Coca and its therapeutic application
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Angelo Mariani, 1892. — 92 p.A concise study of the botanical character and culture of coca; its history, properties and uses; physiological researches about coca, with a special chapter on cocaine; and therapeutic applications of coca. Written by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist, who created Vin Mariani, a tonic and patent medicine made from Bordeaux wine treated with coca leaves. The last ten pages is a list of physicians, printed in four columns, who formally endorsed Vin Mariani as valuable and reliable.