London Medical Record Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...the Dence and Mason process, and is guaranteed to consist solely of the essence or soluble portion of pure English malt, without admixture of any kind. We have given it a careful trial, and are satisfied that it is a reliable preparation. It is taken both by children and adults without the slightest difficulty, and patients always prefer it to cod-liver oil. CONROY'S MALT COFFEE.. The special peculiarity of this coffee is that the malt which has been added to it makes a larger proportion of the extractives contained in the coffee soluble; and soluble in such a form that they are readily digestible. It amounts, in fact, to bringing into solution in an easily available form the nutritive principles and the alkaloids contained in the coffee, so that, instead of being left in the 'grounds', i.e., the insoluble matter, and wasted, they are valuable as forming part of a beverage. This result is obtained by a correct use of malt, which extracts matters from the coffee which would not otherwise be brought into solution. As a coffee, this is a more valuable article than any we have recently examined, but the difficulty which occurs to us in connection with it is, whether it will be allowed to pass into consumption under the new, and as it seems to us absurd, regulations proposed in the new Inland Revenue Act. This is a matter which should be taken up more strongly than it has heretofore been by the makers themselves. Malt coffee certainly does not stand on the same basis as coffee adulterated with chicory. The makers of this preparation are Messrs. Evans, Son, and Co., Hanover Street, Liverpool, and it is to be had retail of chemists and grocers. MISCELLANY. Miss E. A. Ormerod, F.M.S., consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, has been appointed spe...