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TEA, ;goFEFE AND Cocoa FOR THE: s4gM
Tso a,ssI Is q led sSl| b ''sg laIse
people, andsoo mdch' q sst asgiysn 10 t4s
''oklby foolish people. .Nfi'e",yoa sse.tlis
natural and, nlh,ostslniyersal st6ravng in
snslishsisk sof their "teas,F you caauOtzBut
feeft nature knows wbet she is about.
But a'little tea or cofeefestoressthem quite;
as mucl, as great deal. and a great deaf
Of tes," sndSespecially Of cnfee, isppairs. the,
little power Of digestion theys Bave.ss- Yst
the muse because she sees how one or two,
cups Of tcaier coffee restores her spatithtt
,,hinksalrat three.of: four viii do. twice s.as
much. This is not the case mt all; it is,
however certain that there is nothing yet
discovered which is u substitute to the Eng
lisb patient for his cup Of tea: he can take
itwhen he can take nothing else, and hc
often can take anything else. if he has it
not. should be very glad if any Of the
abusers- of tea would point out what to give
to anEnglish Patient after sleepIess night
instead Of tea. If you give it at five or six
o'clock in the morning, lie may even some
times fall asleep after it, and get, perhaps.
his only two or three hours sleep during the
twenty four. At the same time YOU never
should give tea or coffee TO The sick, rs a
rule after five o'clock in the afternoon
slceplessEess in the carly part of the nigh.
is from excitement, generally, and is in.
creased by tea or coffee sleeplessness whicl,
continues to the early n orning, is from ex
haustion, often, and is relieved by tea.-
The only English patients have ever
known refuse tea have been typhus case, ;
and the first sign of their getting better
was their craving again for tea. In gener-
al, the dry and dirty tongue always prefers
tea or coffee, and quite decline milk, unless
with tea, Coffee is better restorative
than tea, but a greater imparcr of digcs-
ton. Letthe' patients taste decide. You
will l.say thatsin cases Of great thirst, the
PatieAgs craving decides tl,ati it will drink
a.gfeat deal Of tea, and that you cannot
helpsit. But in these cases be sure that
thepatient requires diIuents for quite other
purposes than qucnching the thirst; he
wants argreat deal of some drink, not only
of tea, and The doctor will order that he is
to have barley:;water, or lemonade, or soda
Water and milk, as the case may be. Leh-
mann, quotedly DR.. Chrstson, says, that
among thewell and assiye "thc infusion Of
an ounce Of roasted coffee daily will dimin-
ish the waste going on in the body "by
one-fourtli;" and Dr.. Christison adds that
tea has the same property. Now, this is
actual experiment. Lehman weighs the
man and finds the fact from his weight
1t is not deducted fran any ''aualysis" of
food. All'experience among the sick shows
the same thing. Cocoa is often recon-
msnded to the sick in lieu of tea or coffee
1t is an oily, starchy nut, having no restor-
at'ye'powers at all, but simply increasing
Lcat. Its pure mockery of the sick, there
fore, 70 call it'a substitute for tea. For any
renoyatihg stimulus it has, you might Just
AS we'll offer them chestnuts instead of tea.
An n'al@ostuniyersakerror among nurses is
tl'e'bulk of the food, and especially the
drinks they offer to their patients. Sup
pose .spatienttordered four ounces of bran
dyiduring the day, how is lie take this if
you make it into four pints with sdiluting
i'll The same with tea and beef tea, with
arrowfoot; milk, etc. You bave not in.
creased the renovstiug power of these arti-
cles, by increasing their bulk; you have
very 1ikelydinjnish both BY giving tho
patients digestion morest do and most
likely of>a!L, tEs patient will leave half of
what he has 'besnsordered to take, becaus.
ne could not swallow the bulk with which :
pleased to invest it, It re.
qdirssvery NICE observationsand care (and
meets sish hardly amy iSt determine what
w'I'anae be teo .biskI or strong for ,has pa.
'ientto taN sShiiis giving him mo sihhore
thansthAg lctshe is able to-swallose
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