Physianthropy : or, the home cure and eradication of disease / by Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace and Lex et Lux.
- Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
- Date:
- [1885]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Physianthropy : or, the home cure and eradication of disease / by Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace and Lex et Lux. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![same injurious or objectionable foods, <fcc., are often taken •with impunity in ordinary times by those who live most irregularly without any seeming disturbance to health; but during an epidemic of Cholera few such could do so without suffering less or more. We feel there must be something more than ordinary going on, over and above, to excite to a Cholera attack, and which must be, in the first place, in the air; because, all other conditions were the same before that mysterious “blue mist ” made its appear- ance among us. ✓S Coffee I have proven to be the greatest accelerator of digestion known. All effects of over-crowding the stomach with fatty meats, rich gravies, and alcoholic stimulants are at once corrected by it. The French, as well as other , nations, use it much—many of them habitually—after / dinner, as an aid to digestion. It is also a very common thing with many to mix rum and other stimulants with coffee, which experience teaches them neutralises the other- wise injurious effects which alcohol produces. Coffee is, in fact, the great functional corrector of the liver, restraining any sudden inordinate secretion or flow of bile to the normal standard on the one hand, and causing an immediate and healthy secretion of it where it has been suddenly, partially, or totally suspended, as in Cholera or diarrhoea, on the other; and this it will do in the twentieth to the fiftieth part of the time of any other known remedy, such as calomel, and that without other than beneficial after-effects, which is an impossibility with the ordinary deleterious drugs commonly used. For Prophylactic or Preventive Treatment I would advise three minims of coffea to be taken three times a day, or, at least, night and morning; but, for all ordinary purposes, I believe if we use ])ure coffee for break- fast, and at tea-time, prepared pretty strong in the ordinary way, that it would be utterly impossible for us to take Cholera, provided we lived temperately, and confined our- selves chiefly to farinaceous food, with milk, eggs, and butter in moderation ; always avoiding fermented breads,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28112003_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
