COFFEA TOSTA.
Preparation,
Infusion of the well-roasted berries. A decoction of raw Coffea furnishes a preparation very rich
in Coffeïnum; an infusion of the roasted Coffea contains some
Coffeïnum (the amount varying with the roasting), but much of the
alkaloid is changed into “Coffeone” (to which the aroma is
due). This Coffeone is obtained free from the alkaloid by distilling an
infusion of roasted Coffea; some effects of this distillate are here
included.
Authorities.
1,
Zimmerman (from Wibmer), effects of two cups more than usual; 2, Willis, from ibid., general effects; 3, Hoffmann, ibid., effects of several cups
of strong coffee; 4, Kapper, Zeit.
f. H. K., 4, 194, a woman took (for suppression of menstruation) an
infusion of about 3 ounces three evenings in succession; 5, Höring, Wurt. Corr. Bl., 1831, Frank’s
Mag., 2, 68, gradually increasing doses to 30 cups of strong coffee a
day; 6, Träschel, Frank’s Mag., 1,
41, a man drank 32 cups within an hour, containing 8 ounces of berries; 7, Observations and experiments from
Boecker’s Beiträge; 8,
Lamare-Picquot, proving on self, with cold infusion taken in the
morning, in bed, fasting, Études Expérimentales, etc., sur l’action
dynamique du Café, Paris, 1864; 9,
Curschmann, an anæmic woman took an infusion of 250 grms., Deutsch.
Klin., 1873; 10, Wood, chronic
effects of a single cup, in the morning, N. A. J. of Hom., 12, 248; 11, Dr. Lindsley (New York City), MSS., took
for a proving 3 cups of strong coffee, three mornings in succession; 12, Dr. J. Lehman instituted a series of
experiments as follows: placing two men on strict diet, he examined the
urine daily, with especial attention to amount of urea, phosphates, and
sodium chloride, for two weeks or more, after which, the men were
allowed 4 glasses of strong coffee instead of water; subsequently
experiments were instituted with distilled coffee (“Coffeone“), and also with the alkaloid; 13, Dr. H. V. Miller, effects of two cups, N.
A. J. of Hom., N. S., 4, 87; 14,
Marvaud, Aliments d’Épargne, effects of infusion (taken cold for sphygmographic tracings), and also
of distilled coffee (“Coffeone”); 15,
Dr. E. M. Hale, effects of a cup of intensely strong coffee, H. Month.,
9, 465; 16, Dr. Œhme, daily use of
coffee for breakfast, in a man of forty-five, of late unused to C., N.
A. J. of Hom., N. S., 3, 418.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► An agreeable
mental excitement, causing wakefulness, [14].
► Completely developed delirium
tremens, [5]. [Following a
rheumatic attack, with great prostration and weakness.] ► Great loquacity, [13]. ► Love
for family, [13]. ► Desire to perform good deeds intensified
(Benevolence excited), [13]. ► Veneration for Supreme Being, [13]. ►
Anxiety, [12]. ► A kind of fearfulness, which seems
unendurable, [1]. ► Timidity, and fear of sudden death; this
fear sometimes occasions trembling from head too foot (secondary
effect), [13]. ► Intellectual. [10.] ►
Brain feels clear, and is very active, [13].
► The intellectual faculties chiefly
stimulated are the imagination and the memory, [14]. ► The
power of judgment is increased, [14].
► Attention is more alive, [14]. ►
Feels impelled to push things; wants to keep going ahead and doing
something, [13]. ► It gives rise to a need of creative
activity, a vivacity of thought, a versatility and ardor of desire, more
favorable to the exaggerated expression of ideas previously formed, than
to the quiet examination of new conceptions (Moleschott), [14]. ►
Symptoms would come suddenly; and took away all mental energy, [10]. ►
Somewhat unconscious (after two hours), [9].
HEAD.
►
Vertigo. ► Vertigo, [1]; (after half an hour), [7], [12].
► Vertigo so that she was unable to
stand, [6]. [20.] ►
Vertigo, with whirling sensation in head, occasioning a general faint
feeling, with aggravation, when thinking; has to banish reflection; with
vertigo, burning in stomach; vertigo partially relieved by a change of
position (secondary effect), [13].
► Swimming or vertiginous feeling, [10]. ►
Sensation as if everything in the head were going in slow circles, now
in one direction, now in another; with incessant noises in the ears, [4]. ►
General Head. ► Rush of
blood to the head, [6]. ► Violent headache, [6]. ► Forehead.
► Sensation of heaviness in forehead
over eyes (secondary effect), [13].
► Parietals. ► Sensation as though a piece of lead were
nailed to the parietal bones, which every motion of the head aggravates,
[4]. ►
Occiput. ► Stinging pain
into locality of amativeness on left side, [13].
EYE.
►
Blue rings around the eyes, [4]. ► Lids. ►
Conjunctiva of the lids slightly red, especially towards the margin;
conjunctiva of the bulb slightly injected in the canthi and corners, [4]. ►
Pupil. [30.] ► Iris contracted but sensitive, [4]. ►
Vision. ► Intolerance of
the candlelight; it seems surrounded by a dim broad halo, causing
painful pressure in the eyebrows, [4].
► Sensation as though a fog were
before the eyes, [4]. ► Muscæ volitantes, [10]. ►
Aggravation of the myopia, [16].
EAR.
►
Every step and every loud word is painfully felt in the ears, [4]. ►
Incessant noises in the ears, [4].
