Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-10-04


ant feeling of existence, a lower degree Of VITALITY
a kind Of paralysis Of the animal, natural, and Vi
tai functions.
When person, unaccustomed to coffee. drinks
a moderate quantity of it, one accustomed to it.
an immoderate quantity, his individuality the SEN
saon of his existence, of his vitality is for several
succeeding hours, more lively His pulse beats
fuller, quicker, but softer His presence of mind,
his faculty of attention and sympathy are more
lively than in the healthy, natural condition All
external objects wear a sort of pleasing color, or
varnish of JOY, and, if the quantity was uncom-
monty large, an almost painful briiancv For
the first few hours, satisfaction with himself and
with all external objects is radcnt in the coffee
drinker and this especially was what promoted
coffee to the rank of Il social beverage
After the close ofour days labor, we must, in
the course of nature, become weary; an unpcas-
ant sense ofexhaustion in our powers of body and
mind compels to seek necessary rest But this
discomfort aud Incidence disappears at once before
this medical beverage, and an artificial liveness
a wakefulness in defiance of nature, makes its APP
pearance.
We require nutriment in order to live. and ma
ture compels us to seek it by the gnawng, painful
feelings Of hunger and thirst We drink coffee
and lo we feel little or nothing of these painful
sensations. True cotfeedrinkers, especially wo-
men, who are deprived of the advantage of rsov-
ering from time to time, from the ill effects dRhs
beverage, by exercising in the open air, know lit
tie oftrue hunger and thirst The body is cheated
out of its food and drink, and the vessels of the
skin are forced against nature to imbibe as much
moisture from the atmosphere as is required for
the absolute necessary purposes of life.
The benefcent Preserver of all living beings
caused in the healthy individual unpleasant feel
ings, on motion after being satlaed with food
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of body and mind in order that the important task
ofdigestion might begin undisturbed. Coffee does
away this oppressed feeling, this heaviness ofmind
and body Refined jewellers drink it immediate
ly after meals, and attain, in great degree, this
unnatural result They become gay, and feel as
light and lively as though their stomach was but
partially, or not at all replenished.
Thus we master the wise laws of our nature
but not aoittout injury When the first transito-
ry effect ofcofee has disappeared, the opposite con-
dition, its FINAL effect follows The more striking
was the first, the more unpleasant is the latter
Its TUE, every man does not experience the same
I dsssscS Of INJURY from the misuse OF medicinal
beverage, like coffee Our bodies are so admira-
bly, framed that provided only we follow natural
way of living in other respects some faults in our
Diet not too gross, are tolerably harmless On
individuals who lead sedenary life the effects Of
! all drugs is far stronger and more striking than
in robust persons, accustomed TO labor in the open
air, who can often bear very injurious things, with
: oat partic1lar injury.
j. When the short period of e&altll, artificial vi
r tai activity, excited by coffee, is over ynwnng
S Incidence gradually creeps over us, and greater
inactivity than usual; bodily motion becomes more
difficult than BEFORE and the excessive gayety o
the preceding hours changes into dullness, l
coffee at first filled the individual with genia
warmth, the artificial spark gradually disappears
he becomes chilly, and the hands and feet grow
" cold All external objects are less agreeable thar
before He more easily excited to anger.
sort Of easily-pacifed gnawing hunger takes tn,
II place of the healthy desire for food and yet eating
u , and drinking Cypress the stomach and head still
X more He has moro trouble to gain sleep thai
,, previously; his sleep is dullcr than when he wa
}, unacquanted with coffee, and on awaking he
"a more sleepy, ll-humored, and melancholy thai
usual.
lie Butt the renewed enjoyment ofthis injurious pa
D. liative banishes all these complaints; a new art
he fetal life appears-for shorter period, however
,e than the first time. A repetition of the beverag
n becomes still otener necessary, or it must be mad
n stronger, to have the effect of stimulating life agai
re for some hours. Hence the frame of the sedenti
N ry liver becomes still more enervated The init
e' ry produced spreads too WIDE takes root too deel
tn ", to be removed even by more frequent repet
eS ton of palliative. or by stronger doses.
40 The skin generally becomes more sensitive
cold and even to fresh air digestion is more diff
ot cult sleep ensues painfully, and affords little T
mi freshmen On awaking, we are struck with dul
Is ness of the head, torpor of the imagination sloy
ness of recollection, helpessness of the limbs, al
III a ioylessness which makes Gods lovely create
ef- dark and comforcss to the eye
ne 1t would be difficult for me to point out all Il
ed mischiefs which prevail among the voaries
ng coffee sometimes under the name of wealSne;
. sometimes of nervous disorders and chronic disea
on esq which unnerve man, and make him degcn
'le rate mentally and corporeally. But it must n
re- be supposed that all these mischefs occur in Il
same degree in every cofee-drnker One sufe
I'll more from symptom of its final effects and a
ICE other from another symptom.
M The teeth are not more speedily and certain
ey rohed by any other error in dict than by indul
Die ing in coffee. Next to grief and the abuse
cir quicksilver, coffee destroys the teeth most speed
Use Close air and overlooking the stomach especial
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