Coffee Drinking

There are sonie persons wbo indulge to a considerable excess in coffee drinking, and many more wbo go to even greater excess in the use of tea. It has accordiogly been contended by some abstainers f rom these two spbst anees that theyare capable of generating a form of inebriety corresponding to etherism. Unquestionably intemperate tea and coffee drinking will give rise to serious mischief. The inordiuate consumer of strong tea may become a dyspeptic wreek, a sleepless hypochondriac, with a deorepit nervous system, the victim of a deep, intense rnelancholy, with, in eome cases, a suicidal tendency. The immoderate indulger in coffee, black and stroDg, may lose all appetite for healthy food, eat little, suffer from tremors, acute neuralgio and other pains, excessive thirst, agonizing headache and a feeling of intolerable dryness and heat. He may become pinched and emaciated, have a feeble circulation and a constant fear of falling, with a blurred visión, as if looking through light brownish media. These, however, are the symptoms of tea and coffee poisoning. They bear witness, so to speak, to theine and caffeine intoxication, minus the aneesthesia and paralysis of alcoholic drunkenness. Dr. Kerr, in his practice, bas never seen an nncontrollable oraving for tea or coffee to which all natural affections and duties were subordinated. He is therefore unable to recognize these phases of excessive drinking as manifestations of narcomania, the disease which is characterized by an overpowering impulse