Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-10-12
From the Baltimore Morning Chronicle.
RYE COFFEE.

FRIEND ALLEN-I observe in your pa
per of the 2ist instant, an article taken
from Boston paper, in which a " Friend
to Health" as he styles himself, ex-
presses his "great concern" that the
"good people of Boston" should have
become SO very economical as TO make
use Of Rye Coffee. He says that Rye
is peculiarly calculated to produce weak
ness of The limbs and deb.litate the sys-
tenn in whatever way it may be used,"
and that if you feed horse constantly
with Rye, 1t will destroy him, by TAX
ing away FIRST the strength OF his limbs,
and then that OF his whole body" This
is certainly something "new under the
SUM-" Where is there in this part ofthe
country, a good horse master that does
not constantly feed with Chopped Rye /!
and who has better or as good horses as
those VINO make use of Rye as the prin-
cipai article OF food none-for there is
nothing more strengthening or nonrish-
ing than Rye for horse or any other
laboring beast. Porcius, in The Anne
rican Farmer, vol. /, page rs, says,
Rye is strong and healthy food for
man and beast" Calvin Jones, M. d.
lwbo it appears has given more attention
to this subject than any other modern
writer) speaking Of indigestible aliment,
says, 81 shall notice by name only the
single article of Coffee. But this is
enough-tbe indigestions occasioned by
this foreign poison, and the affections de-
pending thereon, make distinguished
figure in the modern catalogue of dis
easel could if my limits would per-
nit, and the occasion required, give
hundreds Of instances of persons who
have impaired the functions of the
stomach, and injured their general health
by the use Of Coffee-a few must suf-
fce Mrs. had acid eructatioDs,
ad-ach, constipation, cold hands and
feet, low spirits, and dry cough-aban-
doning the use Of Coffee, commenced
the cure, which was gradually perfected
by simple diet, Rye Coffee, sc. the head
before this prescription, had been shaved
and blis,ered for the injuries Coffee had
done to the stomach.
" Mrs. had headache and cho-
lie, she at length observed that Coffee
would not remain on the stomach, but
was eructed for hours after it was taken.
Exactly the same course as pursued in
the preceding case had precisely the
same result"
"Mr. at the age ofsixty, found
that Coffee passed his bowels unchanged.
The powers Of the stomach he disco. err
ed too late, had been quite destroyed by
it,"
Mrs. ---, who had used Rye COT
fee, for some weeks, and rather reluc.
family too, because she though, it too do
mesfic, and too cheap for a genteeltabl
and esho was unwilling to attribute her
improved health to means apparently SO
feeble, and having in them 50 little ofthe
parade of doctorship, had her hrejudices
suddenly removed by little incident
a friend came to visit her, whom she
could not treat with any thing that was
z -s--.i. .,,a ferA;en and by participat-
1ng with her guest in the use Of Coffee.
experienced such degree Of heart burn,
oppression at the stomach and head
ache, that she frankly avowed her deter
mination NOT to drink Coffee again un-
less Rye was not attainable.'
"Rye is an excellent article of food,
and Rye much, has long been celebrated