| Show USE OF TEA AND COFFEE leading medical men in europe and A merica america are fast reaching the conclusion long recognized io in theory at least by most moat of the people of biah that tee and coffee are medicines not ds arid and if drunk at all should be used as druyts in definite and carefully prescribed donee rod and not as common keve leverages rAges the subject ins in a recent article modern medicine men tlona is series of facts that RO go to up bold the view that medicinal asels uee ia the only one justifying the drinking of tea nod and coffee which can be taken safely only iq io limited quantities it refers to the injurious effects deflects their use ra KB a beverage has baa upon digestion and cites that caffin caff caf foin in the active principle in teat tea and coffee IN ie nothing lees aban a strong stimulant which being added to day after day in the human body by daily drinking impregnates the system with a deadly poison upon the same subject the last jesse issue of the literary divent has bag a translation from the medical week which tells tella of the recent careful study of two french physicians drs gaboe and gilles de Touret lf who have made their report to the society 0 of the hospitals of parts parle in which chronic intoxication by these beverages beverage especially coffee is dealt with at great length the re port says caffell dyspepsia resembles closely gt gastritis being characterized by phlegm in the morning pain in the region with radiation toward the back coated tongue distaste for solid food etc eio the most important symptoms however involve the nervous system there is insomnia or sleep is accompanied by frightful dreams when the patient stands upright be suffers from a sensation of emptiness of the head and frequently from vertigo in addition the muscles of the calf and thigh are affected by painful al at tacks attacks of cramp especially at night which contribute toward making sleep impossible begar illg the cure for these troubles lea it Is said the tb symptoms disappear with the ce cessation mation of the use of the beverage being much less persistent than those of poisoning the individual who is best beat off however to is the one who does not invite III ills of the charac ter referred to by a habit as unnecessary as it is injurious |
