Category: History - Other
Coca is indigenous to South America. The different botanists disagree as to which exact family it should be assigned. Linnæus, De Candolle, Payer, Raymundi of Lima, Huntk, and others, place it in the family of the _Erythroxyleæ_, of which there exists but one genus, the _Eryth...
Immediately after the importation of the Coca leaf into Europe, we conceived the plan, the outcome of the request of many physicians, of making preparations from Coca. _Vin Mari...
3. CHAPTER III.It is to empiricism and that alone that we owe our first knowledge of the physiological action of Coca. There is nothing surprising in that, for empiricism is nothing more, in r...
2. CHAPTER II.Coca has been known from time immemorial in South America. At the time when Pizarro landed on the Peruvian coast, the leaf of Coca was held in great esteem among the natives; it...
1. CHAPTER I.Coca is indigenous to South America. The different botanists disagree as to which exact family it should be assigned. Linnæus, De Candolle, Payer, Raymundi of Lima, Huntk, and o...
4. CHAPTER IV.Gazeau advises the use of Coca for inflammations of the mouth and gums. Pain is assuaged, ptyalism removed, and the inflammation itself favorably influenced. He cites, in suppor...