Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-11-28


society, coffte is decidedly the worst
Londe, distinguished French writer on
health, classes coffee among the drinks which
stimulate, but Go not nourish. He ssys-'It
accelerntes the functions only by shortening
their duration. II doubles the cmergy of the
organs only by doubling the debility which fol.
lows CoGee.' he adds, should be used only
in those circumstances ia uhich ii is proper TO
use jermenied or spiriions liquors. Il is not
on account of its liquid condition, or it's high
temperature, but on account of its stimulating
without nourishing, that coffee. like tea, produ.
ces nervous affections.
Sinibnldi, on Italian medical writer of some
eminence. has the following remarks-'Tbe
commerce which we have opened with Asia
and the new world, in addition to the small pox
and other diseases, has brough, us a ne,o drink,
which ha. contributed most shockingly to the
destruction of our constitutional mean coffee.
II produces debility, alters the gastric juice,
disorders digestion. and often produces convul.
sions palsy of the limbs. and vertigo.
Lnnaus, in his 'Medcn! Botanical SYSTEM
represents coffee as being drying, exciting,
healing, expelling, carminatvc. Gure:c, anti
vencrsl and nnhelmin,c' He speaks of it,
moreover, as of known usefulness in that long
list Of nervous complaints. at the head Of which
stand hypochondrasis and hysteria. Surely II
such powers do not entile it TO the name of q
medicine-a narcotic poison too--I know not
what could.
Drs. Percival, Mulgrave and Miuengen. re.
commend coffee in cases pf asthma and the
latter, in speaking of it's medicin1l effects says.
it is liable to produce tevcrish heat, anxiety,
palpi,a,ons. trembling. weakness of sight, and
predispositon TO apoplexy. ..a
DIR. Grindal. of Russia, in hi. attendance a,
the hospital at Dorpnt--has used preparation
Of raw coffee in intermittent ievers. as q subst
tuie for Peruvian bark. with great success In
eighty cases. scarcely one resisted its power
The Encyclopedia Americana, in an article
which was probably written by DR.. Lieber. one
OF the editors, says, As a medicine, strong cof
psroxysms OF the asthma, is one OF the best re
medes; but it should be very strong.
DR.. Burdell, OF New York. has made many
/ curious experiments on small snimas, not only
with what he calls the extract Of coffee. Hs
says--'By experiments upon animols. ii ii
shown lha, there is more excitement Of tht
nervous system produced by coffee than by tea
but death does not cnsue as quickly.
The testimony of Mr.. Cole should mol be for
gotten. The learned surgeon believed coffe
to be liable to bring on all the diseased aclinl
which he referred TO tea !; so that in his vev
there is really coffee disease abroad, as wei
as n tea disease or rather, according to hin
coffee aud tea produce symptoms nearly th
: same. On this point shall say more present
ly.
DR.. lIahnemann, the father Of the lomGopa
thic system of medicine, and the anther OF a
essay on coffee, gives the following testimony
Coffee is strictly medicinal substance. A
medicines. in strong doses, hnve disagreeab'
eifcc, on the feelings of healthy person. n
one ever tailed to be disguised the first time b
smoked tobacco. No healthy palate ever ioun
strong coffee, without sugar, palatablo on III
; first trial.