The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-03-31
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10 ovet>roast them.
The peculiar principle Of coffee is the
cailein, which was discovered by Robi~
quel in 1921 il is a very active princi,
pie, and affects the urinary organs. Wa
ter saturated with coffee was first used
BY Grindal, in the Russian hospital of
Dorpai, in the treatment Of intermittent
fever; it was also given as a powder raw.
In eighty cases, not one resisted lis cf-
lects. Homeopathic practitioners also
use it with success.
As an article of diet, and as a bever-
age coffee has become qnite n favoriie,
if we may Judge from the quantity con-
sumed, No less than I5I,0S2 sos
pounds were imported into the United
State in 1850 the value Of which was
Sll,2I5, 5,096. No country in the world
consumes so much coffee in proportion
to its inhabitants, as ours. Thus, last
year, the average amount Of coffee con>
sumed BY each man, woman, and child,
was over seven pounds. The consump,
ton Of coffee has greatly increased in
England and II does not appear that the
fears of the old English matrons, about
their sons becoming monkeys by its use,
are yet realized.
Coffee is now very generally used by
all Europeans, as well as the old Turks,
aud in almost all American families, for
a breakfast beverage, lis effects upon
the human system may be peculiar, but
general use has not yet developed any.
thing extraordinary produced by it, ex-
cept it may he the healthy appearance
aud rugged strength of some French
miners, who use it IN large quantities
This fact was brought before the Acad.
emy Of Sciences in Paris, last year. III
some armies and navies, coffee ha:
been wisely substituted for grog. Ii
would be well if this were the case in
every single instance. In cold weather
coffee is an agreeable and safe stmulant
, 1t was noticed that those French soldier.
who had saved some coffee and suga
during the terrible retreat from Moscow
; stood the cold much better than thos,
, who had none. Coffee affects the nerve
, Of some people in most singular man
I ner, by making them tremble aud fever
A ish. No person so affected should us,
it. AS general thing, for almost eve
. ry person, we believe it is a healthy AM
e pleasant beverage. In England, all ih
coffee is adulterated with yellow docl
q root, ground up along with the bean:
The law allows oflhis adulleralion, an,
! yet, for all this, the coffee there sells 70
about double the price il does in the U
=, nited STATES.
~ Every family should buy their ow
beans, and roast aud grind them, 70
much of our ground coffee is also adu
, terated with roasted corn aud peas
These adulterations are not the least VI
healthy but there is no earthly use {
anybody paying for cora instead of col
=, fee; aud if anybody wishes TO adulter
:, ale their own coffee, why, they can do
D., TO suit themselves.
When we reflect upon the great quar-
tity Of coffee now consumed by US eve
:, ry year, how that the consumption hu
increased from little over four million
" Of pounds in 1870, to over one hundre
- and fhy.four millions of pounds
1850, we cannot shut our eyes To lh
seeming necessity of growing coffee i'
- ourselves.
Our Southern States can surely raj.
good coffee. They beat The world IL
cotton aud rice, both of which were II
troduced from foreign countries; on
y coffee, we think, can be as successful
;, cultivated as these have been.-Scie,
u Hfc American.