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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
[July i, 1891. 
of a biHcuit and confectionary iu fine roomy apart- 
meiitSf which became the usual resort of eveu people 
of rank and station. 
{Some of the t'aculty in France have hkevriBe 
written against ooffto, to wit, Mr. Dmioaii, Phy- 
sician of Montpellier whoso work against Col!-e, 
Chocolate and Tea wos printed at Kotterdam in 1705, 
and Mr. Hecquet Physician at Paris, who>e iiltk* 
work entitled “ The disponsing with Faats ' was 
printed at Paris in 1705, and Mr. Andry. who wrote an 
answer to it entitled '*Tho maiiitenanco or nph bi- 
iiig of Pacts” which was iu favor of Cotfee, lu 1710 
a similar disemaiou tcok place in Lfttiu at VaUntia, 
which was pnblished in tho Daiiphino. 
As Cuffee was Introduced into France from tho 
Levant, it seems prohable.^ that mnoh about the >amo 
time belween 1070 and lObO it became known lu 
Kiigiand, capecial-y in Loudoui from which place, after 
some years, it was cairied over to Holltud, tiist to 
AiuBturdam, Uotterdam, tliu lUgue and DordtecUt 
and Budseqaently to all tlie otSor Towus, yi.a to thu 
very iliresliolda of tho Peaamts with whom Ooll'ec 
liko Tea, haJ now hoc >m6 so c inmon a beverage. 
There woro aome iu line Country too, w ho at the vi ry 
bi ginuiug, liko the Oppositiouiets iu AiaMa. Cairo, 
and Oouetauliuoplo wero v. hemonlly oppo»ed to tho 
uso of Coffee, rei oratiug all ttie reasons which worO 
ailviiucod by the French ThyaitiauB b. fore alluded (o. 
llelvolins the venoiable Geinmii Physciau ol the 
Raaue wrote a little work iu oppeBiti m to this popular 
upiZien, hut it never saw the light. The oelohnved 
I'hisioiau Boult koe also wrote « small work lu which 
he pomted out very cloariy the utility and beiicllcial 
effects ol thiH beverage upon hetltli. This led to a 
more extensive use of it, so that lhare is now scarotly 
a house of any t spectiLility whore Coffee is not re- 
gulailv taken lu the nuriiiugs, not to speak of tho 
great iiumhet of Coff- e-housea which have Binoo been 
asta.liaheil in all tho streets of llollaml and which are 
R^umite n^ by Merchant, and Foi eigne, s, hut, 
now and then, by eveu the Itulers of ihc phoe who 
enjoy the beverage iu sp-cial apartments, dhese housi B 
aro hoB.des, situated so veiy close to the exo isuge, 
that they likcWiBO afford an opportunily to the 
Merchants to meet and talk to each other, whilst sipping 
their C.ffeO, ou Comme c al ailairH. 
Indeed ilia practice of lakiiig CjHoo has been carriod 
to such lougtUBheie, that Ladies and tlonll men even 
after they had sinupiuously entertained their ftieuds 
at dinner psrtiea, imagine that iheir hospitality is 
■ 1 , complete if they omit, tho’ it he near imdinght to 
odor them aUish of O.ffce, which is aUays diuiik with 
‘^'we'conMscatcel, passthe street of ‘be Town without 
nni oinir the uumber » f houhoa Where Oi«u 0 ana Ti a 
are rold- a clea'’ “‘at tli s trade 
has in suite of ail torraor opinions become uiioommouly 
exloiiBivr nor ato there Physiuia.iB to bo found who 
tho’ over .0 olevet, woiilil not atsiid up a, advocates 
for tho moderate uho of Iho drmk. 
The only nasonal le ol'i-ictinn that coubj bemadoto 
thruse of 'Fea and Coffee is the groat injury and loss 
which is experienced by the br« wora ot Keer. 
Again there aro many who make nao of some strong 
drink (die slerken drank drinken) immediato y alter their 
Coffee' and 'i'ea to BOive as a Uiuretiok us they call 
it Ibis is certainly a very pernicious practice, but 
this Bhonld not thi refute provent a modern to use of 
(C-eo by llio more abten.ioua olasa of people. One 
the same way easily abuse tue most whole- 
„. ,.l,vsio which would ctliorwise he bencecial to heal b 
i?rea and eeasons. So it is with Coffee. 
,, , „i.„ still worse is, that many common piople 
whose oonditiO spend tuo much ol tlieir time in 
dnnk"rc:ffef»nd Va- “ the great pro- 
^ndice of thmr calling, and. the latter to the detriment 
and iuoonveiiieuoe of tlicir mabterH and mistresncs 
Thus son’ll perceive that I have wished to say of 
the Ooilie Tree, iU Iruit, and its u-e in oom.cction 
with tlio trade of Mocha, and 1 shall now rloso this 
Chapter of the Company’s TtausnctioiiB, in order to 
ptooeed on with “i® »2aiis of I’etsja. 
