Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1898 — The Meal-time Drink. [ARTICLE]

The Meal-time Drink.

A Very Important Factor in the Production of Disease. Little do the thousands of American people of today, who are addicted to the insidious habit of coffee and tea drinking, realize how seriously they are undermining the human structure and paving the way for future development of disease, and all through the force of habit. It is a habit, just as much so as that of alcoholic stimulants. In fact, the same poisonous alkaloids abide in coffee and tea as in whisky, alcohol, tobacco, morphine, etc., though not so deadly in character, perhaps, but sufficiently harmful to produce numerous diseases of the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, palpitation of the heart, nervousness, etc. It is fast becoming a habit second only to that of alcoholism. Doubtless, there are those who are loath to believe that the use of these beverages has ever affected their health in any way 1 , though they often complain from the very same disorders of which coffee and tea drinking are the direct cause. They attribute their ailments of the stomach, liver, nerves, etc., to the organs themselves, but never dream of the cause of such organic derangement. Each concoction of poison administered to the nervous system hy the use of coffee or tea, is like adding fuel to the flame, and hence the functional disturbances and finally organic disease. They are the real cause of more sickness than is generally supposed. The fact that Dr. Martin, being a physician, and fully aware of the harmful effects of coffee and tea, led him to experimenting and he finally produced the first cereal coffee ever discovered, the now famous Dr. Martin’s Nervine Coffee, the new food substitute for coffee, absolutely pure, unadulterated preparation of the choicest grains, gluten and rich cereals, nature’s own products. Those he has so harmoniously compounded as to produce a delightful, healthful and delicious coffee-like beverage, which does not contain a particle of ordinary coffee nor dangerous drugs, like many cheap, so-called substitutes. in order to give them a coffee flavor. It is the original substitute, all others are imitations. Perfectly harmless and can be freely given to children or invalids. It makes the nerves strong and the health rugged. One pound goes further than two of ordinary coffee or other substitutes, making it an economical as well as a healthful drink. Sold by all grocers. I lb. 20c, 2 lbs. 35c. Prepared by Nervine Coffee Co., Elkhart, Ind.