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benign restorer of the stomach, for that nausea, weakness, anl uisorderly conditiori, 

 which is brouj^hcon hy drinking btul fermented liquor, and ut-w ruirs, to excess, 



" In continued and remittinjr f.-vors in liot cHuiates, it ireciiiently happens, .,a*>.ihG 

 period when bark is ilidicated, tiiat the stomach cannot retain it. Tins is an eiubairass- 

 sueat of great im])oriance, in vvhiiii tJie practitioner iias a.n interval onivof afew hours,, 

 to decide on his patient' s.iate. Bai'k iiv substance is required to ansy.er the intention ; 

 and hercj as well asia-man}- eases of intermittents, wlien every other rnoile of adnii 

 iiisiering bark has proved abortive, coffee has been found an agreeable and a successful- 

 vehicle. In obstinate remittents, where a course of. bark iia* been long continued, it 

 seldom fails to inciea,se those ^-iscerai obstructions wh.ich are incidental to the disease 

 itself. To assist ike bark in its openuion, I have often used coffee ; and have known in- 

 stances where it jias removed sligbt intermittents ;. an i for i.hose obstructiojis, which' 

 the disease, orlxirk, or both,, frccp.icntly iea^e after them, and which patients are often 

 obliged to suffer, as the least evacuation brings ou a return or the fever,! have also re- 

 commended coffee to make a considerable portiun in the diet, with advanta.ge. Coffee 

 having the pr.o)>erty of promoting perspiration, it allays thirst and checks preternatu- 

 ral, hfiat> Sir John Char<:lin, when in Persia, civred himself of a bloody Hnx by drink- 

 ing four cups of hot coffee, and going to bed, and covering himself veil with bed 

 clothes. But this cure was occasioned by the perspiration it produced ; though he. at- ' 

 trilnitcd it to some specific quality in the coffee. 



" TJie great use of coffee in France is supposed to, haye abafed the prevalency of the 

 graveL In the French colonies, wJiere cotTee is more used than in the English, as well" 

 as in Tiirkey, where it is the principal beverage, not only the griavel, but the gout, 

 those tormentors of so.niany.of the liuman race, are scarcely known. 



" Du Four relates, as an extraordinarv instance of the effects of coffee in the gout, 

 the case of Prions. Deyerau. He says this gentleman was attacked with the gtnit at 

 twenty-five xearstof age, and had it severely until he was upwards of fifty, with chalk- 

 stones in thi2 joints of his hands and feet ; but for four years preceding, the accouat of 

 Ids case. beiiig given to Bn Four, to lay before tlie public,' he had been recommended ; 

 the use of coffee, M'hich he adopted, aud had no return of the gout afterwards. 



" Coffee has been found useful in quieting the tickling vexatious cougJi, that often 

 accompanies the smallpox and other eruptive fevers. A disli of strong coffee without 

 jnitk or, sugar, taken frequently in the paroxysm of some asthmas, abates the fit ; and 

 I -iiave often known it to remove the fit entirely. Sir John Flower, who had been af- 

 flicted with the asthma from the seventeenth year of his age, until he was upwards of' 

 fourrscore, found no remedy in all his elaborate researches, until the latter part of his 

 life, when he obtained it by coffee. 



" Prejjared strong anil clear, and sweetened agreeably with sugar-candy, and di- 

 luted, while hot, wuh a great portion of boiling milk, it becom.es an highly nutritious 

 and l)alsaigic diet; proper in such hectic and pulmonic complaints, where a rnilk diet, 

 is useful ; and is a great restorative to constitutions emaciated by the gout and other 

 chronic disorders. Nieuhoff, a German physician, in his account of the embassy from 

 Holland to China, in 1675, first described the advantage of milk coffee in pulmonic 

 complaints. 



'^ Mons. Monin, an eminentphysician of Grenoble, performed many extraordinarv 

 cures with it among consumptive people, when a milk diet, asses milk, and the air of 

 Montpelier, had proved ineffectual. He relates the following case of his wife ;' of 

 wliom, he says, * She had been m a cousumption for sixteen years, and was at ths 



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