Category: History - Other
Mode of use by the Incas—Von Tschudi on its use in Peru—Pöppig on its use as a viaticum in Huanuco—Effects produced by the Spanish conquest of Peru—Condemnation of its use—Owners of mines encourage its use—Continued increase in production.
Mode of use by the Incas—Von Tschudi on its use in Peru—Pöppig on its use as a viaticum in Huanuco—Effects produced by the Spanish conquest of Peru—Condemnation of its use—Owner...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.Von Tschudi, “Travels in Peru”—The custom of masticating Coca—Facilitates mountain ascents and any hard labour—Pöppig on average yield—Intemperate use of Coca—Coca-craving among...
5. CHAPTER V.Mode of cultivation—Amount of crop—Suitable soils—Mode of collection and drying—Mode of use by Peruvians—Description of the leaves—Effects of the leaves—Relief of hunger, a nutr...
6. CHAPTER VI.Carl Scherzer’s narrative—Fuentes on its value to miners, travellers, and those exposed to wet and cold—Flores on its use by the Indians of Bolivia—Martius on its use in Brazil—...
7. CHAPTER VII.Dr. Rusby on its modern cultivation in Bolivia—Quality of the leaves—The harvest—Diseases of the Coca-plants—Mode of drying and exporting the leaves—Probable results of the expo...
8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.Cocaina—Chemical constitution—Mode of preparation—Tests and solubilities—Bougies—Ceratum—Collodium—Emplastrum—Oleatum Oleum cum Cocainâ—Suppositories—Pessaries—Tabellæ—Unguentum...
15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.The medical interest which has centred in Cocaine as a local anæsthetic during the last few years, has gradually become diffused as “public opinion,” the more so, of late, as it...
17. CHAPTER I.The earliest accounts extant of Coca are contained in the writings of the historians who treat of the Spanish conquests in South America in the sixteenth century, and of Spanish...
18. CHAPTER II.The employment of Coca as a masticatory goes back to the time of the first Incas, being used in their religious rites as an offering to the sun; the sacrificing priest never con...
19. CHAPTER III.Coca has not been official in any but the last Codex, and last United States, British, Austrian, Belgian, and Chilian Pharmacopœias, and although mentioned by Guibourt and tried...
20. CHAPTER IV.All the mountain Indians,[10] Von Tschudi states, are addicted more or less to the practice of masticating Coca. Each man consumes, on an average, between an ounce and an ounce...
21. CHAPTER V.“The cultivation of _Erythoxylon Coca_, as carried on in Bolivia in the present day, does not appear to differ from that which prevailed previous to the conquest; and the provin...
22. CHAPTER VI.“A Scotchman named Campbell, who was settled as a merchant at Tacna in Bolivia, and with whom I travelled to Europe from Lima, informed me that a few years before, being engaged...
23. CHAPTER VII.The most recent account of the cultivation of Coca is given by Henry H. Rusby, M.D., who, for more than two months, was engaged in the study of the Coca plant and its products i...
24. CHAPTER VIII.“The Erythroxylon Coca, a plant which grows in moist and woody regions on the eastern slopes of the Andes, is highly valued by the inhabitants of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia, not o...
25. CHAPTER IX.By recent botanical authorities, the genus Erythroxylon is classed in the natural order _Linacæ_, tribe _Erythroxyleæ_. The genus contains a number of tropical plants growing pr...
26. CHAPTER X.The Hon. Richard Gibbs, U.S. minister to Bolivia, for some years resident at La Paz, gives a similar account to that of Weddell of the cultivation of Coca at the present day.[29...
27. CHAPTER XI.Notwithstanding the scepticism expressed in Weddell’s last sentence quoted (p. 23), and his attributing much of the effects said to be produced by Coca on the Indians to the for...
28. CHAPTER XII.Coca leaves are exhausted by percolation with proof spirit, the second part of percolate concentrated and dissolved in the first portion, and the strength adjusted so that 1 oun...
29. CHAPTER XIII.Coca has been praised as a nervine and muscular tonic, preventing waste of tissue, appeasing hunger and thirst, relieving fatigue, and aiding free respiration, and as being usef...
30. CHAPTER XIV.This now important alkaloid, obtained from Coca, was first isolated by Niemann in 1860. From analysis he gave it the formula of C₃₂H₂₀NO₈ (old notation), but Lossen in 1862 assi...
31. CHAPTER XV.The curious property cocaine possesses of producing local anæsthesia was even noted by the discoverer of the alkaloid—Niemann, who, so far back as 1860, wrote: “It produces temp...
32. CHAPTER XVI.Cocaine is a mydriatic; slightly raises the temperature, quickens respiration, and pulse is more frequent; by long use, sleep is longer and more profound. Improves nutrition, us...