Dr. Hutchinson and Dr. Kane agree in the main.

What is the meaning of such radical differences of view? We think
they arise from three causes: First, tea affects different
persons very differently; secondly, the subject has not received
that careful study which it merits, and thirdly, there is a
careless confounding of at least three classes of effects, and a
confusion of terms in describing them.

We feel an unaffected diffidence in criticising and endeavoring
to improve upon the expressions of scientific men of honest
purpose, but we may be pardoned for pointing the way to a more
careful analysis of the merits and deficiencies of an article of
diet used by so many millions of people.

We find among the ordinary effects of tea-drinking:

Exhilaration:--an elevation of feeling, a lightness of mood or
spirits; a cheerfulness or even joy, which is compatible with
rest. This effect may be entirely independent of pure stimulus,
or of any disposition to mental or physical activity.

Stimulation:--a quickening or rousing to action of any faculty,
but as usually employed, an urging to action of bodily or mental
powers.

Sustaining:--enabling one to continue the expenditure of energy
with less sense of fatigue, at the time, or afterwards.

Refreshing:--relieving or reviving after exertion of any kind;