This is great, more proof than coffee makes you live longer. And does your doctor know about this?
King Gustaf III’s coffee-kills-which-murderous-twin experiment
http://www.improbable.com/2014/06/22/king-gustaf-iiis-coffee-kills-which-murderous-twin-experiment
“Coffee
drinking was compared with tea drinking in monozygotic twins in 18th
century,” Lars Breimer, BMJ, vol. 312, June 15, 1996, p. 1539. The
author, at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London,
explains:
“One of the more peculiar attempts to throw light on the question of
whether drinking coffee is bad for one’s health’ was carried out in the
18th century by King Gustaf III of Sweden…. A pair of monozygotic twins
had been sentenced to death for murder. Gustaf III commuted their death
sentences to life imprisonment on the condition that one twin drank a
large bowl of tea three times a day and that the other twin drank
coffee. The twin who drank tea died first, aged 83-a remarkable age for
the time. Thus the case was settled: coffee was the less dangerous of
the two beverages. The king, on the other hand, was murdered at a masked
ball in 1792 at the age of 45 and became the subject of an opera by
Verdi.”
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