Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-15
POWER MANUT SHELL
Governments, Physicians,
Scientists Interested in
an African Nut.
THE ESSENCE Of ENERGY
A Food Medicine Used by
Troops in Marching, by
Athletes and by lnvaiids.

In American army circles much interest
has been exhibited recently in the quail
tiles of an African nut, known botanically
as sterculia products of which are known
in this country as kolafra. This nut has
attracted wide attention III the scientific
world on account of its remarkable tonic
and sustaining powers. which enables
these who use it to perform physical tasks
otherwise impossible. Already the armies
of France and Germany have used the
product and have found that its extra
ordinary qualities have made it an inds-
pensable adjunct to their equipment.
The reports concerning this nut and It's
health. giving qualities by the most
famous Of German aud French physicians
and scientists, together with the success
scored in the use by the athletes of Yale
and other colleges, are forerunncrs which
herald its introduction as immediate and
general Certainly, if these recent reports
are trustworthy, the success of the article
is already assured
Its value To soldiers and athletes results
from the fact that il prevents fatigue and
increases muscular power enabling the
user to perform hard and painful task
With ease.
| superintendent Morgan, Of the Letter
| Carriers Division of the New York Post
Office, has recommended thorough test
of the extract by the army of letter
carriers of the New York Postnilice. In
accordance with Superintendent Morgan S
suggestion. John NJ. Parsons, president
of the Letter Carriers Association, has
| conducted tests which have been attended
with the most satisfactory results. Il
have tried Vino-kolafra. said Mr.
| Morgan, and have found 1t to be un-
| doubtedly good thing. We have letter
! carriers In the New York Postofflce en-
gagged In collection work who have To
| make eight trips II day, of sixty blocks per
| trip, or twenty four miles daily. These
| carriers have more arduous work To do ut
the present time than soldiers, and, there
| fore, Vino kolafra is Just the thing for
them. 1t is especially valuable for Letter
carriers with long routes, on account Of
Its sustaining properties, but, of course,
it is Of value to all who do any hard
| work. -
kolafra appears to he non intoxicat.
| ing stimuant, which differs from other
stim ulants in that IL adds mt once to the
SUN total of nervous force available for
mediate land perhaps wasteful) expen-
diture of energy drawn in advance from
what will be needful for the requirements
of tomorrow. In other words no reaction
attends It's use. 1t is cash deposit. no;
a discounted draft
| In the form of Vino Kolafra it con.
serves, not merely shifts energy; it be-
comes fly wheel to the human engine.
restraining the excessive action of the
superexcited and bringing the sluggish
up to normal speed.
| For this reason the medical journals are
recommending its use TO the weak, ex-
hausted and convalesoent. In addition.
it acts rs a prompt antidote to the effects
of alcohol ard satisfies the craving for
liquor, and for morphine, etc, wthou,
causing any Injurious effects
The same qualities render it useful to
the invalid The uses of Vino kolafra.
the most convenient form of preparing
the nut in order to preserve its full slim
ulant and tonic value, are indicated by
the following;
The New England Medical Monthly
states editorially; The medical profess
sion in these sections has long recognized
in it great aid in performing feats ni
labor, tests of strength, or sustaining life
In disease. Aside from its value to the
brain and muscle worker it is invaluable
In the sckroom; 1t helps tide over the
crisis in disease and sustain the strength
| of disease ey hausted system. In shocks
due to accidents, traumatism, operations
syncope or fright it Is of great value, and
will prove the surgeon friend AS well as
the physicians. In nervous prostration
and nervous irritation it Is of uestlmable
value. 1t is etlicacious in cardiac affec-
tions, especially smokers heart
The Quarterly Therapeutic Review says
of the sterculia botanical name) nut:
1t is said to remove directly the stupidity
and unsteadiDess of drunkenness 1t is an
excellent nerve tonic and will enable
man to go without food and support great
| fatigue for twenty four hours or more.
| 1t is wonderful tonic and stimulant.
| When used regularly, sleep is sound and
restfnl, while feeling of brightness and
activity is prevalent during the waking
hours 1t Is a cardiac and cerebral slim
uiant. In inigraine and nervous head
| aches it has been repeatedly proved to be
| beneficial. Its results in the treatment of
neurasthenia, diarrhma and seasickuess
| have been good. In torpidity of the liver
| IL exc1tes that organ and accelerates the
flow of bile In indigestion 1t promotes
alimentation by dissolving the mucous
| clots and removing debris from the in
| testines. In short, it Is the safety valve
OF bodily mechan ism, preservinglcand
restoring energy and utilizing tissue
waste. In this respect 1t differs vastly
from all other beverages and stimulants
In that it preserves latent energy, obtain
ing its powers by utilizing the waste of
solid tissue matter
DR.. B. Smith. president of the
Wayne County Medical Society, saws:
1t augments the secretion of the diges
tive fluids. 1t helps ia overcoming the
indigestion common to drunkards. and is
of exceptional value in delirium ire
mems.
Professor Edouard Heckel. of the Paris
Medical Faculty, says: "This seed is an
intestinal tonic without parallel. Ii is
the greatest castro intestinal tonic In 1t
the therapeutic arsenal can place In the
hands OF its practitioners - He recon-.
mends its use in tubercrlar diarrbu,.
where there is intestinal liberation.
General Alexander Stephen, British
Consul at Bahia, Brazil, in comparing
the physical merits of the West African
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