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mixed with honey. In a short time the animal began to 

 improve rapidly, eventually becoming better than ever. 

 The same treatment was afterwards tried with like suc- 

 cess in many similar cases where the horses had been 

 over-worked or lost their strength and appetite. 



It has been affirmed that coffee and other substances 

 containing the alkaloid Caffeine have a direct influence 

 in retarding the waste of tissue matter in the human 

 frame, a single cup of the liquid prepared from a quarter 

 ounce of coffee, containing from 1.5 to 1.9 grains of 

 Caffeine in the infused state. The moderation of tissue 

 waste attributed to coffee in common with other articles 

 having the same general action and in use among 

 different nations, is proven by various well-established 

 facts. In its primary operation it agrees with those 

 stimulants in exciting mental and muscular activity as 

 well as cheerfulness, while in its after effects it does not 

 tend to produce narcotism or stupor, only that unsteadi- 

 ness of mind and of the spinal functions which denotes 

 exhaustion. 



It has been the custom at frequently-recurring periods 

 for moralists and scientists to claim that coffee is injuri- 

 ous to the health of its votaries, and many coffee drink- 

 ers believing such statements give up its use regretfully. 

 That its use or rather its abuse may be injurious in some 

 instances cannot be denied, but of all beverages now in 

 use the facts and effects prove it to be the least injurious 

 of any and all when not indulged in immoderately. 

 Taken in moderation it is both a mental and physical 

 stimulant of the most agreeable and pleasant nature, 

 being followed by no harmful reaction. It produces con- 

 tentment of mind, allays hunger and bodily weakness, 



