Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-12-08
Coffee as q Medicine.

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In recent times coffee has been con-
sidered not as an article Of food but
partly as spice and partly as kind OF
medicine. Spice it is, iuasmuch as it
causes like many other spices, the stom.
ach to secrete an increased quantity OF
gastric juice. Digestion only takes
place when the sides Of the stomach Sc
crete = liquid having the quality Of d.
gesting food. owingto this, weli-to-do
people take after dinner a cup of coffee
in order to promote digestion. Ii is be.
cause at night the power of digesting
is very much enfcebled-hence the
bad sleep after one mas eaten some-
thing difficult TO digest, and because
the stomach is relaxed and inactive,
that a cup Of coffee in the morning re-
freshes and stimulates the coats of the
stomach, and causes there renewed
yigor and activity. 1t is common OBJ
servation, that more appetite is felt
after coffee than before IT. So much
for the importance Of coffee as spice,
Very Justly we ascribe to coffee also a
medicinal influence; we consider it a
medicine for our mental activity, and
for tho activity Of the nerves.
1, is well known that at night coffee
dispeis fatigue. and that by the use of
strong coffee, sleep may be banished
for u long time. And more. those that
are busy mentally. often feel a fresh.
inyiSorating impulse after the enjoy
ment OF coffee. When fatigued with
work. they make It means TO recruit
their strength. For similar reason,
coffee can animate conversation. When
we meet elderly ladies in society. and
notice them sitting quisly and talking
but in monosyllables. we need not he
surprised; they have had no coffee yet,
But when. after n little, conversation
flows with full force like rapid stream
ofwater. we may from this safely recog-
niye the mighty influence of coffee; it
has loosened not only the tongues. but
more, the looks, the hands. nay the
whole body and the whole soul. AL
though the mind has rested during the
night. we feel in the morning des,rous
of stimulating our nervous system with
a cup of coffee. preparing, rs it were,
our mind for the days work. A mod
ern naturalist. as genial as he is learned,
Molcschott. ascribes the lately increased
consumption of coffee TO the greater
degree of mental activity. which life in
former times did not require to such
high extent as our present age.
We have now sufficiently explained
the need of coffee drinking and we
must confess that all we have said here
does not in the least affect our convic-
ton that. according 10 Liebig. coffee is
also nutritiye. And no one can help
believing this who has seen how old
people s'Ibsist on but very little food.
providing they can have plenty OF COT
fee. The objection raised that il
should be better for these persons to
take the nitrogen contained in coffee in
the form of meat. is correct, but, on the
other hand We must stop To ask whether
meat would be good tor the stomach
at all such times as cup of coffee is?
This would certainly not be the case
early IN the morning; and il in the cof-
fee we enjoy a beverage which gives. us
nutriment, strengthens the stomach
and at the same time stimulates our
mind. we have good reasons to rever-
ence the instinct Of man which raises
coffee to an essential means of subsist-
enee. and discovered its beneficial in
fiuence long before il WAS done by
science. -Berastei.is Popular Science.
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