RT Journal
T1 KAffee und kaffein.
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1939
FD November 1
VO 64
IS 5
SP 1131
OP 1132
DO 10.1001/archinte.1939.00190050237020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1939.00190050237020
AB This book contains the material presented in the symposium on coffee and caffein at the meeting of the German Pharmacologic Society in Berlin in 1938The original papers by W. Straub, O. Eichler and W. Stepp appeared in Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archiv für experimentelle Pathologie und Pharmakologie (190: 118-170 [Sept.] 1938). Aside from the exhaustive way in which the literature in the field is presented (484 references), the chief value of the book lies in the highly critical way in which the author attempts to evaluate published and often accepted "facts" and in his presentation of unsolved problems.The book has chapters on the history and preparation of coffee as a beverage, on the actions of coffee and caffein on the central nervous system, circulation, kidneys, metabolism and organs of reproduction and on caffeinism and tolerance. There is an interesting discussion of the action of caffein during muscular exercise.This publication is