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js strongly exemplified by the immediate effect produced 

 on taking it when the stomach is overloaded with food, 

 or nauseated with surfeit, or debilitated by intemperance, 

 or languid from inanition. In vertigo, lethargy, catarrh, 

 and all disorders of the head, from obstructions in the 

 capillaries, long experience has proved it to be a powerful 

 medicine : and in certain cases of apoplexy, it has been 

 found serviceable even when given in clysters, where it 

 has not been convenient to convey its effects to the 

 stomach. Mons. Malebranche restored a person from 

 apoplexy by repeated clysters of coffee. 



" Du Four relates an extraordinary instance of the effect 

 of coffee in the gout : he says, Mons. Deverau was at- 

 tacked with the gout at twenty-five years of age, and had 

 it severely until he was upwards of fifty, with chalk stones 

 in the joints of his hands and feet : he was recommended 

 the use of coffee, which he adopted, and had no return of 

 the gout. 



" A small cup or two of coffee, immediately after 

 dinner, promotes digestion. With a draught of water 

 previously drunk, according to the eastern custom, 

 coffee is serviceable to those who are of a costive habit/' 



The generality of English families make their coffee 

 too weak, and use too much sugar, which often causes it 

 to turn acid on the stomach. Almost every housekeeper 

 has a peculiar method of making coffee ; but it never can 

 be excellent, unless it be made strong of the berry, any 

 more than our English wines can be good, so long as we 

 continue to form the principal of them on sugar and 

 water. When coffee is used as a breakfast beverage, we 

 would strongly recommend it to be served in the manner 

 of the French Cafe au Lait: with a small pot of very 

 strong coffee, they send a large jug of boiling milk, and 

 it is generally used from about one-fourth of coffee, to 

 three-fourths of milk; thus you get nourishment from 



