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UVEUG:IS.'W&ter ;-
if
it
contains
chicory,
the latter
siBb
·*'.
the.
bottom
and
stains the
~water
of
a deep
red
tint.
The-
presence
o(niast,ed
corn
is
not
so
read–
ily
detected by
unpi-ofessional
persons, but
it
may
be immediately
discoTered
by
adding to some
oold clear boiled coffee, a few
drops
of the tinc–
ture of iodine, which immediately strike
a
deep
blue with the starchy m11.tter of the (wheat) corn;
this
change
does
not
occur
when the
coffee
is
un–
adulterated,
as coffee does
not
contain
any
starch.
Infusion or decoction of coffee is a wholesome
and nutritive beverage ;
it
diminishes the disposi–
tion to sleep, and hence
it
is
used
by those who
:require to keep awake for study. or other purpo–
S€S.
Medically it.
is
foUlld,
like
tea,
useful
in
some forms of headache, where there is not any
determination of
blood
t.o
the
head ;
and
it
is
also
especially
useful
in
some cases of spasmodic
aathma,
when taken
strong. Liebig and
the
pres–
ent race of
physiological
chemists attribute very
considerable nutritive ?Owers
to
the Caffein con–
tained
µi
coffee ; their theories are partly bor.u
out
by
the following
facts,
which so
fully
set forth
the value of coffee as a beverage, that we are
in–
duced to copy them. At the Academy of Scien–
ces at Paris, M. Gasparin
read
a paper in wbicll
• he showed that the miners of Charleroi preserve
their health and
bodily
vigor on a diet contain–
ing
scarcely half the- amount of nourishment of
that
of any other class
·or
laborers in Europe.
This diet consists
daily
of about three pints of
coffee, two pounds
of
bread, two ounces of butter,
about a pound and
a.
half
of potatoes and legumi-
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