Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-19
COFFEE AHEAD
On the List Of rheumatism Producers.

DR.. z. Chancellor of ST. Louis has re-
Gently made public his Investigations
on the dangerous properties of Uric
Acid in food and drink. Coffee heads
the list with 10 grains of Acid to the
pound.
Uric Acid is the chief cause of rheu-
matism and dangerous element to go
into the human stomach.
DR.. Chancellor is one of the many
physicians who have in the past few
years forbidden the use of coffee and
told the people why so often. Almost
everyone knows for instance that coffee
has the power of placing in the blood,
quantities of the little crystals of Uric
Acid these make rheumatism). The
sharp particles being driven in and out
of the heart hundreds of times a day
tend to injure the delicate valves and
bring on valvular heart disease, a COM
mon result of rheumatism.
Another element in coffee is caffeine,
a dangerous alkalOid that stimulates
for a few moments or hours and then
attacks nerves of stomach, heart, head,
kidneys and other organs.
1t generally prevents sleep, and head
aches frequently follow when the usual
time for taking the drug is past.
Every sane person knows the result
of any drug habit. first cup now and
then. next a cup every morning and the
drinker has become a slave and can't
quit without fight unless he uses
Postum
1t is miserable feeling of humilia-
ticn TO wakcn to the fact that you are
Il mean, covering slave to anything.
Coffee is useful drug in case of poi
soning but it should only be given.
like any other drug. under the advice of
a physician and for an especial purpose.
People who use d drug habitually be-
come not only slaves but fanatics on
the subject. How many coffee cranks
one sees and hears declaiming why
coffee never hurts me" and at the same
time perhaps limping with rheumatism
or unable to run a few steps or quick
ly mount Il pair of stairs without the
fiuttcr of poor weak heart or the
smothering sicliish feeling that so
plainly points to a Coffee Heart
Generally the coffee victim whom
coffee don't hurt is of bad COM
plexion. with coated tongue, foul breath
and With stomach and bowel troubles
and with something always on my
nerves and yet the poor mesmcrized
victim will insist that coffee don't hur;
me-" Perhaps some day he gets sick
enough (and he will in timc) to wake
W and see what is killing him. Then
comes the battle royal. Coffee acts like
Il vcritable slave driver of old and
forces it's slave deeper and deeper into
subjcction and misery. There is only
one easy way to break the habit and
get well and the reasons are that when
Postum Food Coffee is used instead of
th,, old kind one finds the deep seal
brown color which turns to a rich gold
on brown when cream is added. then
the flavor is that OF the higher and
mildcr grades of Java coffee, crisp and
delicious.
The change in feeling Of the cx-slave
is very marked and pronounced. Gen
orally within ? days the sleep becomes
peaceful and the old troubles begin to
back off and show signs Of DISAPPEAR
ms.
Ten days time brings q return Of
peace and some degree of comfort. n
sure sign that disease is going and
health coming in.
A perfectly natural and to be expect
ed result.
The damaging drug Withdrawn ard
its daily work of destroying nerves
ana good blood stopped. and the strong
rebuilding food elements OF Pos ium in
troduced to the human system means
quick repair Of the wonderful little cells
of soft srayish matter which make up
the Brain and Nerve centres all over
the body.
Coffee is a well defined destroyer of
these cells and offers nothing from
which to rebuild them. whereas Postum
has absolutely no destroying power
but is heavy with the very elements
Nature must have from which to do
this rebuilding. People do ruin Them
selves with coffee and tremendous
army of people have been helped back
to the land Of health and comfort by
Postum.
When one has "cnjOyed'' the rheu-
mo tism long enough and had all one
cares for of stomach. heart and other
nervous troubles and is tired Of the
muddy complexion. foul breath and
weak m;series of the coffee slave, Pos
tum offers a sure. easy way out of the
troubles. provided of course the coffee
abuse has not gone on long enough to
set up organic disease. The safest and
most comfortable way is to throw out
the drug that causes the daily misery.
I,oo,, for the miniature copy Of the
much read book. 1.-The Road to Well
yille'' iu each pkg. Of Postum.