COFFEE DRUNKENNESS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9521, 14 September 1896, Page 4

COFFEE DRUNKENNESS.

Coffee drunkenness ia one of the latest dangers which doctors abroad are raising their voices against. Dr. W. Drake, of New York, is one of those who have made a special study of the subject, and he says his observation has shown beyond question that chronic coffee poisoning is much more common than is generally supposed. The symptoms are usually confounded with alcoholic disturbance, because coffee dyspepsia bears a striking resemblance to alcoholic dyspepsia. The 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. Concerning the same evil, Dr Mendel, of

Berlin, has published a clinical study, *•,[., is the moat thorough yet mado, as ho UjT community of coffee drinkerß under hj,Z* stant observation, the working and about Kssen. He found many of t|J_ women who consumed over a pound coffee a week. Tho leading symptom, !J tho ills that afflicted them were profomJ depression of spirits and frequent lieau^u 1 with insomnia. A strong dose of J* 1 * would relieve them for a time, tHfea thV_L ment would return. Tho muscles bec.j£ weak and trembling, and the hands ItemuS when at rest. The victims sultcrcd ously they dared not abandon the drinW of coffee for fear of death. Wl la { 7* wonder, will it be next ? ' "■>