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Ever since I started drinking coffee regularly I always had it plain and in the morning on pretty much an empty stomach after drinking my lemon water. Strong black coffee in the morning was the most important of the tools I used to overcome being exposed to mold for a year. I wonder if i had been drinking strong black coffee while in that house wouldve prevented the misery. I'll never know for sure but I will guess probably.
1886 News Paper article
:Years ago some studious German made
the observation, the correctness of which he
endeavored (and, to a great extent, also suc
ceeded) to establish by statistical data that
coffee, if taken early in the morning on an
empty stomach, acted as a preventive against
infectious and mainly epidemic disease. He
quoted a great number of cases where indivi
duals accustomed to drink a cup of hot coffee
for breakfast had either escaped an epidemic
of typhoid then ravaging the part of Germany
in which the observer lived, or if attacked
by the disease contracted it in a much milder
form, while all those who died from the
disease had not been in the habit of taking
coffee in the morning.
Rest of the newspaper article can be read here
Also:
Coffee as Disinfectant (1873)
“Numerous experiments with roasted coffee prove that it is the most powerful means, not only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but of actually destroying them. A room in which meat in an advanced degree of decomposition had been kept for some time, was instantly deprived of all smell on an open coffee roaster being carried through it, containing a pound of coffee newly roasted.
In another room, exposed to the effluvium occaisoned by the clearing out of a dung pit, so that sulpherreted hydrogen and ammonia in great quantities could be chemically detected, the stench was completely removed in half a minute, on the employment of three ounces of fresh-roasted coffee, whilst other parts of the house were permantently cleared of the same smell by simply being traveresed with the coffee roaster, although the cleansing of the dung-pit continued for several hours after.
The best mode of using coffee as a disinfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound it in a mortar and the roast the powder on a moderately heated iron plate, until it assumes a dark brown tint, when it is fit for use. Then sprinkle it in sinks and cesspools, or lay it on aplate in the room which you wish to have purified. Coffee acid or coffee oil acts more readily in minute quantities.”
Entry 1668, Enquire Within Upon Everything, printed by J & W Rider, 1873
1886 News Paper article
:Years ago some studious German made
the observation, the correctness of which he
endeavored (and, to a great extent, also suc
ceeded) to establish by statistical data that
coffee, if taken early in the morning on an
empty stomach, acted as a preventive against
infectious and mainly epidemic disease. He
quoted a great number of cases where indivi
duals accustomed to drink a cup of hot coffee
for breakfast had either escaped an epidemic
of typhoid then ravaging the part of Germany
in which the observer lived, or if attacked
by the disease contracted it in a much milder
form, while all those who died from the
disease had not been in the habit of taking
coffee in the morning.
Rest of the newspaper article can be read here
Also:
Coffee as Disinfectant (1873)
“Numerous experiments with roasted coffee prove that it is the most powerful means, not only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but of actually destroying them. A room in which meat in an advanced degree of decomposition had been kept for some time, was instantly deprived of all smell on an open coffee roaster being carried through it, containing a pound of coffee newly roasted.
In another room, exposed to the effluvium occaisoned by the clearing out of a dung pit, so that sulpherreted hydrogen and ammonia in great quantities could be chemically detected, the stench was completely removed in half a minute, on the employment of three ounces of fresh-roasted coffee, whilst other parts of the house were permantently cleared of the same smell by simply being traveresed with the coffee roaster, although the cleansing of the dung-pit continued for several hours after.
The best mode of using coffee as a disinfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound it in a mortar and the roast the powder on a moderately heated iron plate, until it assumes a dark brown tint, when it is fit for use. Then sprinkle it in sinks and cesspools, or lay it on aplate in the room which you wish to have purified. Coffee acid or coffee oil acts more readily in minute quantities.”
Entry 1668, Enquire Within Upon Everything, printed by J & W Rider, 1873