► Ringing in the ears, [4]. ►
Roaring, buzzing, and singing in the ears, [10]. ► Sounds
as of pounding of bell-ringing in the distance, [10].
FACE.
[40.]
► Paleness of face, [8]. ►
Countenance very pale, and had an anxious expression (after two hours), [9]. ►
Pale as a corpse, [7]. ► Face waxy pale, [4]. ► Face
very puffy, as if dropsical, waxy, pale-yellow, [4].
MOUTH.
►
*He was seized with such an intense pain in the teeth of the right lower
jaw (not decayed) that it drove him nearly crazy. He came to
my office after midnight to get relief. He had already observed that no application relieved the pain but cold water. So soon
as the water became warm in the mouth, the pain returned, [15]. ►
Lips and tongue pale and dry.
THROAT.
►
Spasmodic contraction of the throat, [6].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Aversion to
all food; she is able to take only small quantities of water, [4]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Nausea, with faintness, [4]. [50.] ►
Nausea in the stomach, and ineffectual efforts to vomit, [4]. ►
Vomiting with difficulty (soon), [6].
► Stomach. ► Distension in the epigastric region,
tympanitic, extremely sensitive to touch, less so to pressure, [4]. ►
Tension in the stomach, so that she is obliged to loosen the clothes, [4]. ►
Sensation of heaviness in cardiac region (secondary effect), [13]. ►
Great fulness in epigastrium, and partial loss of appetite (secondary
effect), [13]. ► Cold water and cold food aggravate the
distress in epigastrium and left chest (secondary effect), [13].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ►
Painfulness of the hypochondria, [4].
► Extreme sensitiveness of the
hepatic region, [4]. ► General Abdomen. ► Abdomen swollen and hard, especially in
the region of the bladder, which was very sensitive to touch (fifth
day), [6]. [60.] ►
Painful tympanitic distension of the abdomen, [4]. ►
Rumbling in the bowels causing warmth, painful, obliging her to bend up
and press with the hands, [4]. ► Pain in the left upper portion of the
abdomen, just below the spleen, not affected by pressure, [6]. ►
Sticking pains in the abdomen (second day), [6].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Hæmorrhoids, [1]. ► Discharge of exceedingly bright blood,
every morning with the regular stool, [16].
STOOL.
►
Diarrhœa. ► Frequent
stools, with tenesmus (after two hours), [9].
► Copious evacuations of the bowels,
after the first dose, followed by constipation, [4]. ►
Constipation. ►
Constipation (secondary effect), [13].
► It sometimes accelerates the
peristaltic motion, but in many cases (especially in weak persons)
constipation follows, [7]. [70.] ► No
stool during the first two days, [7].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► At close of
micturition, a slight milky discharge (probably prostatic), attended
with a smarting or burning sensation at orifice of urethra; afterwards,
cutting pains below the bladder (in sphincter vesicæ, or region of
prostate gland), (secondary effect), [13].
► Constant tickling in the urethra,
which was very annoying, [4]. ► Frequent desire to urinate, with passage
of scanty pale urine, [4]. ► Excessive urging, with inability to
urinate, [6]. ► Micturition. ►
Frequent micturition (secondary effect), [13].
► Increased secretion and discharge
of urine, with diminished specific gravity (after two hours), [9]. ►
Profuse and colorless urine (secondary effect), [13]. ► Amount
of urine increased 68 c. c. per day; urea diminished 6.5 grammes;
phosphates diminished 1 gramme; sodium chloride diminished 2.4 grammes, [12]. ►
Amount of urine increased 355 c.c., urea diminished 7.1 grammes, c.c.;
phosphoric acid diminished 1.6 grammes; sodium chloride increased 1
gramme. (Coffeone), [12]. ► Amount of urine increased 370 c.c. per
day; urea diminished 9.4 grammes; phosphoric acid diminished 1.3
grammes; sodium chloride diminished 1 gramme, [12]. [80.]
Normal Urine
Urine after a Coffee diet.
Amount in 24 hours
1364.500 Grs.
1739.750
Urea,
22.275 Grs.
12.585
Uric acid,
0.578 Grs.
0.402
Phosphoric acid,
1.291 Grs.
0.854
(Boecker and Lehman, average from numerous
experiments.)►
Ischuria for many days; she was almost
unable to urinate, and could only evacuate the bladder after frequent
attempts, and with passage of a few drops at a time, with much burning
and pressure in the region of the bladder, [6]. ► It
diminishes all the solid constituents of the urine except the earthy
phosphates, [7]. [Conclusions from
a large number of detailed observations and analyses.]
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Weakness of the
sexual power in men, [2]. ► Female. ►
Spasmodic sensation deep in the uterine region; it seems as if something
tried to press outward and could not, because it constantly gave rise to
spasms, [4]. ►
Menstruation increased and prolonged, [1].
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.
► Objective. ►
Rattling respiration, [6]. ► Diminution of the expired water, [7]. ►
Diminution of the amount of expired carbonic acid takes place soon after
drinking Coffee, and is especially noticed after long-continued use of
it, [7]. [Wibmer calls attention
to the fact, that this is the reverse of the condition after taking Senega, in which the amount of carbonic acid
is increased.] ► The amount of
expired carbonic acid is 195, 593.6 cubic centimetres less than normal
during twenty-four hours; this amount seemed really astounding, but is
not so remarkable, seeing that a real dyspnœa follows the use of strong
coffee, [7]. ► Subjective. ►
Much subjective dyspnœa, with quick, labored respiration (after two
hours), [9]. [90.] ► A
real asthma, with oppression of the chest (after half an hour), [7].® 2000
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