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thus contracts, cannot be separated again, 

 even by roasting. 



The most eminent physicians of every 

 country have recommended the use of 

 coffee for various complaints. It greatly 

 relieves the head-ache, and is recommended 

 to those of constitutional weak stomachs, 

 as it accelerates the process of digestion, 

 takes away languor and listlessness, and 

 affords a pleasing sensation. 



Coffee is often found useful in quieting 

 the tickling vexatious cough. Sir John 

 Floyer, who had been afflicted with the 

 asthma for sixty years, was relieved by 

 strong coffee. 



The great use of coffee in France is sup- 

 posed to have abated the prevalency of the 

 gravel; for where coffee is used there as a 

 constant beverage, the gravel and the gout 

 are scarcely known. 



Voltaire lived almost on coffee, and said 

 nothing exhilarated his spirits so much as the 

 smell of it ; for which reason, he had what 

 he was about to use in the day roasted in 

 his chamber, every morning, when he lived 

 at Fernai. 



A friend writes me from Constantinople, 

 that many of the Turks will subsist almost 

 entirely on coffee, except during the rigid 



