Show USE OF COFFEE coffee has its uses uaea in food and mod cine aloe that can be made of considerably advantage to mankind but its ite abuse teem seem to be taken closer to heart to in the common method of utilizing it drink ink ing it in season and out of season owing to this fact an outcry is be ing raised railed against it by eminent medical wen men in both europe and america they declare unhesitatingly that the excessive use of the beverage Is ie the cause of chronic coffee polso poisoning ning that produces much more of the ilia 1118 of humanity than is generally supposed in medical language a prominent now new york physician says say the symptoms are usually confounded with the alcoholic disturbance because became coffee dys dyspepsia a bears a striking resemblance to per holic dyspepsia there is in the same disgust for food morning ex oration of mucus and marked anorexia this disgust for food increases in severe cases until the patient can only take coffee or bread soaked in coffee nausea follows and many of the other ills that flesh is heir to on the same bame subject dr menu of berlin gives the result of hla his investigation which has been very thorough in a community of coffee drinkers drinker under tile bis constant sant observation the wor working king women in and about essen he round found that many of those these women consume oyer over a bound of coffee a week them the leading symptoms of the ills that e filleted them were profound depression depre salou of spirits and frequent headaches and insomnia A strong dose of coffee would relieve them tor for a time when the ailment would ro re turn the muscles became weak and trembling and the hands shook shock when at rest the victims suffered so seriously that they dared cared not abandon the drinking of coffee for fear of death these theae results caused dr to come out emphatically against coffee as a beverage although he affirms its if value in medicine to which be believes it should be confined con floed he would have its use only under the direction of a physician who would know just what he be was doing and when to stop the doses dose |