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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE Nature, Quality, and Mo&s;t Excellent Vertues OF COFFEE.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is a Berry that groweth upon little Trees or Shrubs onely in the De&s;arts of <HI>Arabia,</HI> and is carried from thence throughout all the Grand Seigniors Dominions, which they make in|to a Drinke with water (after it is dried and powdred) of which they drink at all times, as well at meals as at other times, as hot as po&s;&s;ible it can be indured, &amp;c.</P>
<P>The Nature and Quality of the Drink called <HI>Coffee,</HI> though it be commonly reported to be of a cold and dry quality, and by tho&s;e who pretend to have much know|ledge thereof: yet I que&s;tion not, when you have well con&s;idered what I have here pre&s;ented you withall, but that you will &s;ee their knowledge to be ignorance; for I &s;hall prove it to be moderately hot and dry; yet &s;up|po&s;e I &s;hould grant, that the Berries when they are raw, or before they are dried or parched, to be cold; yet when it is dried or parched, that cold moi&s;ture is vani&s;hed away. As for example: our Barley, which is the colde&s;t of all our Grains, yet when it is maulted it becometh hot; and Chalk, when it is burned and made into Lime, be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="5 letters"> exceeding hot; (and many more of the like exam|ples I could acquaint you with, but this is &s;ufficient.) The &s;ame may be &s;aid of <HI>Coffee</HI>: the rea&s;on is, becau&s;e the mercurial &s;ub&s;tance, which is the moi&s;t and airy parts (as the Chymi&s;ts &s;o term it) to be evaporated away. Again, they &s;ay <HI>Coffee</HI> doth help Dige&s;tion, and the Gout, Scurvy, and Hypocondriack Winds; which are very true: but if it were cold, it would be &s;o far from curing tho&s;e Di|&s;ea&s;es, that it were even enough to breed them: for the Di&s;ea&s;es are cold, and experience teacheth us that cold things hinder dige&s;tion: likewi&s;e cold things cau&s;eth &s;leep (as you may witne&s;s in Feavers) but this hinders &s;leep; liewi&s;e I affirm it to be hot and dry, becau&s;e <HI>O|pium,</HI> which is cold and moi&s;t, is taken when they have drank plentifully of <HI>Coffee,</HI> for they are contrary or oppo|&s;ite one to the other, for cold things dulls the brain, hot things quickeneth it; cold things hurt the Stomack and Liver, moderate hot and dry things &s;trenghthens them &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>Its VERTuES.</HEAD>
<P>IT being drank at any time, drieth up moi&s;t and wa|teri&s;h humours, and expelleth wind; that's the rea&s;on why tho&s;e people that are troubled with tho&s;e humours in their bowels, are by it provoked to &s;tool; it very much &s;trengthneth the Liver, and is as true an Hepatical Medi|cine as any is, it being moderately binding and clean&s;ing; it helpeth tho&s;e that have the Drop&s;ie by its drying qual|lity; it helpeth the Jaundice, Scirrh of the Liver, and ob|&s;tructions of the &s;ame, by its clean&s;ing quality; its al&s;o good again&s;t the Itch, Scabs, and corruption of blood; it mightily refre&s;heth the Heart and Vitals; it is a true Cor|dial; it helpeth &s;wooning, palpitation, and weakne&s;s of the heart. In the &s;tomack, it helpeth want of Appetite, Concoction, Pains in the Stomack, called <HI>Dolor ventriculis,</HI> and the Di&s;ea&s;e called <HI>Cholera.</HI> In fine, it exceedingly &s;trengthneth the Stomack in the Brain, it helpeth all cold, moi&s;t, and drow&s;ie di&s;tempers, as the <HI>Coma, Lethar+gii, C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="5 letters">,</HI> and <HI>Appoplexy, Catalep&s;is, Pal&s;ie, Convul&s;ion, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">+ling-Sickne&s;s, Trembling, Melanchioly, Catarrhe,</HI> or <HI>Defluxi|on</HI> and pains in the head: The Steem is good for <HI>Rheumes</HI> in the Eyes, and for Pains and Noi&s;e in the Ears, and for dulne&s;s of Hearing; it is good for the falling down of the Pallat, and for the <HI>Squinzie,</HI> if from a cold Rheume; it is good for difficulty of breathing, the <HI>Con&s;umption, Pti&s;ick,</HI> and all Rheumes falling upon the Lungs. Note, if the Matter or Phlegme be thick, then &s;weeten it with Sugar-Candy to humect it. Its good again&s;t all <HI>Hypocondriack Winds</HI>; for the <HI>Scurvy</HI>; and for pains of the <HI>Spleen.</HI> It gently purgeth by Urine; a good Drink for tho&s;e that are troubled with the <HI>Stone</HI> in the Reins or Bladder; al&s;o for &s;toppage of Urine, and the <HI>Strangury,</HI> and for the <HI>Chloro&s;is, White Feaver, White Jaundice,</HI> commonly called the <HI>Green-&s;ickne&s;s.</HI> Its excellent good to prevent Mi&s;car|riage; it is good again&s;t the <HI>Gout, Sciatica,</HI> and for all Rheumes and Rheumatick Pains in the whole body; it is good again&s;t the <HI>Cholick, Iliack Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> and for <HI>Fluxes</HI>; good again&s;t the <HI>Worms</HI>; art thou &s;urfeited with Glutton|ny or Drunkenne&s;s, then let this be thy common Drink; do you eat much Fruit, then drink much of this. In the Spring when Humours do increa&s;e, then make good u&s;e of this. In Summer, when thy Appetite is &s;mall, and thy Dige&s;tion weak, then of <HI>Coffee</HI> maye&s;t thou partake. This Drink may be&s;t agree with our Con&s;titutions onely in the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter; and as to the time of the day, at any time till within two or three hours of your going to bed, for its operation will not la&s;t above two or three hours. You may not fear any hurt by the due and moderate u&s;e of it.</P>
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<P>IT is an Herb that groweth in <HI>China</HI> and <HI>Japonia</HI> it is moderately hot and binding; this whol&s;ome Herb pre&s;erveth in perfect health till very old age; it maketh the Body active and lu&s;ty; it helpeth Head-ach and hea|vine&s;s thereof, Lippitude, Di&s;tillations, and difficulty of breathing, weakne&s;s of the Ventricle, Pains of the Bow|els, La&s;&s;itude; it is al&s;o good for the Stone, and for any &s;harp Rheumes what&s;oever, &amp;c.</P>
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<L>To rai&s;e our <HI>Coffee</HI> in a Ver&s;e or two,</L>
<L>Is more then all the peopled World can do;</L>
<L>Who&s;e rare tran&s;cendent Vertues &s;o extend,</L>
<L>It cannot be within a Poem penn'd.</L>
<L>Let this &s;uffice (though many it di&s;plea&s;es)</L>
<L>Our whol&s;ome Liquor helpeth mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es.</L>
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<BYLINE>By <HI>Robert Morton.</HI></BYLINE>
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