Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-09-28


al result. They become gay, and feel as
light and lively as though their stomach
was but partially. Or not at all replenish-
ed.
Thus we master the wise laws OF our
but not 1oithout injury. When
the first transilory effect of coffee has dis
the opposite condition, its final
effect, follows. The more striking was
Inc first, the more unpleasant is the latter.
It is true, every man does not experience
the same degree of injury from the mis-
use of medicinal beverage, like coffee.
Our bodies are so admirably framed. that
provided only we follow natural way of
living in other respects, some faults in cur
diet, if not too gross, are toleraby harm
less. On individuals who lead seden-
tarv lite, the effects of all drugs is far
stronger and more striking, than in robust
persons, accustomed to labor iE the open
air, who can often bear very injurious
things, without particular injury.
When the short period OF exalted, arti.
fetal, vital activity excited by coffee, is
over, yawning Incidence gradually
creeps over US, and greater inactivity
than usual; bodily motion becomes more
difficult than before, and the excessive gay.
ETY. OF the preceding hours changes into
dulness. If coffee al first filled the indi
vidual with agenial warmth, the artificial
spark gradually disappears, he becomes
chllly,and, the hands and feet grow cold.
All external objects are less agreeable
than before. He is more easily excited
to anger. A sort of easily pacifled gnaw-
ing hunger takes the place of the healthy
desire for food, and yet eating and drink
ing Cypress the stomach and head still
more. He has more trouble to gain sleep
than previously /; his sleep is duller than
when he was unacquainted with coffee,
and on awaklng he is more sleepy, ill-hu-
mored, and melancholy than usual.
But the renewed enjoyment ofthls inju-
rious palliative banishes all these COM
plants; new artificial life appears-for
a shorter period, however than the first
time. A repetition of the beverage be-
comes still otlener necessary, or it must
be made stronger, to have the effect of
stimulating life again for some hours.
Hence the frame of the sedentary liver
becomes still more enervate3. The injury
produced spreads too wide, takes root too
deeply, to be removed even by more sre-
qnent repetition Of the palliative, or by
stronger doses.
The skin generally becomes more SEN
sitive TO cold and even to fresh air; diges-
ton is more difficult; sleep ensues pain
fully, and affords little refreshment. On
Iawaklng, we are struck with dullness OF
the head, tocpor of the Imagination, slow
ness of recollection, elplessness of the
limbs, and a joylessness which makes
Gods lovely creation dark and comfortless
| 10 the eye,
| Il would be difficult for me to point out
1 all the mischiefs which prevail among
the votaries Of coffee, (sometimes under
] The name of weakness. sometimes of nerv-
Gus disorders and chronic diseases which
unnerye man, and make him degenerate
mentally and corporealiy But it must
not be supposed that all these mischiefs
occur in the same degree to every coffee
drinker One suffers more from one
symptom of its final effects, and another
from another symptom.
The teeth are not more speedily and
certainly rotted by any other error in die
than by INDUCING in coffee. Next te
grief, and the abuse of quicksilver, coffee
destroys the teeth most speedily. Close
air, aud overlooking the stomach, espe
cially at night, also contribute to it. Blu
coffee. is in Itself capable of destroying ir
a short time, or at least of making black
and yellow, this ornament of the mouth
this necessary organ of clear speech.
| Coffee has the most injurious effects or
children. Their complexion becomes
pale, their flesh faccd. Il is only aheI
a long time that they learn to walk, thei
gait IS toltering, they fail easily, and al
ways want to be carried. They desire
many various things, yet eat little. The,
are fearful and easily terrified There !,
a Iattling in the chest, from the phIegu
in the air passages Of the lungs. especiall,
during sleep. which no coughing removes
Usually, soon before going to bed, thew
experience redness and heat Of one or both
cheeks. They sleep but half toss abou
in the night often ask for drink, and cry
10 their sleep. They overcome all dis.
eases with difficulty, and their recovery
lis very slow and imperfect. They are
generally exposed to spreading inf ANNA
ton of the eyes, not unfrequenlly accom-
panied with an eruption ia the face. III
GERS which open slowly and lie deep, are
often the results of coffee alone.
| This inflammation of the eyes, rafting
10 the breast, and others OF the above-aam !.
ed complaints. attack even infants at the
breast, which partake Of nothing but the
mothers milk, 10 case the mother drinks
much coffee, besides breathing much con-
fined air. How wide-spreading, and pen.
Grating. must the injuriousness of this
beverage be, when even the sucking child
suffers from i'll