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Both the outer pulpy part of the berry, and the inner membrane 
immediately invefting the feed, are prepared for ufe by the Arabians; 
the former is much efteemed, atid conttitutes the Coffee 4 /a Sultane: 
the latter is chiefly employed by the common people, and fold under 
the name of Ki/cher:* The feeds ufed by us, and which by the Arabians 
are thought too heating, are principally imported into Europe from 
Yemen, where the Coffee is moft abundantly cultivated; they are 
fmaller than the other kinds produced in the Colonies, of a yellow 
hue, and more grateful in tafte and odour. The manner of foafine 
and preparing Coffee for ufe is too well known to require being de- 
tailed here ; we hall therefore “gee to confider its effects of the 
human body. ate 
From various experiments jafituted by Dr. Parcival upon Coffee, 
be infers. that this beverage ‘‘ is flightly aftririgent and antifeptic ; 
** that it moderates alimentary fermentation, and is powerfully feda- | 
‘* tive. Its ation upon the nervous fyftem probably depends on the 
*¢ oil it contains; which receives its flavour, and is rendered mildly 
«* empyreumatic ‘by: the procefs of roafting: . The medicinal qualities 
“* of Coffee feem to be derived from the grateful fenfation which it 
‘* produces in the ftomach, and froth the fedative powers it exerts on 
“* the vis vita. Hence it affifts digeftion, and relieves the head- 
** ach; and is taken in large quantities with peculiar propriety by the 
<t Turks and Arabians, becaufe it counteraéts the narcotic effeéts of 
** opium, to the ufe of which thofe nations are much addi@ed. In 
© delicate habits i it often occafions watchfulnefs, tremors, and many 
** of thofe complaints which are denominated nervous. It has been 
** even fufpected of producing palfies; and from my own obferva- 
** tion, I fhould apprehend not entirely without foundation. Slare 
¢¢ affirms that he became. paralytic by the two liberal ufe of Coffee, 
** and that his diforder was removed by abftinence from that liquor.” 
Dr. Percival cites a letter. ftom Sir John Pringle, who afferts that 
ftrong Coffee is the moft powerful remedy,with which he is en 
in abating fpafmodic afthma. | : 
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f See Efays, vol, ii, 
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