As a counterpoint to my previous post on the dangers of tea-sipping, take a look at The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, which charges that the “Decay of that true Old English Vigour” can be blamed on “nothing more than the Excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called COFFEE, which Riffling Nature of her Choicest Treasures, and Drying up the Radical Moisture, has so Eunucht our Husbands, and Crippled our more kind Gallants, that they are become as Impotent, as Age, and as unfruitful as those Desarts whence that unhappy Berry is said to be brought.”
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