Coffee Drunkness.

Hastings Standard, Issue 161, 2 November 1896, Page 4

Coffee Drunkness.

Coffee drunkness is 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 p. striking resemblance to alcoholic dyspepsia. The disgust of food increases in revere 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, which is the most thorough yet made, as he had a community of coffee drinkers under his constant observation, the working women in and about Essen. He found many of these women who consumed over a pound of coffee a week. The leading symtoms of the ills that afflicted them wen; profound depression of spirits and frequent headaches, with insom nia. A strong dose of coffee would relieve them for a time; then the ailment would return. The muscles became weak and trembling, and the hands trembled when at rest. The vieti" s'i tiered so seriously they iinre i L not abandon the drinking of coffee for fear of death. "What, we Worn'..will it be next ?