COFFEE IN TYPHOID FEVER.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5061, 2 April 1885, Page 1

COFFEE IN TYPHOID FEVER.

Dr Guillasse, of the French army, in »' recent paper on typhoid feTersiyft :-^ " Coffee has given in unhoped for satin- ';.- faction':'■;. after;. "having dispensed it,- we find, to our great surprise, that its action' is as prompt as it isVdecisive; r No: sooner have pur patients taken a few tablespopnfu|B,of it thaa their features become, relaxed ancl theycome to'their, sen siis.f; The; ttoxifdif.,'.)■. the improvement isV 'such that, : we^a.reteDapted- to look upoin coffee as a specific against typhoid feje*-: Under its influence the stupor is dispelled, and the patientV rouses ; from the state of somnolency - in :/. which he ;has been since :: the inrasion of.the disease. Soon.all the. .functions / take their natural' course, and he enters upon convalescence." Dr Guillasse gires ' to an adult two of: three tablespopnfuls pfi ..strong Viack^^ coffee dvfity two hours, alternated with one or two tablespoohfuls of ;claret ;or Burgundy v:wine.' ': A c,little ■ "■■' lemonade or citrate of magnesia should bo |taken dailyV and after a while, quinine. . Prom the fact that malaise and cerebral fever appears first; the doctor regards' typhoid fever as a •nerrous disease, and the coffee acting on the nertes is ; peculialy indicated in the, early stages before local complications arise, s ; „■ -