Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — Stimulants Used by the Race. [ARTICLE]

Stimulants Used by the Race.

It is estimated that coffee, both beans and leaves, is drank by 60,000,000 of the human family. Tea of all kinds is used by 500,000,000 and opium by 400,000,000; alcohol, in its various forms, by 500.000,000 of the human race. Tobacco is probably used by at least 700,000,000 or 800,000,000. These startling facts indicate a large proportion of the race using some substances that are either stimulants or narcotics. The work of the physiologist, in the future, will be to determine the true place in nature of these substances, and indicate where their us« ends and abqse begins.