COFFEE AND ITS USES.
When there are in a community epidemics of typhoid fever, cholera, erysipelas, scarlet fever, and the various types of malarial fever, which are transmitted al most entirely through the medium of food ami drink, cotlee is a valuable agent, ami may l>e user! as a drink instead of water. _ It is a valuable agent in assisting in the digestion of food, and aids the blood in taking up more nourishment than it would without, it. It quickens the circulation of the blood and respiration. It is also stimulating and refreshing (due to the caffeine it contains). In tiding over nervousness in emergencies it is a sovereign remedy. As a stimulant and caloric generator in cold weather it is 100 per cent, ahead of whisky or ot her liquors. Asa disinfectant it is one of no small usefulness in the sick chnmlier.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXII, 20 November 1897, Page 697
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145COFFEE AND ITS USES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XXII, 20 November 1897, Page 697
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