The learned Historian thus closes his iuteiostiug 
chapter ou GctYee aud proceeds to give an account 
uf Fers n. Had we time we would tullow him to the 
land of Ferdousi aud Hahz whore the Moon shines 
as bright as the Sun at noonday, and listen in 
raptures, to the nightly serenadera who walk the 
Btretts of lsp»hnn. But te “loturu to ouc muttons’* 
— It would 1 think, bo a very prohtable task if rome 
of yonr clever Flmtiug frieudtf would take up the 
subject where Valentyu leit it off and bring the 
Hisiory of (JofTco down to the present time, when 
tbe cuUivAtiou of it euems to have attained a high 
htate Ol perteotioo. 
Yab ntju appears to have taken conaiderable pains 
to traoo out, atop by step, iho inauuor iu which 
(jotfje was gradually iniroduced into Hurope; and, 
aoiougat other cuiioas facts mentioned by him, as 
already ubscivod, is tho prep^raiiiii of a kind of 
beverage reHeiiiblioK Beer from the Cotlee husk or 
shell. Perhaps some of your onterpnsiug fiiemls 
who are verbed iu tho iu>Bteries ol Coffee planting 
and aru intimatily acquainted with all the uses to 
W'hich Coflce may bo applied, may be disposed, tw- 
proviny u^>oh this idea-, to tr> the expeiiuient ; and I 
wish them every Buccess. 
The imperfect translation, which you have been 
good enough to publi^h, is the production of a few 
leisure hours ; aud if it has, in any smdil degree 
Ci’UtribtUeU to the amuBcmcnt of your readers, any 
little trouble to which 1 may have been put, is amply 
rapid. 
If i liappen to stumble upon any similarly in- 
teiebticg passages iu old Dutch Authors, 1 may per- 
haps at home future period, trouble you for a corner 
of your valuable paper. Aud now fatewcH, doxr Sir, 
and believe me, 
Year’s truly. 
P. B, 
Colombo, StptemberPi, 1856. 
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NOTES ON POPULAR SCIENCE. 
Bt Du. J. K. Taylor, v.l.s., k.o.s., &c., 
Editor OF “Scienck Oossip.” 
An Italian experiiudr.tcr has found that sunlight 
exercises a deotdod influeuce upon mtcro-or^unisms. 
Stoiig hunligbt is both deleterious an: alenliMiig to 
their growth and development, and eveu diffused light 
hab a laLarwiog action upon th m. Ihe ater lising action 
of«».nligUt WAS inoftt powt-rlully experienced when ihe 
sui.’h rays f< U perpendicalut ly upon the suiface of tho 
tuodiuiu iu which the micro-orga.usms were being cuU 
tivatod. 
There is a fttshlou iu scientitio research just as there 
id iu bouuets and walking sticks. Jit>t now everj thing 
is al out ysm5— microbes, luicro-organisms, baefena, 
bacilli, <&c., as nearly all Ihebame things are dificreutly 
Culled. One feds surprised they were uev'er discovered 
belore. Now that we have di.*»coTered them, we don’t 
know what to do w.tU them, except to grow them 
artificially as if their natural growth was not Bufhoieut. 
Dr. Dwlaii has just pablisheit a little book ou Vasteur 
and RabieSt in which h« practica ly ansorts that Paateur 
has created more rabies tbau he nns curoJ. Prolesbor 
XCoch’s **Umph” seems to be very much a modern 
revival t-f the meditvikl uyua viUt notion — so far as 
preserving consumptives from speedy death goes. The 
idta is based ou the physical changes iu the blood 
eiwironment ot mioiobes. 
8troug coffco is now taid to be a germicide* A Dr. 
Luderwitz states he has proved this to bo tho case. Ho 
shows that cortain raicrocuuoi die iu a 10 per cent, solutiou 
of cofieu. Tho bacilli of typhoid fover died in two or 
three clajs under the same treatment, and the cholera 
bacillus in three or (our lijurs. The adult germs of 
apl nio fever, or anthrax, endured the solution for 
only two or throe hours, although the spure.s, or young 
germs, survived there n for th ee or four weeks. Where 
a 30 per cent, solution of cofieo was used the typhoid 
germ perished iu one day, and Ilia cholera geim in 
from hult-au-hour to two hours. Ho found that the 
owltivatiop medium of bacterial organwins (gelatine) iti 
