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Coffee and Health The first historically reliable reference to coffee is by Rhazes, a doctor who lived in the city of Raj in Persian Iraq during the years 850 - 920 A.D. He talks about a bean called bunchum and discusses its healing properties in a manner which leads to the belief that coffee might have been known to medicine for over a thousand years. It was originally used only for medicinal purposes; then, monks began drinking it to keep them awake through long hours of prayers and the left over coffee was given to the common people. Coffee rapidly became a popular social beverage in th...