offee sometimes breeds
melancholy, causes headache, and "maketh lean much." One of these, Dr.
Pocoke, (1659: see chapter III) stated that, "he that would drink it for
livelinesse sake, and to discusse slothfulnesse ... let him use much
sweet meates with it, and oyle of pistaccioes, and butter. Some drink it
with milk, but it is an error, and such as may bring in danger of the
leprosy." Another writer observed that any ill effects caused by coffee,
unlike those of tea, etc., ceased when its use was discontinued. In this
connection it is interesting to note that in 1785 Dr. Benjamin Mosely,
physician to the Chelsea Hospital, member of the College of Physicians,
etc., probably having in mind the popular idea that the Arabic original
of the word coffee meant force, or vigor, once expressed the hope that
the coffee drink might return to popular favor in England as "a cheap
substitute for those enervating teas and beverages which produce the
pernicious habit of dram-drinking."

About 1628, Sir Thomas Herbert (1606-1681), English traveler and writer,
records among his observations on the Persians that:

"They drink above all the rest _Coho_ or _Copha_: by Turk and Arab
called _Caphe_ and _Cahua_: a drink imitating that in the Stigian
lake, black, thick, and bitter: destrain'd from _Bunchy_, _Bunnu_,
or Bay berries; wholesome, they say, if hot, for it expels
melancholy ... but not so much regarded for those good properties,
as from a Romance that it was invented and brew'd by Gabriel ... to
restore the decayed radical Moysture of kind hearted Mahomet."[55]

In 1634, Sir Henry Blount (1602-82), sometimes referred to as "the
father of the English coffee house," made a journey on a Venetian galley
into the Levant. He was invited to drink _cauphe_ in the presence of
Amurath IV; and later, in Egypt, he tells of being served the beverage
again "in a porcelaine dish". This is how he describes the drink in
Turkey:[56]

They have another drink not good at meat, called _Cauphe_, made of
a _Berry_ as big as a small _Bean_, dried in a Furnace, and beat to
Pouder, of a Soot-colour, in taste a little bitterish, that they
seeth and drink as hot as may be endured: It is good all hours of
the day, but especially morning and evening, when to that purpose,
they entertain themselves two or three hours in _Cauphe-houses_,
which in all Turkey abound more than _Inns_ and _Ale-ho