It's essential and always helpful to know about the things used by a large population daily. This valuable work on tobacco, tea, and coffee focuses on the advantages and disadvantages resulting from the consumption of these items. Based on the principles of medicine and chemistry, this treatise was ascertained by observation and experience. The author and Danish physician, Simon Paulli, efficiently lists directions for knowing the particular cases and situations in which these commodities are helpful or hurtful. Paulli includes his research to show the similarities between the Chinese or Asiatic Tea and the European Chamelæagnus, or Myrtus Brabantica. Each topic in this work is explained with great accuracy and detail.