Care for a nice cuppa?

Les histoires suspectes entre médecins et apothicaires ne datent pas d'hier. C'est du moins ce qu'on apprend en lisant des livres sérieux :

The Dutch physician Cornelis Bontekoe (1640*-80) earned the epithet of "the tea doctor" because of his book on the healthful effects of tea, recommending eight to ten cups a day at a minimum, and fifty to two hundred a day as reasonable; rumours abounded (but have so far remained unproven) that he had close connections to the major importer of tea, the Dutch East India Company.

Harold J. Cook, «Physicians and natural history», in Cultures of Natural History, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 95

* D'autres sources me donnent 1647 comme année de naissance et j'ai la flemme de les mettre d'accord... je vais plutôt mettre l'eau à chauffer...