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who perceive no ill effects from its ufe. As an article of diet it 
is very generally drunk, and found, with very few exceptions, not 
only to be innocent but falubrious: to a ftomach opprefled with 
animal food a cup or two of ftrang Coffee affords confiderable 
relief, confequently it promotes digeftion ; this effect, and that of its 
obviating drowfinefs, are better afcertained than any other afcribed 
to this article. s 3 
A great variety of fubftitutes for Coffee has been recommended, 
which it would be unneceffary here to enumerate. The fa& is, that 
in moft farinaceous matter, on being roafted or burnt to that degree to 
which Coffee too frequently is, the peculiar fapid principle is totally 
_diffipated by the heat, and nothing but the more fixed part common 
to all remains. 
Two fpecies of Lonicera, viz. Periclymenum and Diervilla, or the 
common, and the yellow-flowered upright Honey-fuckle, and the 
Linnza borealis, or Two-flowered Linnza, belonging to the order 
Cymofz, have been ranked as medicinal plants; but they are not 
noticed in the Britith Difpenfatories, nor do they feem interefting 
enough to deferve particular attention. | 
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