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need much sleep. “They should shun Coffee as they would 
poison,” says a leading medical authority. But the infusion 
does much less harm in very cold climates, also in very hot 
climates, than it works in England, or in the temperate parts 
of America. Persons exposed to severe cold, even in this 
country, are the better for taking Coffee in moderation, and it 
does not then over-stimulate them. “ Cures have been wrought 
(Republic of Columbia) in the most severe cases of malarious 
fever, by using the husk of the Coffee bean, which will at times 
succeed where quinine fails. At first an infusion was made of 
the Coffee berry within the husk crushed together, and this was 
used with good results. Afterwards the infusion was made 
from the Coffee husk alone, with which some hundreds of cases 
were treated, a cure resulting in every case” (Lancet, October, 
1902). 
Coffee can also be taken in other ways, and in none 
better than in the form of jelly. “A clear Coffee jelly after 
dinner is every whit as good as the hot infusion, whilst free 
from the drawbacks of the latter; moreover, the astringent 
principles of the Coffee are thus neutralized by the gelatin, 
which is at the same time an admirable proteid sparer.”” 
Dr. Thudicum advises that it is preferable in making an 
infusion of Coffee to unite the. processes of boiling, and infusing : 
“Place the amount: of Coffee which it is intended to use (less 
about one-tenth of its bulk, which quantity is to be reserved) 
into the vessel in which the boiling is to be done, and pour over 
this the measured quantity of cold water; now heat it to boiling, 
and keep it thus for some minutes ; then take the vessel off the 
fire, and add to the liquid the reserved tenth part of the Coffee, 
and stir well in, but without boiling the mixture again ; let it 
stand for a few minutes, and then pour the Coffee on the filter 
(over a spirit lamp, if wishing it to be quite hot)—the liquid 
first, and the grounds last.” 
Cold Coffee infusion made overnight, though a comfortless 
drink at breakfast, will serve, if needed, as an energizing douche 
to sluggish intestines, and will stimulate an evacuation of the 
lower bowel promptly after the meal. Persons in Germany 
who drink strong, hot Coffee to excess suffer from migraine on 
waking in the morning, with loathing of food, intense headache, 
and continual sickness at the stomach. The desire is for 
darkness, whilst the hands and feet are cold; the pain seldom 
