the Writings of the best Physicians, and Modern Travellers (London, Christopher Wilkinson, 1682), 36, [4]pp.; 4°. BL: 1038.i.48. ESTCR19385. Extract, pp.

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