Happy Sunday morning. The Vertue of the COFFEE-Drink’ - the first advert for coffee, London, 1642.

Nice that they warned it disrupts sleep if drunk after supper. The claim for tuberculosis prevention though...😏

I’m going to question their assertion that coffee doesn’t have a laxative effect!

Fascinating. Can you say where this advert appeared and which archive holds the original please?

You can imagine the nuclear power of coffee hitting society. The authorities hated it - they figured that in unstable times, a drunk revolutionary was easier to control than a hyped-up one - and tried to ban coffee-houses. And now we know why Charles II’s era was one of legendary mania & partying.

This is excellent. And I have drunk my half a pint already!!

There's some evidence that coffee really does help a little for gout