Gustav III's coffee experiment
The coffee experiment Gustav III. is said to have been an experiment on the health effects of coffee consumption . According to anecdotal tradition, it is said to have been carried out in the second half of the 18th century .
Accordingly, the Swedish King Gustav III. concerned by the alleged dangers of coffee and brought up twins , both death row criminals, for an experiment. King Gustav III wanted to find out if coffee was more dangerous than tea . One of the felons had to drink a lot of coffee, the other a lot of tea. In fact, both survived the royal test. Two physicians who were supposed to supervise the experiment died before the experiment was completed, as did King Gustav III, the latter, however, from an assassination attempt . According to the anecdote, the tea drinker finally died first - at the age of 83; the exact age of death of the surviving coffee drinker is not known.
Web links
- Coffee - rat poison or miracle medicine? - Linné on line - Uppsala University (Swedish and English)
- Nutrition: Die Wunderbohne, Spiegel article from 2006
- Coffee - rat poison or miracle medicine? (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav III's odödliga coffee experiment (Swedish)
- ↑ The New Cold War: The Struggle for Raw Materials - A SPIEGEL book. Natural resources. Coffee. Page 283/284