The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-23

exceeding its exhilarating properties.
1t enables those who use it to remain
a long time without food, as soldiers
are. often obliged to do in time of war.
1t also decreases the sensibility to ply
sical discomforts.
To Get the Best Results.
Its best results are obtained when it
is mixed with an equal quantity of
pure cream or milk, which forms an
alimentary drink containing all the
elements of good food. with the addi-
tional stimulating effect on the mind
and nervous system. Many people
have an idea that strong coffee is in
furious and that it should be made
weak. This is a mistake. Weak cof-
fee is bad as it contains no nourish-
ment, distends the stomach with liquid
and prevents digestion. 1t should al
ways be taken warm. Iced coffee, like
all other iced drinks, is injurious.
While coffee should never be taken
in the place of food. as it is some
times by the poorer classes, rich cafe
au lait, with bread, makes a good and
sufficiently substantial breakfast for
people of sedentary occupations. No
other meal, however, should be COM
posed of either tea or coffee with bread
alone.
Coffee is especially drink for adults
of sedentary habits. rather than la
boring people or children, as its stitnu
lating effect on the mind and imagina-
ton is not required by the laborinE
man. and is decidedly harmful to the
growing child. Children should not
be INDUCED in even so mild a stimulant
as coffee for the activity of their little
brains more than Keeps pace with the
growth of their bodies. Whatever tends
to excite, to render irritable, or to de-
velop unduly the cerebral structure of
children is of necessity injurious.
The use of coffee. like that of every
other blessing, may be abused. There
is no doubt that excess in coffee drink
ing may give rise to many evils. To
say at lust what point excess begins
would be extremely difficult for any
physician. as it is not the quantity
taken, but the peculiar susceptibility
of the person, which is the direct cause
of the injury. Women are generally
more susceptible to excess in coffee
drinking than men. and the suscepti-
bility of the system changes with in
creasing age.
Among the troubles either produced
or aggravated by the excessive drink
ing of coffee are insomnia, dizziness,
govt, acid dyspepsia, kidney trouble,
biliousness and palpitation of the heart.
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are not manifestly due to other causes.
the person suffering would do well to
abstain from drinking coffee for a few
weeks Instead of stopping abruptly,
it is better for one who has the coffee
habit to gradually decrease the allow
ance from day to day during a week or
two. In cases of insomnia caused by
coffee, the effects of leaving it off are
generally immediate, though it takes
from a month to six weeks for the sys-
tenn to recover.
There are several uses to which coffee
may be put, aside from that as a bev-
erage. As a deodorizer it has few
equals, and few grains of burnt coffee
passed through a sick room will per
ceptibly purify the air 1t is also of
value in the dressings of. cancers and
all manner of sores. For this purpose
fresh ground. powdered coffee should
always be used.
The peculiar Odor left by rats may be
gotten rid of by scattering ground cof-
fee about the floor of a room which has
been invaded by them, and leaving it
for ten or fifteen minutes.
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